After the beginning of autumn, due to the large temperature difference between morning and evening and the dry weather, the number of people suffering from respiratory diseases such as coughs and colds has increased significantly. Many people have symptoms of itchy throat cough, dry cough and less phlegm, and it is difficult to stop coughing once they cough. Especially the tense urban life rhythm, overwork and bad living habits, etc., cause the body's immunity to decline. Under the stimulation of climate change, the body's regulation is prone to lose balance, and then the autumn cough occurs.
This kind of dry autumn cough is mistaken for a cold. Many people think they are having a cold and take cold medicine to treat it by themselves. In fact, autumn cough is caused by the invasion of the human body by dry evil in autumn. Blindly using irrelevant cold medicines, antibiotics, etc. will gradually lose the body's positive energy and aggravate the condition. Using cough-relieving drugs such as compound licorice tablets to relieve cough is to treat symptoms but not root causes, and often cover up the patient's symptoms and delay treatment. Once a more serious cough occurs, the cause and the right medicine should be found. Do not take cough-relieving drugs or antibiotics casually.
Autumn dry cough is generally divided into two types: warm dry and cool dry , which have different characteristics in prevention and treatment. Warm and dryness usually occur in early autumn, and have the characteristics of coughing less phlegm, not easy to cough out, dry throat and dry nose. In terms of treatment, it mainly relieves wind and clears heat, moistens the lungs and relieves cough. Cool and dryness usually occur after the Mid-Autumn Festival and are often confused with colds, such as headache, chills, fever, but no sweat or phlegm. In terms of treatment, it is mainly to evacuate wind and cold, moisten the lungs and relieve cough. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes syndrome differentiation and treatment, and the use of medicine varies from person to person. When autumn cough is severe, it is best to receive decoction treatment. After the condition stabilizes, Chinese patent medicines can be used to stabilize the efficacy.
The reason why coughs occur in autumn is mainly related to the following three aspects:
On the one hand, the climate in autumn is relatively dry, the lungs are delicate, and they like to moisturize and hate dryness. When the air is dry, the airway mucosa is easily damaged. This is what traditional Chinese medicine calls dry evil damage the lungs, and the lungs lose their vitality, so coughs occur frequently; on the other hand, as the temperature gradually decreases, the cold evil increases, which makes it easy to have high coughs. In addition, in the autumn and winter, viruses such as flu rise again, which is also a cause of high incidence of coughs. So what should I do if I accidentally get a cough in autumn?
Three types of autumn cough, the right way to deal with
The season of autumn and winter alternating, more and more people around you are coughing. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that these are all external coughs induced by wind, cold, dryness and evil. External cough is mainly divided into wind-cold attacking the lung syndrome, wind-heat attacking the lung syndrome, and wind-drying damage to the lung syndrome. According to the traditional Chinese medicine health theory, diet therapy, cupping, scraping and other special Chinese medicine therapies are very effective in relieving different external coughs. You might as well "take the right seat" and find out your own treatment method.
Wind and cold attack lung syndrome. This syndrome is characterized by severe cough, white and thin sputum, clear nausea, headache, chills and fever, etc. When the initial symptoms are not serious, you can massage the acupoints such as Lieque , Chize, and Feishu . The specific methods are: take Lieque (the left and right hands cross the tiger's mouth, and one index finger presses on the radial process of the other hand, and the depression reaches the tip of the index finger), Chize (the crescent elbow, the radial depression in the middle of the horizontal line of the elbow), and Feishu (located below the spinous process of the thoracic vertebrae of the third thoracic vertebrae of the third thoracic vertebrae of the human back, and the width of the two fingers on the left and right sides), rub the abdomen of the thumb clockwise about 50 times, and then press the abdomen of the thumb about 20 times, which is appropriate to feel sore and swelling. If you have severe coughing and sputum, you can go to the hospital and ask the doctor to take the above three acupoints for cupping. After cupping, drink more hot water and rest more.
Wind-heat attack lung syndrome. It is manifested as frequent coughing, unpleasant phlegm, sticky or yellow phlegm, accompanied by symptoms such as runny nose, thirst, headache and heat. When you cough in the early stage, you can take Chinese medicine tea drinks that relieve wind and clear heat, relieve lungs and relieve cough. The specific recipe is: take mulberry leaves , wild chrysanthemum , loquat leaves , platycodon , put the above medicines into a teacup and use boiling water, simmer for 10 to 15 minutes before drinking. If the symptoms cannot be relieved for 3 to 5 days using this method, you can add Chinese patent medicines such as Cold Qingre Granules , Sangjuyin Granules, Yinqiao San Granules and other Chinese patent medicines.It can also be assisted in the treatment of scraping. The specific method is: use scraping board (the texture is buffalo horn ), with the spine as the center, and 1.5 inches apart from both sides, scraping from Dazhui to spizu , focusing on scraping Dazhui Fengmen, Feishu and Du meridian. Scraping is based on the red and hot skin, and it is not necessary to force sha to areas where there is no sha or less sha.
Wind and dry lung injury syndrome. Fever cough is mostly dry and has no phlegm, or has little phlegm and sticky and difficult to cough out, or has blood in the phlegm, accompanied by dry throat and dry mouth and nose. Dry evil infringes the lungs, diet therapy is a better choice. If the cough is dry and phlegm-free, accompanied by dry throat and sore throat, you can take Wuju Drink (pear, water chestnut, Ophiopogon jelly, longan meat , lotus root, and honey. Put the above medicines in the pot and boil for 30 to 45 minutes, and take the soup as a tea drink instead). You can also eat steamed pears in Sichuan ( snowflake pear , fritillar , lily , rock sugar. Cut the pears off the stems, dig out the heart of the pears, put the Sichuan pear powder, lily, and rock sugar into the pears, cover them back into the pears, put them in a bowl, and steam them in water for 30 to 45 minutes).
After the beginning of autumn, the yang energy gradually converges, the yin energy gradually grows, and the climate gradually turns from hot to cold. Autumn is a transitional period for the yang to eliminate and grow in the body's yin and yang metabolism. Therefore, the life activities of the human body must be based on the principle of adopting yin energy.
"Su Wen·Theory of the Method of the Immortal Qi" says: If the lungs are astringent, eat sour to collect it, use sour to replenish it, and use sour to nourish it, and use spicy and purify it. The sour taste will astringently. The pungent taste will spread and relieve the lungs. Therefore, try to eat less spicy foods such as onions and ginger. You should eat more sour vegetables and foods, and eat more foods that nourish yin and moisten the lungs, such as lilies, lotus root, radish , yam , trefoil , grapefruit, apples, etc.
