How does Traditional Chinese Medicine treat bronchiectasis?

Bronchiectasis is a common respiratory disease in the north of our country. It is mostly caused by external smoke and dust infection or local bacterial infection. If the patient has this condition, he may experience fever, cough, sputum, etc. At present, Chinese medicine mainly uses some drugs to dispel wind-heat, moisten the lungs and clear dryness to treat this disease. Although it has good therapeutic effects, prevention and health care are still the most important.

Bronchiectasis and phlegm-heat accumulation in the lungs type. Mild cases are accompanied by repeated coughing and coughing up purulent sputum. Severe cases are accompanied by lung infection and high fever, aggravated cough, increased amount of purulent or green purulent sputum, chest pain and tightness, bitter taste in the mouth, bad breath, or swollen and painful gums, and dry stools. When wind-heat or epidemic toxins invade the lungs or wind-cold attacks the lungs and turns into heat over time, Chinese medicine should pay attention to clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting lung function and resolving phlegm in the treatment of bronchiectasis.

Professionals remind: If you cough up a lot of pus and sputum, accompanied by fever and constipation, you can add fresh bamboo juice, Viola yedoensis, and rhubarb to the above formula to enhance the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, resolving phlegm and discharging pus; if accompanied by hemoptysis, choose rhubarb charcoal, Sanguisorba officinalis, and Rubia cordifolia as appropriate, which have the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood and stopping bleeding; adding raw Astragalus to the above formula has the effects of invigorating Qi, strengthening the body, expelling toxins and discharging pus, so regardless of whether there is a deficiency of the body, it should be used heavily. Bronchiectasis and phlegm-heat accumulation in the lungs type. Mild cases are accompanied by repeated coughing and coughing up purulent sputum. Severe cases are accompanied by lung infection and high fever, aggravated cough, increased amount of purulent or green purulent sputum, chest pain and tightness, bitter taste in the mouth, bad breath, or swollen and painful gums, and dry stools.

In the clinical treatment of bronchiectasis, we still recommend quick treatment, because if it is not controlled in time, the bacteria may continue to spread, causing lung infection or other complications, which will have a serious impact on the patient's health. In addition, if you think that traditional Chinese medicine treatment is too slow, you can adopt the method of combining Chinese and Western medicine, using Western antibiotics combined with Chinese medicine's moisturizing drugs, so as to achieve the effect of treating both the symptoms and the root cause.