Symptoms of Yin Deficiency and Lung Dryness

Yin deficiency and lung dryness is a term in traditional Chinese medicine. It mainly refers to the symptoms of dry and itchy throat and cough in patients during the autumn and winter seasons when the weather is relatively dry. It often causes dry cough without sputum, or cough with blood. It also causes dry skin, decreased urine, and often leads to dry stools. When these symptoms appear, you should pay attention and they can be treated through certain methods.

Symptoms of Yin Deficiency and Lung Dryness

1. Dry cough without sputum, or blood in the sputum, sore throat and hoarseness, tender red tongue with little coating, and thin and rapid pulse. It can be seen in diseases such as pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic pharyngitis, diphtheria, and bronchiectasis.

2. Nosebleeds, dry mouth, lips, nose, throat, and skin, less urine, dry and hard stools, and a thin, dry tongue coating with little fluid. Or there may be slight fever, aversion to wind and cold, no sweat or little sweat, and a floating and rapid or floating and tight pulse.

3. Repeated coughing and coughing up yellow sputum, accompanied by dry mouth, sore throat, constipation, dark urine, fever or wheezing, red tongue, thin yellow or greasy tongue coating, little fluid, slippery or thin pulse.

4. Thirst leading to drinking, constipation, and dry skin. Hoarseness, dry tongue with little saliva, and initial symptoms of a cold such as slight fear of cold, fever, headache, and pain in joints.

1. Pear

Pears are cool in nature, sweet in taste, can clear away heat and resolve phlegm, and are suitable for people with hot coughs. People usually peel the pears, take out the cores, add 1 to 3 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa powder, and stew them in water, twice a day, one pear each time. Or you can choose the method of the late famous doctor Pu Fuzhou, use 3-5 grams of the Chinese medicine ephedra, mash or pound it, then put it into the heart of the pear and steam it for consumption. What are the symptoms of Yin deficiency and lung dryness?

2. Monk Fruit

Luo Han Guo can clear the lungs and relieve cough, and is suitable for people with lung heat cough and wind heat cough. You can use 1 monk fruit and 15 grams of persimmon, decoct in water and drink.

3. Water chestnuts

It can be drunk together with lotus root juice. It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting body fluid, removing dampness and expectorant, cooling blood and detoxifying, and can treat heat disease damaging body fluid, dry mouth and throat, lung heat cough, etc.

4. Figs

Figs can clear away heat, resolve phlegm, and regulate qi, and are suitable for people with wind-heat type cough, excessive phlegm, and chest tightness. "Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine" also records the local folk remedies for treating lung heat, cough and hoarseness. Use 15 grams of figs, boiled in water and mixed with rock sugar for oral administration.

5. Loquat

Loquat is cool in nature, sweet in taste, and can moisten the lungs, reduce phlegm and relieve cough. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" says: "Loquat cures cough and spitting." It is suitable for people with hot cough and spitting yellow purulent sputum. What are the symptoms of Yin deficiency and lung dryness?

6. Citrus

Citrus fruits are cool in nature, sweet and sour in taste, and have the effects of promoting fluid production and relieving cough, moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm, sobering up and promoting diuresis. They are suitable for symptoms such as physical weakness, thirst due to lack of body fluid after fever, and thirst due to alcohol abuse. Squeezing juice or decocting with honey is especially good for treating lung heat and cough.