Chinese medicine for relieving cough and asthma

Compared with Western medicine, Chinese medicine has a slower effect, but has fewer side effects on the human body. Therefore, most people choose Chinese medicine when taking medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine relieves people’s symptoms by regulating the internal organs of the human body. For example, if someone is coughing, it must be because of problems with the lungs. At this time, some lung-clearing medicines are needed. Let’s take a look at some Chinese medicines that can relieve cough and asthma.

The main function of antitussive and antiasthmatic drugs is to stop coughing, relieve gas and asthma, and they are suitable for symptoms of cough and asthma. The symptoms of asthma and cough are more complicated, including dry cough without sputum, coughing up thin sputum or thick sputum, cough and shortness of breath due to exogenous factors, cough and asthma due to deficiency, etc. The symptoms of cold, heat, deficiency and excess are different, so it is necessary to make a dialectical treatment and choose the appropriate combination. There are different types of cough and asthma suppressants, such as those that clear the lungs, astringe the lungs, moisten the lungs, and lower the qi, and they must be distinguished when used.

Chop a few pieces of fresh grapefruit peel, add honey and steam it until soft, then take one teaspoon of it with warm rice wine every morning. Regulate Qi and resolve phlegm, relieve cough and asthma.

1. Expectorants can be divided into those that warm and resolve cold phlegm and those that clear and resolve hot phlegm. Cough and asthma relievers can be divided into those that open the lungs, clear the lungs, warm the lungs, and astringe the lungs. Therefore, when using them, you must choose the appropriate medicine for treatment based on the condition of the disease.

2. Expectorants and antitussive and antiasthmatic drugs each have their own strengths. If there is a lot of phlegm and asthma, the two can be used together.

3. Whenever using expectorant, antitussive and antiasthmatic drugs, they must be used in appropriate combination according to the condition of the disease: if there are also external symptoms, they should be used together with antipyretic drugs; if there are also heat symptoms, they should be used together with heat-clearing drugs; if there are also cold symptoms, they should be used together with cold-relieving drugs; cough with sputum and blood can be used together with hemostatic drugs; lung deficiency and excessive sputum can be used together with spleen-strengthening drugs; lung deficiency and long-term cough can be used together with lung-tonifying drugs; lung qi deficiency and asthma, can be used together with kidney-tonifying and qi-replenishing drugs.

4. For epilepsy caused by phlegm heat, coma and epilepsy caused by phlegm dampness, phlegm dampness entering the meridians, soreness and numbness of limbs, etc., when using expectorants, they can be used together with wind-calming drugs, or orifice-opening drugs or wind-dispelling drugs.

5. To enhance the efficacy of expectorant drugs, they can be used together with drugs that have diuretic, dampness-eliminating, and qi-regulating effects. It is used for long-term cough without phlegm, and can be appropriately combined with drugs that astringe lung qi.

6. For those with dry sputum, dry cough, insufficient lung yin or cough with blood in sputum, it is not advisable to use medicines with warm and dry properties.

7. Patients with the initial onset of cough and asthma due to external infection or cough and asthma caused by phlegm should not use lung-tonifying and cough-relieving drugs.