There are many ways to treat cardiac asthma

Asthma, we all know what kind of disease it is. Once it occurs, breathing becomes difficult and it is easy to suffocate and die. It has a great impact on life. Many people suffer from this disease. Cardiogenic asthma is even more serious. So how to treat cardiac asthma? Are there any good treatments? Let's find out together.

Western medicine treatment of cardiac asthma

1. Treatment

Efforts should be made to find the cause of the syndrome and treat it. For example, if paroxysmal dyspnea is caused by mitral stenosis, mitral valve separation can completely eliminate the symptoms of the syndrome. The treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea is the same as that of other acute heart failure, such as sedation, oxygen infusion, sitting position with legs hanging down to reduce venous return; and the use of cardiotonic, diuretic and vasodilator drugs to improve cardiac function.

2. Prognosis

The prognosis of this disease is related to the nature of the primary disease. For example, mitral stenosis has a good prognosis after surgical treatment, while the prognosis is poor for those caused by aortic valve disease and coronary heart disease. The condition often deteriorates rapidly and quickly affects the right ventricle, leading to total heart failure.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment of Cardiogenic Asthma

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease can be classified into the categories of "palpitations", "asthma", "edema", "phlegm and fluid" and so on.

Syndrome differentiation

Deficiency of both Qi and Yin: palpitations and shortness of breath, which worsen with movement, or even insomnia, fatigue, dizziness, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, hot sensation in the five parts of the body, insomnia, dry mouth and throat, red tongue, and a thin and rapid pulse.

[Treatment method] Tonify Qi and nourish Yin.

[Prescription] Shengmai San combined with Zhigancao Tang. If accompanied by precordial pain and ecchymosis on the tongue, it is due to blood stasis blocking the heart meridian. Add salvia miltiorrhiza, Chuanxiong, sandalwood and safflower to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. If there is fluid evil involved, with symptoms such as coughing up white or pink foamy sputum, add Trichosanthes kirilowii to purge the lungs and eliminate fluid.

Water and fluid in the heart: palpitations and shortness of breath, cough and wheezing, coughing up white or foamy sputum, oliguria and edema, dark tongue, white and slippery tongue coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.