Liver fire attacks the lungs and causes cough

We Chinese have a saying about getting angry. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, it is said that the five elements correspond to the five internal organs and they influence each other. Just like getting angry with the liver can easily lead to lung cough. The root cause of lung cough we need to solve is liver fire. What we need to do is to clear away heat and relieve cough. Generally, Chinese medicine practitioners will prescribe internal, external and dietary treatments. They are a little slower and more troublesome, but they can solve the problem fundamentally. However, one thing that is different about liver fire is that it is related to the individual's emotions, so the patient's emotions must be channeled.

1. Internal treatment

Treatment principle: Clear the liver and reduce fire, calm the lungs and relieve cough.

Main prescription: Daihesan (or Longdanxiegantang) combined with Qingjinhuatantang (or Xiebaisan) with modifications.

If the liver fire is raging, with cough, shortness of breath, red face and eyes, and bitter taste in the mouth, add gentian; if phlegm and heat are excessive inside, with cough and a lot of sputum, add bamboo juice; if fire and heat damage the yin, with dry mouth and thirst, restlessness and insomnia, add raw rehmannia, radix trichosanthis, and reed root; if wood fire is burning, with both lung qi and yin deficiency, add ginseng, ophiopogon japonicus, and schisandra chinensis; if there is blood in the cough sputum, add agrimony, sanguisorba officinalis charcoal, and rehmannia root; if bleeding is gushing, add rhinoceros horn and raw rhubarb, and take ginseng and notoginseng powder or Yunnan Baiyao; if blood is lost and yang is dead, with pale face, cold limbs, and profuse sweating, urgently use ginseng decoction, or ginseng and aconite decoction.

2. External treatment

(1) Take an appropriate amount of Aconite, crush it, and apply it to the Yongquan acupoint.

(2) Take an appropriate amount of garlic, mash it into juice and apply it to the Yongquan point, alternating between both feet.

3. Diet therapy

(1) Mulberry and chrysanthemum tea: Take appropriate amount of mulberry leaves and chrysanthemum, brew with boiling water and drink it as usual.

(2) Winter melon porridge: Cook winter melon seeds and 50 grams of glutinous rice into porridge.

(3) Gardenia kernel porridge: Gardenia kernel (ground into powder) and 50g of polished rice. First cook the polished rice into porridge, then add the powder and consume.

(4) Pear, Fritillaria and Chrysanthemum Drink: Steam the pear and Fritillaria cirrhosa, extract the juice, and then soak it in chrysanthemum.

Key points of treatment

1. This syndrome is a liver-lung disease, which is a positive syndrome. The main treatment method is to purge the liver and clear the lungs. For those whose emotions are stagnant and turn into fire that affects the lungs, Daihesan combined with Qingjin Huatan Tang is the main treatment. For those whose damp-heat in the liver meridians is intense and affects the lungs, Longdan Xiegan Tang combined with Xiebaisan can be used. For those whose liver fire burns the lung meridians and symptoms include coughing up blood, Daihesan combined with Xiebaisan can be used as the main treatment, with blood-cooling and hemostatic drugs added.

2. When both liver and lungs are diseased, the liver is mainly responsible. However, if the liver treatment effect is not significant, attention should be paid to adjusting the treatment method. If the liver fire inflames the lungs and cannot be cured by clearing it, the method of clearing metal and controlling wood can be used, and Adenophora Root, Ophiopogon japonicus, Asparagus cochinchinensis, Semen Cassiae Oleraceus, etc. can be selected; if the kidney water is deficient and the liver fire is dense, and it does not respond to clearing, the method of tonifying the mother can be used. It is recommended to take Liuwei Dihuang Pills or the like.

3. The liver is responsible for ascending and the lungs are responsible for descending. When the liver and lungs are diseased at the same time, the liver ascends too much and the lungs descend insufficiently, causing the qi to ascend and descend unbalanced. When using medication, attention should be paid to whether its nature of ascending, descending, floating and sinking should be appropriate to the symptoms, and especially the use of drugs that descend should be emphasized.

4. Fire is a yang evil, which is most likely to damage the body's qi, consume blood and cause blood circulation. The burning of wood and fire often causes lung yin deficiency. During treatment, attention should be paid to protecting lung yin. Most medicines that clear the liver and drain the lungs are bitter and cold and can damage the stomach, so those with weak spleen and stomach should use them with caution.

5. This syndrome is closely related to emotions, so while taking medication, it is necessary to coordinate emotional counseling.