Bronchitis Chinese medicine

Bronchitis is a very common disease. It is usually caused by viral or bacterial infection. The most obvious symptoms of bronchitis are coughing, sputum and asthma. Bronchitis needs to be actively treated. Bronchitis is a relatively serious respiratory infection. If not treated in time, it will cause great harm to your health and will seriously affect your daily life.

Can bronchitis be treated with Chinese medicine?

It can be treated with Chinese medicine. Bronchitis usually presents with nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat and hoarseness. For example, people may experience sore, dry and itchy throat when coughing, and their throat may be swollen and painful. They may cough more violently when talking. These are the symptoms of bronchitis. When combined with respiratory tract infection, asthma (wheezing) symptoms may occur due to congestion and edema of the bronchiolar mucosa, sputum obstruction and stenosis of the bronchial lumen. Bronchitis can cause repeated infections and is prone to repeated respiratory tract infections. At this time, the patient's asthma worsens, the amount of sputum increases significantly and becomes purulent, accompanied by general fatigue, chills, fever, etc. Repeated respiratory tract infections are particularly likely to worsen the condition of elderly patients and must be given full attention.

How to treat bronchitis?

1. To clear the lungs, promote qi and resolve phlegm

Acupuncture is one of the commonly used methods for treating chronic bronchitis. Moxibustion, through acupuncture and moxibustion of corresponding acupoints, with the help of the stimulation of acupuncture on the acupoints and the heat and medicinal effects of moxibustion, can harmonize yin and yang, qi and blood, and adjust the functions of internal organs. It has the effects of tonifying the kidney and spleen, nourishing the lungs and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, supporting positive energy, and enhancing the body's disease resistance. Commonly used acupoints include: Feishu, Fengmen, Lieque, Tiantu, Dazhui, Feishu, Xinshu, etc.

2. Cupping

Cupping therapy refers to selecting relevant acupoints and allowing the cups to be adsorbed on the acupoints to produce extensive stimulation, forming local congestion or congestion. According to the principle of "heat should be treated quickly" in traditional Chinese medicine, the heat evil is stimulated by the cupping technique to expel it quickly, so as to achieve the purpose of clearing away heat, so that the internal yang heat evil can penetrate the body surface and be finally expelled from the body to clear the stasis heat and swelling toxins in the body.

3. Chinese medicine tea therapy

Tea therapy recipe: Orange and yellow gardenia tea

Five kinds of ingredients that can be used as medicine and food: 3 grams of tangerine peel, 3 grams of gardenia, 5 grams of licorice, 3 grams of monk fruit, and 3 grams of puffed sea. The method of making tangerine peel and yellow gardenia tea is to mash the ingredients and boil them in water for half an hour, pour out the soup and drink it, 2 to 3 times a day. You can drink more if the condition is serious. If you don't want to brew it, you can consider using already ground tea powder, which is more convenient to brew and drink.

Tangerine peel is a common medicinal food in traditional Chinese medicine. It can dispel cold, dry dampness, promote qi and eliminate phlegm. It has the effects of relieving cough, reducing phlegm, clearing the lungs and ventilating the lungs for patients with bronchitis. At the same time, it is combined with gardenia, licorice, monk fruit and Sterculia lychnophora to complement each other and relieve sore throat and inflammation.

Principle: Tangerine peel: It has the effects of regulating qi, relieving fullness, drying dampness and resolving phlegm, and is mainly used to treat cough with excessive phlegm.

Gardenia: It has the effect of cooling blood and detoxifying, and is mainly used to clear lung heat and resolve phlegm.

Luo Han Guo: It has the effects of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, relieving sore throat and opening voice, and lubricating the intestines and relieving constipation.

Plantago ovata: used for hoarseness due to lung heat, dry cough without sputum, dry and sore throat, constipation due to heat accumulation, headache and red eyes.

Licorice: It has the effects of tonifying the spleen and replenishing qi, clearing away heat and detoxifying, removing phlegm and relieving cough, and relieving pain.