The so-called "all diseases are caused by phlegm", phlegm is stagnant in the body, the development of its lesions, can be injured yang and turn cold, can be depressed and turned into fire, can be mixed with the wind, mixed with the heat, can be turned into dry on the yin ...... Therefore, phlegm should not stay in the body, phlegm should be discharged. But before we discharge the phlegm, we need to figure out what phlegm is? It is so caused, how to row it? After all, some of the more slippery, coughing can be easily eliminated, while some of the more viscous, feel the phlegm, but coughing can not be discharged, generally speaking, white phlegm is not necessary to clear the lungs. Exactly how to deal with it?

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Understanding from Chinese medicine, phlegm is the body's water metabolism disorders formed by the pathological products, generally known as phlegm thick and cloudy, more clear and thin known as drink, so collectively known as phlegm drink. The formation of phlegm and drink is mostly caused by six external influences, or internal injuries of seven emotions, or dietary disorders, resulting in dysfunction of the internal organs, unfavorable qi, impaired water metabolism, stagnation of water and drink. The lungs, spleen, kidneys and triple jiao play an important role in bringing blood to the water, so when they are not functioning properly, phlegm and drink are easily generated.

Is white phlegm meant to promote or clear the lungs?

Lung Qi needs to be declared only when Lung Qi is not declared, so what are the manifestations of Lung Qi being declared? The loss of lung qi is due to external evils that attack the lungs, manifesting as coughing, shortness of breath, and spitting phlegm. But white phlegm is mostly due to cold evils against the lungs, due to external cold evils, lung qi does not propagate, cold drink internal obstruction, the loss of purging, so there will be a cough, shortness of breath, sputum white and thin, or relatively easy to cough out.

Therefore, white phlegm should need to promote the lungs, and you can use Tongxuan Lung Pills, Acute Branch Syrup, and Compound Licorice Combination.

Of course, you can also regulate through diet, white radish a sliced, sweet almonds 10g (to remove the tip of the slice) mashed, 30g of rock sugar, shared steamed hot service, for seven days.

Generally white phlegm if it is thin is easy to cough up, and do not feel uncomfortable, mainly wind-cold attack lungs caused by coughing, nasal congestion, runny make people uncomfortable. If the white phlegm is thick and sticky, what should I do?

white, thick phlegm (TCM)

Phlegm more color white thick and sticky cough recurrent attacks, may be phlegm dampness lung due to, although also relatively easy to cough out, but want to clear the phlegm is not easy, we can use the snake gall Chen Pi powder or snake gall Chuanbei liquid.

The same can be regulated through diet, white radish a sliced, sweet almonds 10g (to remove the tip of the slice) mashed, 30g of rock sugar, shared steamed hot service, for seven days.

What if the phlegm is yellow, thick and sticky?

Need to see whether the wind-cold lung or phlegm-heat congestion of the lungs, wind-heat against the lungs is mainly manifested in the cough thick air, phlegm yellow and thick, cough phlegm is not refreshing, thirst is often accompanied by fever, headache and sweating, etc., the emergency syrup, cough loquat lozenges, fresh bamboo lee liquid, or with the Sichuan shellfish and pears in boiled water and so on are good to improve the method.

If the phlegm is yellow and sticky due to phlegm-heat congestion of the lungs, it will be accompanied by coughing and shortness of breath, or even fullness and pain in the chest and hypochondrium, the phlegm is yellow and sticky and thick, and the mouth is dry and you always want to drink water, we suggest you to eat more food such as pears, pipa, water chestnuts, etc. which are heat-clearing and cough-relieving and it may help, or you may choose Tangerine Red Pill or Snake Gallbladder and Chuanbei Liquid to help improve the situation.

summarize

Therefore, white phlegm should not be rushed to clear the lungs or promote the lungs, and needs to be dealt with according to the specific situation of the dialectical treatment. Of course, in general, white phlegm is still relatively good, at least easy to cough out, but it is accompanied by other symptoms are more abrasive, such as may be accompanied by coughing, asthma, fever, headache and other symptoms, but also need to be treated symptomatically. People who often cough up white phlegm should pay attention to keep warm and eat less spicy and stimulating food.

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White phlegm indicates that there is cold and drink that needs to be warmed and declared in the lungs, and cannot be treated by clearing the lungs.

Chinese medicine diagnosis is very much focused on the identification of phlegm, different types of phlegm represent different clinical significance, the choice of treatment methods, drugs are also different. The treatments and medicines used are also different. The following is a description of the different types of phlegm.

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1. White, thin phlegm with symptoms such as fear of cold is usually cold phlegm, and treatment requires warming.The "Poverty Essentials" has a cloud: "When you are sick with phlegm and drink, you should use warm medicines and", you can use dry ginger, half-summer, fine Xin and other pungent and warm medicines.

2. Cough and phlegm with obvious cold and fear of wind, indicating that there is also superficial evidence.In this case, you also need to use ephedra, Su Ye and other pungent, warm, cold-dispersing and symptomatic drugs to promote the lungs.

3. If you have a lot of phlegm and white phlegm, coughing due to phlegm, and a feeling that you can't finish spitting, most of them belong to damp phlegm.According to Chinese medicine, "spleen is the source of phlegm, lung is the storage of phlegm", although phlegm comes out from the respiratory tract, the root cause of phlegm lies in the dysfunction of the spleen. At this time, it is often necessary to strengthen the spleen and promote dampness, plus some drugs to resolve phlegm and cough, such as almonds, Platycodon grandiflorus, Asteraceae, Hedera japonica, etc. to treat.

4. The phlegm is yellow and sticky, not good for coughing out, accompanied by dry mouth, thirst, fear of heat, sweating and other symptoms, this kind of phlegm belongs to hot phlegm.At this time, it is necessary to clear away heat and resolve phlegm, and drugs such as Zhebei, Scutellaria baicalensis, Guayu, and Nansha Ginseng are commonly used.

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If there is phlegm, it needs to be expelled.

A lot of times a person coughs to get rid of some mucus or phlegm, etc.

Some phlegm is thick and sticky and not easy to cough up, while others are thin and come out with a cough.

Generally speaking, white phlegm is easier to cough up and not so sticky, while yellow phlegm is thicker and not so easy to cough up.

Is that white phlegm to be declared or cleared from the lungs?

In Chinese medicine, white phlegm is mostly cold and yellow phlegm is mostly hot.

Qing means clearing, clearing heat, so yellow phlegm, sticky phlegm is to be cleared, while white phlegm, relatively better to cough up, is given a boost to promote lung qi, so that the phlegm comes out along with this promoted qi.

How do you cough up white phlegm to clear the lungs?

phlegmThere is deficiency and solidity, and different medicines need to be chosen to promote the lungs according to the different types of evidence.

It can be roughly categorized into four types of evidence.

First of all, it's the feeling of cold。

Cold attacks the lungs, the lungs will not be able to pronounce, the lung qi will not be able to pass, the transmission of fluid depends on the lung qi, the qi is not able to pass, fluid will be accumulated in the lungs, transformed into phlegm.

This new onset of cold is one where there is still superficial evidence, and requires that the cold be treated and expectorated at the same time.

A more commonly used TCM formula is San'ao Tang with Stopping Cough. San'ao Tang consists of ephedra, almonds, and licorice. Stop Cusp Suppressant is composed of Bai Bu, Aster, Bai Qian, Platycodonopsis, Licorice, Thornybush, and Chen Pi.

San'ao Tang is used to promote the lung and disperse cold. In Stopping Coughing Powder, Thorny mustard is used to disperse wind and relieve surface, Bai Qian to elevate and elevate Qi, Aster and Bacopa monnieri to moisten the lungs and relieve cough, and Platycodonopsis, Licorice, and Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae to promote the lungs, resolve phlegm, and benefit the throat.

The second is phlegm-dampness in the lungs.

There is phlegm-dampness in the lungs, and without feeling external evils, the phlegm-dampness will naturally be transformed into phlegm, which is what the questioner reckons is the case.

Phlegm-dampness does not differentiate between cold and heat; cold manifests as white phlegm, while hot manifests as yellow phlegm.

So white phlegm is cold phlegm in the lungs.

At this time, it is necessary to dry dampness and resolve phlegm, and regulate qi to stop coughing.

A more commonly used formula is Er Chen Tang with San Zi Nourishing Relative Tang.

Er Chen Tang consists of Hanxia, Poria, Chen Pi, and Licorice. Three Sons Nourishing Relatives Tang consists of Zisu Zi, Bai Zhi Zi, and Lai Zhu Zi.

In Er Chen Tang, Semixia and Poria dry dampness and resolve phlegm; Chen Pi and Glycyrrhiza regulate Qi and harmonize the middle. In San Zi Nourishing Family Soup, Bai Zhi Zi warms the lung and induces qi to resolve phlegm; Su Zi and Lai Zi reduce qi, resolve phlegm and eliminate food.

The third type is cold drinks ambulating the lungs.

This is further than the phlegm-dampness in the lungs, not a small amount of phlegm problem of dampness and phlegm, is the lungs of long-term phlegm drink, coughing and then have the situation. Even coughing up, there is no way to lie down, can only sit down to be more comfortable, some will also have swollen feet performance.

This is the time to warm the lungs and dissolve the drink.

A more commonly used formula is Xiaoqinglong Tang.

Xiaoqinglong Tang consists of ephedra, cinnamon sticks, dry ginger, fine acrid, half-sia, licorice, white peony, and schizandra.

In this formula, ephedra, gui zhi, dry ginger and xin xin warm the lungs and disperse cold, bianxia reduces qi and resolves phlegm, bai shao and wu wei zi prevent too much dispersal; licorice harmonizes the middle.

The fourth type is Spleen and Kidney Yang deficiency.

Cold in the lungs produces white phlegm, then when the whole body is cold and the lungs refuse to be able to heat up, white phlegm will also be produced.

When the spleen and kidneys are both deficient in yang, the whole person is basically deficient in cold. This manifests as shortness of breath, palpitations and shortness of breath. Cold form and cold limbs, etc.

At this time, it is necessary to warm and tonify Kidney-Yang in order to dissolve watery drinks.

A more commonly used formula is Kidney Qi Pill with Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang.

Kidney Energy Pill consists of Yam, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Poria, Zedoaria, Dampy, Cinnamon Sticks, and Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae. Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang consists of Poria, Gui Zhi, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, and Glycyrrhiza Uralensis.

Both formulas are for warming the Kidney. Kidney Qi Pill emphasizes warming the Kidney, with Gui Zhi and Radix Polygoni Multiflori warming the Yang, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum and Chinese Yam nourishing the Spleen, Liver and Kidney, and Poria, Ze Xie Diarrhea and Dan Pi diaphoreticating the water to dispel evil spirits. Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang focuses on warming the Spleen, Gui Zhi passes Yang, Bai Zhu, Poria strengthens the Spleen and moves water, and Glycyrrhiza glabra harmonizes the middle.

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What is phlegm and where does it come from?

Chinese medicine said "phlegm", not only refers to coughing and spitting out of the mucus, phlegm, drink, water, wet with the same source and different flow, are due to the body's fluid operation, transmission, transmission and chemical imbalance and the formation of a pathological product.Chinese medicine believes that wherever qi and blood are not smooth, that is, the place where Jin condenses and produces phlegm.。

Phlegm is a secretion from the respiratory tract.It is propelled from the lungs to the upper airway by the movement of bronchial cilia and is expelled from the body by the normal cough reflex from the trachea through the mouth.

Normal people "phlegm" is very little, but when people inhale irritating gases, dust, disease-causing bacteria or viruses and other harmful substances, the upper respiratory tract, trachea and lungs, inflammation occurs, so that the secretion increases, the amount of phlegm will increase. Such as bronchitis, bronchodilatation, tuberculosis, pneumonia and so on.

Why do middle-aged and elderly people have a lot of phlegm?

Middle-aged and elderly people also have increased phlegm due to lowering of their immunity or chronic respiratory illnesses over a long period of time.

Chinese medicine believes thatMiddle-aged and old people, the functions of the lungs, spleen, kidneys and other organs gradually declineThe amount of phlegm increases when the water metabolism in the body is impaired and the pathological products cannot be eliminated from the body in time and accumulate in the body to form "phlegm".

Different colors of phlegm represent different diseases

Healthy phlegm is clear and can be made in about 100 milliliters a day. WhileWhen disease is present, the color of the sputum and thepatternIt's all going to change:

Cold phlegm: white phlegm, clear and thin;

Damp phlegm: phlegm is white, slippery, and easy to expel;

Hot phlegm: yellow phlegm, sticky and thick, or even lumpy;

Dry phlegm: dry throat, choking cough without phlegm or small amount of sticky phlegm

Carbuncle: vomiting pus and blood sputum with a foul odor.

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These sputum color analysis is of course not absolute, but mainly to do sharing, to give you a reference to support, if you find the color of the sputum is not right, note that we should promptly consult a doctor for examination and treatment as prescribed by the doctor.

It follows thatWhite phlegm should be promoting the lungs and resolving phlegmInstead, it clears the lungs and resolves phlegm as well as clears the lungs and relieves cough.

White phlegm belongs to the wind-cold attack on the lungs, feel the wind-cold caused by wind-cold, the lung orifices are unfavorable, there will be a cough with phlegm, nasal congestion and runny nose, belongs to the wind-cold in the surface of the phenomenon, should be dispersed, cold, lungs to stop coughing.

If it is wind-heat against the lungs, coughing with yellow phlegm, coughing with unpleasant phlegm, accompanied by yellow nasal discharge, this situation is only necessary to clear the lungs, clearing heat and resolving phlegm, wind-heat against the lungs will lead to phlegm viscous, yellowish in color, and sometimes there will be a sign of dry mouth and thirst.

Principles of white sputum treatment:Dispersing wind and cold, promoting lung circulation and relieving cough

Kitchen food can be used to expel wind and dispel cold, such as: Soursop leaves + pericarp boiled water to drink, green onion and white beans and ginger boiled water, ginger and jujube tea, and so on. Soursop leaves + tangerine peel boiled water to drink, onion white soybean ginger boiled water, ginger and jujube tea, and so on.

Ginger Peel Tea

【Material】: 20g of Chenpi, 10g of ginger slices, 5g of licorice, 5g of tea, with 1000ml of water.
[Practice]: According to this ratio, first boil the water, and then the Chenpi, ginger, licorice and tea into the brewing 10 minutes or so, to slag drink.

Recommended acupoints for removing phlegm

In addition to diet to resolve phlegm, acupuncture points can actually assist in regulating coughs and expectoration, to share with you a phlegm resolving wonder point-Tiantu Point!

Tian Tu point is located in the center of the human neck, in the depression of the upper fossa of the sternum. Tiantu point is an acupoint on the Ren vein, and in Chinese medicine theory it has aRegulating the lungs and resolving phlegm, inducing diaphoresis and opening the voice, promoting the circulation of lung qi and relieving cough.The efficacy of the

Taking points:It is located in the neck, on the anterior midline, midway between the two clavicles, and in the center of the upper fossa of the sternum.

Methods:Press the index finger on the acupoint to the extent that a feeling of soreness and distension occurs; press for 5 to 8 seconds and 10 to 20 times each time.

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When wind and cold invade the lungs, the lungs lose declination and water and dampness stop internally, accumulating and producing white phlegm.

Hello, I am a pharmacist dedicated to cardiovascular science, cardiopulmonary interoperability, and the study of cardiovascular disease often requires knowledge of the lungs as well.

The subject mentions that she has had white phlegm for many years and has a lung disease. White phlegm belongs to the cold syndrome, and the condition should be characterized by chronic coughing and spitting for a long period of time, which damages the lung yang, and the phlegm will be chilled, forming phlegm-dampness and white phlegm. When lung yang is damaged for a long time, it will affect spleen yang, and the spleen's function of water-dampness transportation will decline, which will aggravate the formation of phlegm-dampness. The lungs are the receptacles for storing phlegm, and phlegm-dampness in the lungs will increase.

Xuan Lung restores the lung's function of declaring and purging and helps to expel phlegm.

Therefore, white phlegm needs to be declared in the lungs, and while declaring the lungs, spleen yang and lung yang should be warmed and tonified to help the spleen transport phlegm and dampness and the lungs vaporize and qiize phlegm and dampness, which will help to dissolve phlegm.

The above belongs to the views of Chinese medicine, in line with the owner's question, but Wang Pharmacist think most people should not understand, so I changed the kind of their own words to say to you a listen.

The cause of white sputum is mainly related to inflammation of the pharynx and bronchi. White sputum is mostly due to viruses, mycoplasma, chlamydia and other viruses that infect the throat and bronchial tubes, making the tissue localized on the congestion, edema, secretion of inflammatory substances and mucosal epithelial cells together with the formation of sputum, most often seen in wind-cold colds.

Xuan Lung means to promote the passage of Qi to the lungs, which means to promote the expulsion of turbid Qi from the lungs and a healthy organism.

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When we go to the pharmacy to buy medicine for cough and phlegm, we often find that there are a lot of cough medicines, such as Xuanlong Cough Compound, pediatric Xuanlong Cough Granules, Antelope Clear Lung Granules, Clear Lungs and Phlegm Pills, etc., and see the name of the medicine with Xuanlong, but also with the clear lungs, many people will be issued a question, Xuanlong and clear lungs in the end, what is the difference between it? When there is white phlegm, should we promote the lungs or clear the lungs? Or should it be cleared? Below, I will talk with you about this issue, I hope to help you understand some of the differences between them.

In fact, no matter whether it is to promote the lungs or to clear the lungs, this is a kind of Chinese medicine for the treatment of lung diseases.。In Chinese medicine, the treatment of lung disease can be divided into eight methods: promoting lung, purging lung, clearing lung, diarrhea, warming lung, moistening lung, tonifying lung and astringing lung.This is based on the different conditions that cause lung disease and thus the different treatments used.

I. What is lung promotion?

First of all, we have to know, according to Chinese medicine, the lungs in our body is the main propaganda and dispersal, through the lungs to the upward propaganda and outward dispersal of the function of the lungs, that is, to inhale the clear air of nature, exhale the body's turbid gas, and the spleen to transfer the fluid and water and grain essence micro-containment is also transferred to the whole body, so that the Wei qi outwardly in the skin, regulating the coupling of open and close, and metabolism after the fluid into the sweat, and then by the sweat holes out of the body.

However, if for some reason caused by our lung qi failure to diffuse, that is, the lungs of the diffusion of obstacles, then it will cause both can not be very good diffusion of Wei qi, easy to feel the attack of foreign evils, so that the coupling closed, and ultimately caused by foreign evils can not be discharged out of the body through the sweat hole; in addition, it will also cause our body because of the function of the diffusion of fluid is weakened, which can result in the body of the fluid stagnation of lungs and thus become phlegm.

The main reason for the lung's diffusion obstacles is to feel the wind and cold, when these wind and cold evil body, the easiest is to violate our lungs, it will bind our lung's diffusion function, resulting in these wind and cold air has been in our body, resulting in coughing, shortness of breath, phlegm, chest tightness, etc., and the patient is often accompanied by no sweating, nasal congestion, fear of the cold, cold, thin tongue coating white and other symptoms.

Therefore, for this kind of lung disease caused by the loss of lung qi to diffuse, then it is necessary to adopt the method of lung promotion to treat, that is, to disperse those wind-cold evil qi retained in the body, it is necessary to adopt the pungent and dispersive medicines to open the occluded coupling, so as to make the lung's function of diffusion return to normal. Therefore, when promoting the lungs, the use of such pungent and dispersive Chinese medicines as ephedra, northern almonds, orris, aster, perilla, and so on should be adopted, so as to achieve the effect of promoting and promoting the lungs' qi, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

Second, what is lung-clearing?

In Chinese medicine, clearing the lungs mainly refers to clearing lung heat, that is to say, lung diseases caused by heat evils invading the lungs, that is to say, when there is fire in the lungs and heat in the lungs, it is necessary to clear these heat evils with medicines to clear heat and reduce fire, so as to play a therapeutic role. If we don't clear these heat evils in time, then these heat evils will cause lung heat, which will make the fluid in our lungs deficient, resulting in symptoms such as coughing and shortness of breath, sore throat, yellow sputum, dry mouth, thirst, body heat and no cold, and red tongue with yellow coating.

And there is nothing more common to us than wind-heat cold, which is heat evil attacking the lungs, and this thing needs to be carried out to clear the lungs, and use heat-clearing and fire-reducing medicines to clear away the heat evil, then the symptoms will be effectively improved. Therefore, when clearing the lungs, medicines such as mulberry leaf, gypsum, thatched root, bamboo root, fritillary, wild scutellaria and other medicines should be used, so as to achieve the effect of clearing the lung heat, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.

White phlegm lumps are formed when the fluid in the lungs is stagnant due to the cold evil invading the lungs. White phlegm is an indicator to identify the problem of cold evils invading the lungs, including feeling the wind and cold evils of nature and the lack of yang energy in one's own internal organs and the formation of yang deficiency and internal cold.

Third, then, when white phlegm appears, should it be treated with lung-expanding or lung-clearing therapy?

In Chinese medicine, the formation of white phlegm is often caused by wind-cold cold, which is due to the wind-cold into the body, resulting in the weakening of our body's function of dispersal of fluids, so that the body's fluids stagnate in the lungs, thus becoming white phlegm.。

Therefore, if it is wind-cold cold caused by white phlegm, in the treatment method is generally used to promote the lung method of treatment, the use of some pungent drugs, can open our closed pores, then the invasion of the body will be dispersed out of the cold. When the cold is dispersed, then our lungs will resume their normal function, play the role of Xuanfa Suxiong, the body's fluid can also run normally, then naturally will not form white phlegm again.

Of course, white phlegm is just a symptom of the disease, Chinese medicine treatment also need to be through the look and smell and ask to dialectic, if just white phlegm is not necessarily wind-cold cold caused by the cold, it can also be some other diseases caused by.Especially the patient in this article has been white sputum for several years, this disease that causes white sputum actually more should be considered chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, interstitial pneumonitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic pharyngolaryngitis and other chronic lung diseases caused by.

In general, clearing the lungs and promoting the lungs are two different means of treating lung diseases in Chinese medicine. Promoting the lungs generally involves the use of dispersing herbs, while clearing the lungs generally involves the use of fire-dispersing herbs.. If you analyze the color of the sputum alone, white sputum is often caused by wind-cold and can be treated by promoting the lungs, while yellow sputum is often caused by lung-heat and can be treated by clearing the lungs.

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Original. Cough, cough white sputum is generally a respiratory infection, and is a viral infection is more common, Chinese medicine is considered to be caused by wind-cold bundle lungs, wind-cold bundle lungs, the lungs and fluids are not cloth, gathered into phlegm, with the lungs upward, cough, cough white sputum. The author treats mild cases of neococcal pneumonia with this symptom most often, blood routine often C-reactive protein will be elevated. The white blood cells will be mildly reduced or normal, and sometimes there will be a mild increase in eosinophils. The Chinese medicine dialectic to identify to identify, round and round or small Qinglong plus three son to raise relatives used the most smooth. That being said, it is more reliable to differentiate between heat and cold by sputum thickness than by sputum color, because sputum is also cold when it is thin and yellow. In this case, patients often answer you: phlegm yellow.

Is white phlegm promoting or clearing the lungs?

The pathology of white phlegm is characterized by cold phlegm or phlegm turbidity. The principle of treatment, appropriately, is: to promote the lungs to move qi, strengthen the spleen and resolve phlegm.

The etiology (cause) of white phlegm production, is threefold.

1The wind and cold evils from the outside invade the lungs, the lungs lose declination, the qi is not smooth, the water and dampness stop internally, and the phlegm accumulates and is born.

2The spleen and stomach are damaged by uncontrolled diet, and when the spleen loses its healthy movement, water and dampness are stored internally, and the accumulated dampness produces phlegm, which is returned to the lungs.

3The phlegm and salivary fluid are constantly accumulating in the lungs from the middle jiao, or the phlegm and dampness are prevalent in the body, and the phlegm and salivary fluid are constantly accumulating in the lungs from the middle jiao.

Lung is the vessel for storing phlegm, white phlegm congestion, lung qi is not smooth. Only by promoting lung qi can the qi be energized and the xiao descending freely.

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Hello, glad to answer your question. Is white phlegm a way of declaring or clearing the lungs? What is the difference between Xuan and Qing? This is explained from two aspects, one is the diagnostic aspect, long-term coughing white sputum consider a variety of chronic respiratory diseases, such as chronic pharyngolaryngitis, chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, interstitial pneumonitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and so on. The symptoms associated with different respiratory diseases are not consistent, and need to be clarified by the respiratory physician by means of lung CT, blood cell analysis, and blood oxygenation test. The second aspect is the difference between declaring the lungs and clearing the lungs, which is part of the theory of Chinese medicine. The so-called declaring the lungs refers to declaring the lung qi, and the purpose of declaring the lung qi is to disperse the wind and cold evil qi felt by the human body, targeting at the cough and phlegm caused by the wind-cold offense of the lungs, and the phlegm can be white due to the cold induced stagnation of the lung fluids and may appear as a symptom of phlegm. And the symptoms, mostly accompanied by wind-cold evidence or yang deficiency caused by internal cold discomfort, no sweating, nasal congestion, fear of cold loose stools, tongue coating thin white and other systemic symptoms. The so-called clear lung refers to the clearing of lung heat, for the heat evil invasion of the lungs, frying lung fluid lung heat evidence, lung heat burn lung fluid, fluid solidification is boiled, often will form yellow sticky phlegm, and accompanied by a dry mouth constipation, tongue red pulse number of systemic symptoms of heat.

To summarize, yellow phlegm is used to clear the lungs, white phlegm is often used to promote the lungs, but we also need to analyze the patient's overall performance, I often come across some chronic inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, that is, prolonged coughing and wheezingphlegmAt this point, to identify the etiology of chronic cough and asthma, for example, lung and spleen deficiency, kidney qi deficiency leads to water and fluid can not be transported, stagnation in the lungs to form a white phlegm, treatment should be tonic spleen and lungs, or warming the yang and tonifying the kidneys as the main, declaring the lungs is only an auxiliary method, is not the main direction of treatment, the "evidence of the treatment of the Huichang Supplement," which said that "the spleen for the birth of phlegm, the lungs for the storage of phlegm of the device! "This means that it is crucial to identify which organ is at fault for the formation of white phlegm, and not to assume that phlegm is only a problem of lung disorder. Next, Dr. Zhu will summarize the commonly used methods to promote and clear the lungs for you to see.

There is even a kind of non-phlegm and non-drinking, sometimes spitting white foam, not very thick and sticky, this spleen deficiency can not restrain the fluid - Medical Zong Bian Zhi Reader

★ "Seon lung" is like opening the window of a cold room and letting out cool air.

• Chinese medicine believes that the lungs open the orifices in the nose, and the natural world, the lungs of the Xuanfa and Suxiong is constantly inhaling clear gas, exhaling and discharging turbid gas, in this physiological process, the lungs are most susceptible to the outside world of wind, cold, summer, humidity, dryness and fire and other evil influences, the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine," will be called the lungs ".娇脏", because of its delicate texture, can not tolerate cold and heat and other turbid stimulation, do not allow any impurities infringement, the slightest impact will cause the lungs of the XuanDaSuShuiDian unfavorable, causing lung qi upward, cough, lung qi depression after the stagnation of lung fluid will appear cough phlegm phenomenon.
• The color of the phlegm can identify the nature of the feeling of the evil, as a reference condition, due to the cold evil invasion of the lungs, caused by the stagnation of the lung fluid, the formation of white phlegm. White phlegm is an indicator to identify the cold evil invading the lungs, including the feeling of wind-cold evil in nature and the lack of yang energy in one's own internal organs, and the formation of the problem of yang deficiency and internal cold.
• Cold evil stagnation of fluid, the formation of cold and damp stagnation in the lungs, the lungs at this time is just like a cold storage, cold and damp, cold phlegm production, resulting in the human body coughing, coughing phlegm symptoms, you need to use XuanDaLongQi drugs to dispel cold evil, due to the lungs main hair, XuanDaLongQi is equivalent to open the pores, to the cold evil discharge to open up the channel.
• The smell of pungent, with the characteristics of fragrance, pungent medicine at the same time with the characteristics of outward dispersion, as if eating a mouthful of chili pepper, suddenly feel sweating all over the body, penetrating the pores of the feeling. This kind of pungent flavor goes away, the medicinal property of warming up is the main selective drugs to promote lung.

• Promoting lung qi and opening the pores is like opening the window of a cold room to dispel the cold inside, after the cold is gone, the lung qi can resume normal promotion and purging, and the fluid can run, and the problem of white phlegm can be lifted naturally.
• In contrast, yellow sputum is mostly associated with infectious diseases of the lungs, such as lung infections and acute attacks of chronic bronchitis. Yellow phlegm is sticky and thick, indicating that the fluid in the lungs is being fried by heat, so phlegm-heat embracing the lungs is mostly yellow sticky phlegm, which needs to be taken to clear the lungs.

Due to external evils, if the evils are dispersed, the phlegm may be cleared, such as cold phlegm and warm phlegm, hot phlegm and clear phlegm, wet phlegm and dry phlegm, dry phlegm and wet phlegm, wind phlegm and dispersed phlegm.

★ "Clearing the lungs" is like a fire extinguisher that cools and extinguishes the heat in the lungs.

• Yellowish sputum is one of the indicators of lung heat recognitionThe first time, but not absolutely, some patients, especially young children, the beginning of the cold cough, sputum color white, after two days after the sputum color and turn yellow, yellow sputum at this time may be exogenous wind-cold lungs, the lungs are depressed and closed to the heat caused by the relief of the lungs to disperse the cold is still the main treatment method.
• Lung heat is stagnant and closed in the lungs, causing the fluid to be fried and yellow phlegm is formed. Selecting bitter and cold medicines that clear lung fire and attack the stagnant heat in the lung qi directly, the heat can be cleared away, and yellow phlegm can be eliminated more often than not.

• Clearing the lungs is like a fire extinguisher, applicable to acute fire-heat evil problems, mostly used in acute infectious diseases of short duration, acute onset, rapid onset, systemic symptoms are often accompanied by the manifestation of the heat evil fumigation, such as dry mouth and tongue, fever obvious, constipation and yellow urine, red tongue and pulse, such as insufficient fluid problems.

Whenever phlegm is activated by fire, it is appropriate to treat the fire first; when phlegm is generated by cold, it is appropriate to warm the center--Ming Zhang Jingyue Jingyue Quanshu (The Complete Works of Jingyue)

summarize

Simply from the analysis of phlegm color, the treatment method of clearing the lungs is mostly used for lung-heat and phlegm-yellow evidence, and the treatment method of declaring the lungs is mostly used for lung meridian wind-cold evidence. The actual diagnosis and treatment ideas should be combined with the patient's overall performance, to identify and analyze, not to the color of phlegm and arbitrarily take Xuan, clear the lungs and other therapeutic means, traditional Chinese medicine believes that the human body is an organic whole, the internal organs of each other nourishing constraints, a visceral disorders may involve other internal organs, the "Classic of Internal Medicine", "the internal organs of the six organs are all coughing," meaning that attention should be paid to identify the nature of the disease, but also to identify the nature of the disease. The meaning is to pay attention to identify the nature of the disease. I found in the clinic, most of the patients with bronchial dilatation sputum color yellow, but the whole does not have the performance of lung heat, more patients are afraid of cold, loose, weakness and shortness of breath, a faction of the spleen and kidney deficiency and cold problems, often this time to be careful to use the bitter and cold to clear the discharge of the lungs of the medicine, pay attention to the main contradiction of the disease, to distinguish between the primary and secondary, to take the complementary discharge and take into account the combination of Xuan Lung clear lungs, if necessary.

Chronic phlegm should be diagnosed and, if necessary, a medical professional should be consulted to avoid delays in the diagnosis of the disease.

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Chinese medicine classifies phlegm into two narrow and broad sense, white phlegm formed by cold and dampness is due to the spleen's loss of transportation and transformation, the water and grain essence can not get its place, the accumulation of phlegm and saliva.

When sputum is thin and grayish-white mucus-like sputum, the following medications are available:

First, ammonium chloride syrup: acidic salt, due to moderate nausea and reflex increase in the watery secretion of the respiratory tract, and partially absorbed by the respiratory secretion of water, both superimposed, so that sputum becomes thin and easy to cough up. Applicable to the early stage of infection, sputum is less viscous and not easy to cough out.

Second, compound licorice oral solution: the main ingredients for the compound tincture of camphor (containing morphine), licorice infusion cream and other ingredients, morphine can directly inhibit the cough center, hay covered in the inflamed mucous membranes of the pharynx, reduce cough reflex.

Third, Chinese medicine: Chinese medicine is prepared by a number of medicines according to the ruler and minister, they have both cough and expectorant effect, and small side effects, such as acute syrup, cough syrup, fresh bamboo lee, loquat syrup, pear cream and orange red expectorant liquid.