Acute Tracheobronchitis
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
主症：咳嗽，痰白，痰清稀，恶寒，舌苔薄白，脉浮或浮紧。次症：鼻塞，流清涕，咽痒，发热，无汗，肢体酸痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Cough with white, relatively thin and clear sputum
- Aversion to cold, chills
- Thin white coating on the tongue
- Pulse feels superficial or tight (noted during examination)
- Nasal congestion with clear watery nasal discharge
- Itchy throat
- May have fever
- Little or no sweating
- Generalized body aches, soreness and discomfort
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏风散寒，宣肺止咳
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Disperse external Wind-Cold from the body surface to help relieve cold-induced discomfort such as chills, headache, body aches, and clear nasal discharge.
- Open and regulate Lung Qi to help relieve cough, expectoration, chest tightness, and make breathing smoother.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
主症：咳嗽，痰黄，咽干甚则咽痛，发热，恶风，舌尖红，舌苔黄，脉浮或浮数。次症：痰黏稠，咯痰不爽，鼻塞，流浊涕，鼻窍干热，咽痒，口渴，舌苔薄
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Cough with yellow, sticky sputum
- Dry throat, which may become sore in severe cases
- Fever
- Sensitivity to wind with chills
- Red tip of the tongue
- Yellow tongue coating (sometimes thin)
- Pulse feels superficial or rapid (noted during examination)
- Difficulty expectorating sputum
- Nasal congestion with turbid, thick nasal discharge
- Dry and hot sensation in the nasal passages
- Itchy throat
- Thirst with a desire to drink more water
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏风清热，宣肺化痰
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Release external Wind-Heat from the body surface, clear heat and reduce fire, to help relieve discomfort such as fever, headache, sore throat, and nasal congestion.
- Open and regulate Lung Qi, resolve Phlegm-Dampness to help ease cough, make sputum thinner and easier to expectorate, and promote smoother breathing.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
主症：干咳，咳嗽，唇鼻干燥，口干，咽干甚则咽痛，舌苔薄，脉浮。次症：痰黏难以咯出，口渴，发热，恶风，舌尖红，舌苔薄黄或薄白干，脉数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Dry cough or cough with very little sputum
- Dry lips and nose
- Dry mouth with a desire to drink water
- Dry throat, which may become sore in severe cases
- Very thin tongue coating
- Pulse feels superficial (noted during examination)
- Thick, sticky sputum that is difficult to expectorate
- May have fever
- Sensitivity to wind with chills
- Red tip of the tongue
- Thin yellow or thin white and dry tongue coating
- Pulse tends to be rapid (noted during examination)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清肺润燥，疏风清热
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear lung heat, moisten dryness, to help relieve discomfort such as dry cough, scanty difficult-to-expectorate sputum, dry sore throat, and chest tightness.
- Disperse external Wind-Heat and reduce fire to help relieve symptoms such as fever, headache, sore throat, and nasal congestion.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
主症：咳嗽，痰黄，痰黏稠，舌质红，舌苔黄腻，脉滑或滑数。次症：痰多，咯痰不爽，口渴，胸闷，发热，大便秘结
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Cough
- Yellow, very thick and sticky sputum
- Reddish tongue with yellow, relatively thick and sticky coating
- Pulse feels slippery or rapid (noted during examination)
- Profuse sputum that is difficult to clear completely
- Thirst with a desire to drink more water
- Chest tightness
- May have fever
- Dry, hard stools or constipation
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热化痰，下气止咳
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Reduce fever and inflammation, resolve sticky phlegm to make sputum thinner and easier to expectorate, and help relieve discomfort such as thick yellow sputum and sticky throat.
- Direct Qi downward to relieve the sensation of rebellious Qi causing chest oppression and shortness of breath, reduce coughing episodes, and promote smoother breathing.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
主症：咳嗽，痰多，痰白黏或有泡沫，舌苔白或白腻，脉滑。次症：痰易咯出，口黏腻，胸闷，纳呆，食少，胃脘痞满，舌边齿痕，脉弦或脉濡
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Cough
- Profuse, white, sticky sputum, sometimes frothy
- White coating on the tongue, or white and slightly thick-sticky coating
- Pulse feels slippery (noted during examination)
- Sputum is relatively easy to expectorate
- Sticky sensation in the mouth, feeling unclear and heavy
- Chest tightness
- Poor appetite, unable to eat much
- Epigastric distension, fullness, and discomfort
- Teeth marks on the edges of the tongue
- Pulse may be taut, or soft and weak (noted during examination)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾燥湿，化痰止咳
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Regulate Spleen and Stomach functions, remove excess Dampness, to help relieve symptoms such as sticky mouth, poor appetite, and abdominal bloating.
- Resolve sticky phlegm, reduce cough, make sputum thinner and easier to expectorate, and relieve chest tightness and shortness of breath.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
主症：咳嗽，气短，乏力，自汗，动则加重，畏风寒，舌质淡，舌苔白，脉弱或细。次症：神疲，易感冒，舌苔薄，脉沉或缓
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Cough
- Slight shortness of breath, more noticeable after exertion
- Easily fatigued, lack of strength
- Spontaneous sweating even at rest, worse after activity
- Aversion to wind and cold
- Pale tongue with white or thin white coating
- Pulse tends to be weak or thready (noted during examination)
- Low energy, easily feels tired and sleepy
- Susceptible to common colds
- Pulse may be deep or slow (noted during examination)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补肺益气，宣肺止咳
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Strengthen Lung function, supplement physical strength and resistance, to help improve shortness of breath, fatigue, easy sweating, and susceptibility to colds.
- Open and regulate Lung Qi, facilitate expectoration of sputum, reduce cough and chest tightness, and promote smoother breathing.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
主症：咳嗽，少痰，干咳，神疲，乏力，动则加重，易感冒，自汗，盗汗，舌质红，舌苔少，脉细。次症：气短，畏风，手足心热，口干，口渴，舌体胖大甚至舌边齿痕或瘦小，舌质淡或红，舌苔薄或花剥，脉沉或数或弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Cough with scanty sputum or dry cough
- Easily fatigued, lack of energy, more obvious after activity
- Susceptible to common colds
- Spontaneous sweating even at rest, night sweats
- Reddish tongue with very little coating
- Pulse is thready (noted during examination)
- Slight shortness of breath
- Aversion to wind
- Palms and soles feel warm or hot
- Dry mouth and thirst
- Tongue may be enlarged with teeth marks, or thin and small; color may be pale or reddish
- Thin or partially peeled coating with patchy appearance
- Pulse may be deep, rapid, or weak (noted during examination)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养阴，润肺止咳
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Supplement physical strength and nourish body fluids to help relieve fatigue, dry mouth and throat, and night sweats.
- Moisten the Lungs, reduce airway dryness, resolve phlegm and stop cough, and promote smoother breathing.
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