Cough 咳嗽，Ke Sou
Cough 咳嗽，Ke Sou
Concept Cough is one of the major symptoms of the lungs.Its eausative factors may be exogenous or endogenous.Exogenous factors include wind cold and wind heat which attack the lung and prevent it from performing its function of dispersing and descending.Endogenous factors include disorders of the lung itself and disorders of other Zangfu organs affecting the lung
Concept • Cough is one of the major symptoms of the lungs.Its causative factors may be exogenous or endogenous.Exogenous factors include wind cold and wind heat,which attack the lung and prevent it from performing its function of dispersing and descending.Endogenous factors include disorders of the lung itself and disorders of other Zangfu organs affecting the lung
Etiology and Pathogenesis Invasion of Failure of the lung by the lung to wind cold disperse Dysfunction Exopathogenic of the lung factors Invasion of Failure of in dispersing and the lung by the lung to wind heat descending descend Obstruction ofthe lung by phlegm The rising of Endopathogenic damapness lung qi factors Liver fire attacking the lungs Cough
Etiology and Pathogenesis Exopathogenic factors Endopathogenic factors Invasion of the lung by wind cold Invasion of the lung by wind heat Failure of the lung to disperse Failure of the lung to descend Obstruction of the lung by phlegm damapness Liver fire attacking the lungs Dysfunction of the lung in dispersing and descending The rising of lung qi Cough
Differentiation
Differentiation
1.wind cold .Main Manifestations:Harsh cough with dilute whitish sputum Accompanying Symptoms and sighs:Aversion to cold,fever without sweating nasal obstruction with clear nasal discharge,itching of the throat Tongue and Pulse:A thin and white tongue coating,a floating and tense pulse
1.wind cold • Main Manifestations:Harsh cough with dilute whitish sputum • Accompanying Symptoms and sighs:Aversion to cold,fever without sweating,nasal obstruction with clear nasal discharge,itching of the throat • Tongue and Pulse:A thin and white tongue coating,a floating and tense pulse