Can pleurisy be cured? Chinese medicine is effective in treating it.

Pleurisy is a common disease that is extremely harmful to the body and must be treated promptly once discovered. Experts analyzed that this disease can be cured. From a clinical point of view, the effect will be better if traditional Chinese medicine is used for treatment, because they will choose different treatment prescriptions according to different types.

① Evils attack the chest and lungs: chills and fever, cough with little sputum, stabbing pain in the chest and ribs, bitter taste in the mouth and dry throat, red tongue with thin coating, and stringy and rapid pulse.

Treatment method: Reconcile and clear away heat, regulate Qi and unclog the meridians.

Prescription: 30 grams each of Trichosanthes kirilowii and cattail grass, 15 grams each of Bupleurum chinense and red and white paeonia lactiflora, 10 grams each of Scutellaria baicalensis, Pinellia ternata, Citrus aurantium, Platycodon grandiflorum, and Morus alba bark, and 6 grams of liquorice.

② Fluid stagnation in the chest and flanks: pain caused by coughing and spitting, difficulty breathing, coughing, wheezing and inability to lie down, white and greasy tongue coating, and deep and stringy pulse.

Treatment method: expel water and eliminate fluid.

Prescription: 30 grams of Stemona bulbus, 15 grams each of Trichosanthes kirilowii and Poria cocos, 11 grams of Lepidium officinale, 10 grams each of Morus alba bark, Perilla frutescens, Tangerine peel, Pinellia ternata, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Allium macrostemon, and Citrus aurantium, and 6 grams of Licorice root.

③ Phlegm and blood stasis: chest pain, tightness, difficulty breathing, prolonged duration, dark purple tongue, white tongue coating, and stringy pulse.

Treatment method: Resolving phlegm, activating blood circulation, regulating Qi and harmonizing collaterals.

Prescription: 30 grams of coix seed, 15 grams each of trichosanthes, red peony root, and poria, 10 grams each of inula flower, perilla, apricot kernel, pinellia, cyperus, tangerine peel, fructus aurantii, and rhizoma smilacis Glabrae, and 6 grams each of processed milk vetch (wrapped and decocted).

④ Internal heat due to Yin deficiency: choking cough with little sputum, dry mouth and throat, hot flashes and night sweats, fever in the five parts of the body, red cheeks, emaciation, red tongue with little coating, and thready and rapid pulse.

Treatment method: Nourish yin and clear heat.

Prescription: 15 grams each of Adenophora Root, Ophiopogon japonicus, Polygonatum odoratum, Pollen, Stemona Root, 13 grams of Pseudostellaria baicalensis, 10 grams each of Morus alba bark, Rehmannia glutinosa, Chinese magnolia vine, Bupleurum chinense, Curcuma aromatica, Apricot kernel, and 6 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa powder (to be taken with water).