Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "the lungs are the main cough", and lung disease is cough, so the core of cough treatment is to treat the lungs. In addition, the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" proposes that "the five internal organs and six internal organs all make people cough, not only the lungs", which shows that the dysfunction of other internal organs will also lead to coughing, such as the excessive fire of the heart and burning the lung gold will lead to the occurrence of lung fever and cough; the weakness of the spleen and stomach and the lack of spleen and soil will cause the spleen and soil to not produce lung gold, resulting in a long-term cough that does not heal. Therefore, when solving the problem of cough, traditional Chinese medicine mainly regulates the lungs, and combines the specific syndrome differentiation of individual conditions to carry out targeted cough regulatory treatment.
Source: Chinese Traditional Chinese Medicine