Cough, phlegm, chest tightness and shortness of breath? How to treat a cough?

Coughing is a common physiological symptom. Some are caused by colds, some are caused by asthma, etc. But if you suddenly cough in a public place, then here is a quick way to stop coughing.

Treating cough - Shaoshang point and Kongzui point

First, I will teach you an acupuncture point that can quickly stop coughing. Many people have encountered this situation. In some important occasions, they suddenly cannot stop coughing. At this time, you just need to pinch and press your Shaoshang point with your fingernails for more than 30 seconds to stop coughing.

Shaoshang point is located 0.1 inch above the corner of the root of the nail on the radial side of the distal segment of the thumb. It is the well point of the hand Taiyin Lung Meridian. Bleeding at Shaoshang point can also clear away accumulated heat in the lungs and treat wind-heat cough.

Some people have a cough for a long time, which is called a chronic cough. It is mostly because external pathogens stay in the body for a long time, damaging our internal organs, or it is caused by qi deficiency and blood deficiency, emotional depression, etc. Many people like to drink cough syrup to relieve cough. Now I will teach you how to find the cough syrup that our body has built in and that doesn’t cost any money. That is the Kongzui acupoint.

Kongzui point is a Xi point of the hand Taiyin Lung Meridian. “Xi means a hole where Qi and blood are deeply stored”. Xi points on Yin meridians are good at treating blood diseases, so Kongzui point is best at treating chronic cough and stopping hemoptysis. Plucking the Kongzui point can relieve the symptoms of long-term cough, while acupuncture at the Kongzui point can cure long-term cough.

The plucking method is a relatively special technique, which involves pressing the thumb deeply on the acupoint, and when a sore, swollen and painful feeling appears on the finger, plucking it back and forth like plucking the strings of a guitar.

Shaoshang

Quick acupoint location: Place your palms down, and press until you feel pain, 0.1 inch above the radial corner of the nail root at the distal segment of the thumb.

Indications: pneumonia, tonsillitis, epistaxis, high fever, stroke, coma, schizophrenia.

Kong Zui

Quick acupoint location: Extend your arm with your palm to the side and locate the acupoint one finger width above the midpoint of the line connecting Chize and Taiyuan.

Indications: Hemoptysis, cough, sore throat, fever with no sweating, hemorrhoidal bleeding, pain in elbows and arms.

Cough and phlegm-relieving: Kongzui point, Fenglong point (Zhikejuhong pill)

If you cough up phlegm, you cannot just use cough suppressants, you also need to take expectorant drugs. Some people choose cough-relieving tangerine peel pills, which have the effects of clearing the lungs, relieving coughs and resolving phlegm. So which acupoint on our body has the effect of resolving phlegm, and when used with the Kongzui acupoint, it is equivalent to the cough-relieving orange peel pill? This acupoint is Fenglong.

Fenglong point belongs to the Stomach Meridian of Foot Yangming, and is best at removing phlegm. It can transform both visible phlegm and invisible phlegm, and has a very good effect of strengthening the spleen, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

Hong Leong

Quick acupoint location: Sit with knees bent. First find the outer knee pit. Fenglong point is located at the midpoint of the line connecting the outer knee pit and the front edge of the outer ankle and the tip of the outer ankle, about two horizontal fingers lateral to the anterior crest of the tibia. It feels heavy when pressed.

Indications: headache, dizziness, cough, sputum, asthma, chest pain, mania, epilepsy, lower limb edema, leg and knee pain, lower limb paralysis, hypertension, etc.