Lung abscess treatment with traditional Chinese medicine

What is the Chinese medicine treatment for lung abscess? The immunity of patients with lung abscess is very poor during the onset period, and the condition will enter different stages as it progresses. If it is not treated in time, it will cause serious impact on health. If the patient can adopt Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible, and adopt different treatment methods for different conditions, it can help the patient clear away heat and detoxify, remove toxins, discharge pus, relieve cough and resolve phlegm, and resolve blood stasis!

(1) Early stage: The key treatment method is to dispel wind and promote lung function, clear away heat and reduce fire. The applicable Chinese medicine prescription is: Yinqiao Powder Interaction. The therapeutic medicines include honeysuckle tea, tangerine stem, sweet almond, lotus forsythia, mint, schizonepeta, burdock, bamboo leaves, reed root, and licorice. If the patient has a severe fever after the onset of the disease, two kinds of medicinal herbs, bupleurum and houttuynia cordata, should be added during treatment, which have strong effects of clearing away heat and removing fire; patients with headache symptoms should be added with chrysanthemum and white peony root to help the body clear the qi; if there is a lot of sputum when coughing, add trichosanthes and fritillaria to relieve cough and reduce phlegm; if there is severe chest pain, add curcuma and peach kernel to remove blood stasis, unblock meridians and relieve pain.

(2) Carbuncle stage: Treatment methods that can dissipate blood stasis, eliminate carbuncle, and clear away heat and reduce fire should be used. The Chinese medicine prescription that can be chosen is Qianjin Weijing Decoction with added ingredients. The main therapeutic drugs are reed root, coix seed, wax gourd seed, honeysuckle, lotus forsythia, peach sweet almond, platycodon, bupleurum, and scutellaria. Drug interactions: If the heat and toxicity are excessive and the patient has a high fever that has not subsided, Houttuynia cordata root, Taraxacum mongolicum, Patrinia scabra, and Gardenia jasminoides can be added to help the body clear heat, cool blood, and remove toxins; patients with heat and toxic blood stasis and fishy sputum can add Xihuang Pills; patients with chest tightness, shortness of breath, and cough with a lot of sputum can add Trichosanthes kirilowii, Morus alba, and Lepidium membranaceus; for constipation, add Rhizoma Curcumae and Fructus Aurantii Immaturus; patients with severe chest pain can add Fructus Aurantii Immaturus, Curcuma aromatica, Corydalis yanhusuo, and Salvia miltiorrhiza at the same time; patients with hemoptysis should remove peach kernel and add Cortex Moutan and Panax notoginseng powder.

(3) Purulent stage: drugs that can clear away heat and fire, relieve cough, resolve phlegm and discharge pus should be used. Chinese medicine prescriptions often use Platycodon Decoction and Qianjin Weijing Decoction interchangeably. Platycodon grandiflorum, scutellaria baicalensis seed, coix seed, wax gourd seed, fritillaria, poria, bletilla striata, peach kernel, reed imperata root, honeysuckle, and licorice. If the patient has cough with phlegm and pus that is blocked from discharge, it is necessary to add soapberry thorns and bamboo juice; for patients with palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue, cough and phlegm, add raw astragalus to nourish the blood and help discharge the pus; if the amount of hemoptysis is large, add lotus root nodes, moutan bark, raw rehmannia, and cypress leaves to remove blood stasis and promote blood circulation; for patients with constipation, add raw rhubarb to relieve heat and open the bowels.

The above is the traditional Chinese medicine treatment method for lung abscess introduced to you today. Patients with lung abscess must pay attention to taking good care of their daily life after the onset of the disease. First of all, they should stay in bed more, eat more foods with therapeutic effects, eat less spicy foods and foods that help moisture and produce phlegm, drink more water to promote metabolism, and the condition can be improved as soon as possible.