Chinese medicine will cough is distinguished to do the identification, a bunch of sound without phlegm for cough, phlegm without sound for cough. However, patients with phlegm sound and see, in order to facilitate the unification, are to cough and said.

How do you tell the difference between a cold cough and a hot cough?

cold coughCough sputum is thin, white or colorless, mixed with foam, and easy to cough up. It is often accompanied by headache, nasal congestion, runny nose, cold and aching limbs, chills, and no sweating.The tongue is white.

phlegm: Coughing sputum is thick and sticky, yellow in color and not easy to cough out. It is often accompanied by dry and sore throat, hoarse voice, red face, bad taste in the mouth, yellow urine and fear of cold.The tongue is yellowish.

In fact, the cough is not simply divided into cold cough and hot cough, Chinese medicine will be divided into cough and internal injuries within the cough and cough two big, and the causative factors are many.

Treatment of cold and hot coughs

wind-cold cough

Ginger brown sugar garlic water: a small piece of ginger, a garlic, brown sugar moderate. Ginger shredded, garlic minced, together into the pot to cook, boil, add brown sugar and stir evenly, and then cook for 3 minutes. It can sweat away the symptoms, warm the lungs and relieve cough.

Roasted orange: a very simple remedy, put the orange in a small fire to roast can be, pay attention to the process of baking turn the orange, to avoid one side of the burnt. Can stop coughing and expectorant. The effect is remarkable.

wind-heat cough

Chuanbei ice sugar snow pear soup: cut the top part of the pear horizontally against the handle, use a spoon to scoop out the heart part of the pear. Put in the right amount of rock sugar, 5-6 Sichuan shellfish (preferably Sichuan shellfish powder, you can knock the Sichuan shellfish into crushed form), and then cover the pear handle. Stew over medium heat in water for 1 hour. It can clear the lungs and moisten the voice, stop cough and dispel phlegm.

White radish boiled in water:Take clean radish, cut 5-6 thin slices in the middle, put it into a small pot, add a bowl of water, and stew it for 15-20 minutes. It can clear lung heat, stop cough and protect voice. It is a very simple remedy and has a good effect.

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I am a Chinese medicine doctor, and I have recently encountered many patients with colds and coughs in my clinic.

How to distinguish cold cough or hot cough is very critical, which involves the direction of clinical treatment.

If I have a cold cough, I should use pungent and warm medicines. If I have a hot cough, I should use clear, moist and astringent medicines.

Treatment that goes in the opposite direction is not only ineffective, but aggravating.

So how exactly do you tell the difference between still hot? I'll tell you some of the most intuitive, practical ways, and what I've learned from my own experience.

First, look at the color of the phlegm

Generally speaking, yellow phlegm represents heat and white phlegm is cold.

Clear frothy sputum is wind-phlegm watery.

Second, look at the color of the lips, tongue, and oral mucosa.

Generally the red color represents fire and heat. A mouth and lips, tongue and oral mucosa, and throat are red, swollen and hot, reddish in color or painful, that is heat. Emphasize, must be hot evidence, must look at the color of the mucous membrane throat. Remember that red is hot white.

Third, look at the tongue, the color of the tongue coating.

Look at the tongue, in addition to the tongue color red is heat, there is also the tongue coating yellow also represents heat. It is also very important to look at the tongue coating, once you stick out your tongue and look at the white tongue coating, it is usually cold, and the yellow tongue coating is hot.

The average person who is not very knowledgeable about Chinese medicine can read the tongue at home for basic composition and calories.

Cough is divided into cold and heat to this point is not yet finished. Of course, this cold and heat is best divided into table and inside.

Because in the case of heat, for example, superficial heat and internal heat, the treatment is different.

Take a cold as an example, if you see fever and fever, this heat is still superficial heat, you need to use sweating to relieve it. As for the internal heat, it needs to be treated with cold medicines that clear the internal heat.

Many Chinese medicine practitioners do not even differentiate between cold and heat on the surface, and when they see heat, they use heat-clearing medicines, and as a result, they bring the surface evils to the inside.

How to determine whether it is superficial heat or internal heat? Of course, professional Chinese medicine practitioners can grasp it by feeling the pulse. A floating pulse is on the surface and a sinking pulse is on the inside.

How does the average person differentiate between the surface and the inside? It's by the color of the urine.

The clear color of urine is superficial heat, even if the fever reaches 40 degrees, you can't use cold medicine that clears internal heat.

If the urine is yellow, it doesn't matter much if you use medicines to clear internal heat or antibiotics from Western medicine at this time, that's the right thing to do.

Why is it that after many people catch a cold, the cough is always cold, but not good, and it becomes a chronic cough? It is to treat this table as inside.

Originally in the skin of the evil, through sweating can be lifted, if the use of cold to clear the heat of the medicine, the inside of the positive qi injury, the evil qi internal sinking will become the internal evidence, many coughs so become chronic.

transformations of cold and heat

Of course cold and heat, it is not set in stone, nor is it fixed. Of course, at the beginning of the cold is because of the wind-cold, gradually the development of the disease, the fight between good and evil, that may be transformed into heat into the inside.

Or some coughs that are febrile can slowly turn cold again as the condition progresses over time and the positive qi becomes deficient.

Overall you need to be flexible and use the tongue, pulse, and urine as key indicators.

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Cough is a common symptom of upper respiratory tract infection, bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma and other diseases. According to Chinese medicine, coughs are caused by external or internal injuries that make the lung qi unclear and unable to promote the descending of the lungs. According to the etiology can be divided into wind-cold cough, wind-heat cough, phlegm-heat cough and liver fire against the lungs, dryness injury to the lungs, phlegm and dampness in the lungs, lung yin loss and other causes of cough.

Coughs caused by these etiologies can be categorized as cold and hot coughs. So, what are the best ways to diagnose a cold or hot cough?

1. Observe the coughing sputum, sputum color yellow and sticky, not easy to cough up, and heavier in the morning and at noon for heat, if the sputum color white and thin, easier to cough up, heavier in the afternoon or evening, get heat to alleviate, aggravated by cold for cold.

2. Observe the pharynx, if the pharynx is not red or though red and swollen lightly, it is cold, if the pharynx is bright red and swollen heavily, even pus, it is hot.

3. Observe the tongue texture and tongue coating, if the tongue texture light tongue coating white and watery, it is cold, if the tongue texture red, moss yellow and dry, it is hot.

4. Observe the nose, if the nasal mucus is white, it is generally cold and has not yet been transformed into heat, if the nasal mucus is yellow and sticky, it is hot.

5. Observe the sweating situation, the cold disease little or no sweat, cold limbs cold, heat disease is sweating more, five heart heat.

6. If the patient's urine is yellowish and reddish and less, and the patient is thirsty and drinks a lot of water, then it is a hot disease; on the other hand, if the patient's urine is clear and long, and the patient does not like to drink water or likes to drink hot water, then it is a cold disease.

Cough caused by wind-heat is known as hot cough, the main symptom, manifested as sputum particularly thick, and the color is also yellow, and that the color of the nasal discharge is also yellow, such as this situation is often referred to as viral colds.

Like this kind of hot cough, then we have to use cool drugs, will he this hot cough heat to it down, so that the cough can be good, so like this kind of hot cough symptoms, we should also pay attention to the composition of this medicine when buying medicine.

Cold cough, is more frequent in winter and spring these two seasons, because the weather in these two seasons is very cold, if we just come out of the very warm quilt, and then rush to work, this time the cold wind blowing will be very easy to get cold cough, cold cough is due to the cold and get cold cough.

Cold cough, that is, caused by wind-cold cough is called cold cough, and his performance and hot cough, the complete opposite, his sputum most of it is the color is relatively white, and relatively thin, and runny nose that is also relatively thin, and the color is clear water.

Like this cold cough it, and hot cough they that is exactly the same, the medication is also the opposite, for this cold cough it, we have to use warm type of drugs, get rid of the body's cold, so that the cold out of the cold, cold cough can be good.

Hot cough, and cold cough is really relative, hot cough, mostly in the summer and fall, because the weather in these two seasons is relatively warm, so if the hot wind blowing coupled with their own resistance is relatively weak, so it is very easy to get hot cough, especially in the summer cold is also particularly susceptible to hot cough.

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