Is coughing up white phlegm caused by lung cold or lung heat?

In life, coughing is a very common physical disease for many people. Coughing will not only easily affect normal life, but also easily cause some lung diseases. Coughing is divided into many types. Generally, different cough symptoms will appear due to lung cold and lung heat. Coughing up white phlegm is a manifestation of lung cold, which needs to be treated in time. Eat more cold-dispelling foods in daily life.

Is coughing up white phlegm caused by lung cold or lung heat?

1. Is coughing up white phlegm caused by lung cold or lung heat?

Although lung cold and lung heat are similar in many aspects, if the sputum coughed up by the patient is white, it can be basically determined that the patient is suffering from lung cold disease, and coughing up white sputum will occur when there is cold air in the body. Most of the time, it is due to coughing with phlegm caused by lung heat, and the phlegm coughed up is mostly yellow. You can use this to judge your own disease symptoms.

2. The shape of white sputum caused by lung cold

If there is a lot of cold in the body and accompanied by coughing up phlegm, the phlegm coughed up is generally foamy and relatively thin. If the coughing up of yellow phlegm is caused by lung heat, the phlegm is mostly viscous. Patients with coughing up phlegm can judge their symptoms based on the shape and viscosity of the phlegm in addition to its color.

3. Other methods of differentiation

Patients with lung heat usually cough during the day, and their bodies are full of fire, so their throats are very dry and sore. However, if the cough is caused by lung cold, patients often cough at night, accompanied by changes in their body surface between hot and cold. In addition to judging the disease based on sputum, you can also judge it based on this method.

4. What to do if you have a cough with phlegm caused by lung cold?

Since coughing up white phlegm is caused by lung cold, the first problem is to solve the problem of heavy cold in the body. You can choose some foods that can dispel cold. You can also use traditional Chinese medicine to treat lung cold faster, better and more effectively through some medicines that can dispel cold and relieve cough.

Lung-clearing, phlegm-resolving and cough-relieving decoction for patients with lung heat and dryness:

1. Watercress (or dried Chinese cabbage or Chinese cabbage), southern and northern apricots, and Sichuan Fritillary Soup - Choose any one of the above vegetables, take an appropriate amount and wash it, add 50 cents of southern apricots, 30 cents of northern apricots, 30 cents of Sichuan Fritillary, a few candied dates or half a monk fruit, 300-500g of pork or a pig lung, and about 4L of water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium heat and simmer for another two hours. Add appropriate amount of salt and drink.

2. Apple (or pear or papaya), southern apricot, northern apricot and Fritillaria soup - choose one of the above fruits or mix them together, add 50g of southern apricot, 30g of northern apricot, 30g of Fritillaria, add 300-500g of pork, and cook as above.

3. Mulberry bark and longli leaves stewed with pig lungs - 1 liang of mulberry bark, 5 qian of longli leaves, 1 pig lung, and several candied dates.

4. Stewed Fritillaria cirrhosa with pear or rock sugar - add three grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa, one pear or appropriate amount of rock sugar, put into a stewing pot with a bowl of water, and stew for two hours.

Decoction for warming lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, for patients with lung cold and cough:

1. Erchen Decoction - 2 qian of dried tangerine peel, 2 qian of French pinellia, 3 qian of stemona, 2 qian of coltsfoot flower, 2 slices of ginger.

2. Northern apricot, tangerine peel and crocodile meat soup - 4 qian of northern apricot, 2 qian of tangerine peel, 4 qian of lotus seeds, 5 qian of yam, 200g of crocodile meat, 200g of pork, and 2 slices of ginger.

Lung nourishing soup, suitable for people with lung deficiency, cough and susceptibility to colds:

1. Bufei Yiqi Decoction - 50g each of lily, polygonatum, adenophora, lotus seeds, yam, and pseudoginseng, 3g each of southern apricot and northern apricot.

2. Nourishing Yin and Moistening Lung Soup - 3 grams each of snow fungus and sea coconut, 5 grams each of lily, polygonatum, adenophora, lotus seeds and yam.

The above soup ingredients can also be boiled (or stewed) with water without adding meat, and the effect is the same.