Identify the type of cold from the sound of cough

Coughing when you have a cold is considered a symptom by most people; but in traditional Chinese medicine, it has become an important basis for assisting in determining the type of cold. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cough is caused by the six external evils and internal injuries to the internal organs, which affect the lungs, but its manifestations are different due to wind-cold, wind-heat, wind-dryness, phlegm-dampness, phlegm-heat, yin deficiency, and qi deficiency.

1. Heavy cough

People with itchy throat, thin white phlegm, nasal congestion, clear runny nose, and thin white tongue coating usually suffer from a cold cough. You may consider taking Tongxuan Lifei Pills and other treatments. In terms of diet, you can drink perilla porridge, scallion porridge, etc., but do not eat cold foods such as bitter melon.

2. Frequent and severe coughing

Rough breathing or hoarse cough, sore throat, yellow and sticky phlegm that is difficult to cough up, accompanied by runny yellow nose, thirst, thin yellow tongue coating, etc., are wind-heat coughs. Medications that can be considered include Yinhuang oral liquid, and fresh lotus root juice and pear juice are recommended for diet therapy.

3. Itchy throat and dry cough

People with dry and sore throat, dry posterior nose, no phlegm or little phlegm mostly have wind-dryness cough. It is recommended to take loquat paste, etc., and food supplements can choose white fungus porridge and lily rice porridge.

4. Recurrent coughing

People who have heavy and dull coughs, chest tightness and shortness of breath, especially severe coughs in the morning, with sticky or thick phlegm in lumps, and accompanied by symptoms such as loss of appetite and abdominal distension, generally have phlegm-damp coughs. They should use Tangerine Peel Pills, etc., and eat more radish and barley porridge, etc.

5. Coughing with shortness of breath or phlegm in the throat

People who have a lot of sticky phlegm, who are uncomfortable to cough up or have a hot and fishy smell, or even vomit blood in phlegm, have a distended chest and flank, and a red face and tongue, mostly have a cough caused by phlegm-heat. You can use compound fresh bamboo juice, etc., and food supplements such as autumn pear and white lotus root juice, reed root porridge, etc. are suitable.

6. Dry cough, short cough

Or if there is blood in the sputum, low fever, dry mouth, and red cheeks in the afternoon, it is mostly a cough due to yin deficiency. You can take Chinese patent medicines such as Yangyin Qingfei Pills, and focus on nourishing yin in your diet. You can take lily and rice porridge, scutellaria and rehmannia glutinosa porridge, etc.

7. Cough that does not heal for a long time

A weak cough, clear and thin sputum, pale face and excessive sweating are mostly caused by qi deficiency. You can take Sijunzi mixture and drink more astragalus porridge, pig lung and coix seed porridge, etc. Of course, if the cough is severe, you should go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible to avoid delaying the disease.