Can lung failure be cured? How to treat it?

The lungs are one of the main organs of the human respiratory system. The lungs have unique functions and are the place for gas exchange, ensuring that the body can continuously obtain the freshest oxygen. However, when the lungs encounter disease, their functions will decline and become damaged, threatening health. This is the problem of lung failure. Let's take a look at whether lung failure can be cured. How to treat it?

Treating diseases based on syndrome differentiation

1. Wind-cold internal drinking type

Symptoms: Cough, wheezing, inability to lie down, shortness of breath, white, thin, foamy sputum, chest distension, aversion to cold, body aches, or dry mouth without desire to drink, pale complexion, enlarged tongue, dull tongue texture, white and slippery tongue coating, and floating and tight pulse.

Treatment method: Warm the lungs and dispel cold, reduce adverse effects and eliminate phlegm.

Prescription : Xiaoqinglong Decoction.

In the formula, ephedra, cinnamon twig, dried ginger, and asarum warm the lungs, dispel cold and eliminate fluid; pinellia and licorice eliminate phlegm and reduce adverse reactions; white peony root and schisandra chinensis are used to astringe the lung qi, making the formula disperse while also astringing. If you cough and have shortness of breath, and there is a sound like a water chicken in your throat, but there is no external cold, you can use Shegan Mahuang Decoction. If the stagnation of fluid turns into heat, causing restlessness and wheezing, with a floating pulse, use Xiaoqinglong Jia Shigao Tang to clear both the stagnation and the heat.

2. Phlegm-heat stagnation in the lungs

Symptoms: Cough, wheezing, heavy breathing, yellow or white sputum that is sticky and difficult to cough up, chest fullness and irritability, bulging eyes, or fever and sweating, or slight aversion to cold, yellow urine and dry stools, thirst, dark red tongue, yellow or greasy yellow tongue coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

Treatment method: ． Clears the lungs, releases heat, reduces adverse effects and relieves asthma.

Prescription: Yuebi Jia Banxia Decoction.

The prescription uses ephedra and gypsum, a combination of pungent and cool. The pungent taste can dissipate the lungs and dissipate evil, while the cool taste can clear away lung heat. Pinellia and ginger can disperse phlegm and reduce adverse effects. Licorice and jujube can calm the body and repel external pathogens, so as to strengthen the body and eliminate evil.

If phlegm and heat are excessive inside the body and the phlegm is sticky and difficult to cough up, add Houttuynia cordata, Scutellaria baicalensis, Trichosanthes peel, Fritillaria thunbergii, and sea clam powder to clear the phlegm and heat. If phlegm and heat are excessive inside the body, mulberry bark soup can also be used. For patients with phlegm-heat accumulation, constipation and abdominal distension, add rhubarb and nitrate to clear the bowels and relieve heat. For those with phlegm, wheezing, and inability to lie flat, add Shegan and Trichosanthes kirilowii to clear the lungs and relieve asthma. If phlegm and heat damage body fluid, causing dry mouth and tongue, add pollen, Anemarrhena asphodeloides and Ophiopogon japonicus to produce body fluid and relieve dryness. ,

3. Phlegm and blood stasis obstructing the lungs

Symptoms: Coughing with a lot of white or foamy sputum, phlegm in the throat, wheezing and inability to lie flat, chest fullness, stuffiness, gray and dark complexion, cyanotic lips and nails, dark or purple tongue, thickened sublingual tendons, greasy or turbid tongue coating, and a wiry and slippery pulse.

Treatment method: Clear phlegm and blood stasis, drain the lungs and relieve asthma.

Prescription: Tingli Dazaoshaifei Decoction combined with Guizhi Fuling Pills.