Bronchial Asthma
- Cold Wheezing Pattern
- Heat Wheezing Pattern
- Wind Wheezing Pattern
- Deficiency Wheezing Pattern
- Lung-Spleen Deficiency Pattern
- Lung-Kidney Qi Deficiency Pattern
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
喉中哮鸣有声，胸膈满闷，咳痰色白，面色晦滞，或有恶寒，发热，身痛。舌质淡，苔白滑，脉浮紧
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Wheezing sound in the throat with a “whistling” noise
- Chest distension and tightness
- Coughing up white phlegm
- Dark, pale complexion
- May experience chills, shivering, or fever
- Generalized body aches
- Pale tongue with a white, slippery coating
- Pulse is superficial and tight (noted during examination)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温肺散寒，化痰利气
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Warm the lungs, dispel cold, and relieve discomfort such as chills, nasal congestion, and cough caused by exposure to cold
- Resolve sticky phlegm to make it easier to expel, regulate qi flow to direct it downward, and relieve chest tightness, shortness of breath, and difficult breathing
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
喉中哮鸣如吼，气粗息涌，胸膈烦闷，呛咳阵作，痰黄黏稠，面红，伴有发热，心烦口渴。舌质红，苔黄腻，脉滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Loud, roaring wheezing sound in the throat
- Heavy, coarse breathing with qi rushing upward in bouts
- Chest tightness, irritability, and discomfort
- Paroxysmal coughing, easily triggered and choking
- Phlegm is yellow, thick, and sticky, difficult to expel
- Flushed face
- Accompanied by fever, irritability, and thirst
- Reddish tongue with a yellow, sticky coating
- Pulse is rapid and slippery (noted during examination)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热宣肺，化痰降逆
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Reduce fever, clear heat, and open the lungs to ease breathing and relieve discomfort such as fever, sore throat, and chest tightness
- Resolve sticky phlegm for easier expectoration and direct qi downward to relieve the sensation of qi rushing upward, breathlessness, and coughing
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
时发时止，发时喉中哮鸣有声，反复发作，止时又如常人，发病前多有鼻痒、咽痒、喷嚏、咳嗽。舌淡苔白，脉浮紧
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Symptoms occur in episodes, and the person appears normal between them
- During episodes, wheezing with a “whistling” sound in the throat
- Episodes tend to recur easily
- Before an episode, there is often nasal itching, throat itching, sneezing, and coughing
- Pale tongue with a thin white coating
- Pulse is superficial and tight (noted during examination)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏风宣肺，缓急解痉，降气平喘
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Disperse external wind pathogens, open the lung qi, and alleviate nasal congestion, cough, and throat discomfort
- Relax airway spasms, relieve paroxysmal tight cough and chest constriction
- Direct qi downward to reduce shortness of breath and breathlessness, allowing smoother breathing
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
反复发作，甚则持续喘哮，咳痰无力，声低气短，动则尤甚，口唇爪甲紫绀。舌质紫黯，脉弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Symptoms recur; in severe cases, persistent shortness of breath with wheezing in the throat
- Weak cough with sensation of incomplete expectoration
- Low, weak voice and shortness of breath
- More pronounced and distressing after exertion
- Lips and nails appear purplish and dark
- Tongue is purplish and dark
- Pulse is weak (noted during examination)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温阳补虚，降气化痰
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Warm and support the body’s yang qi, boost energy, and relieve weakness manifestations such as chills and fatigue
- Direct qi downward and resolve sticky phlegm to ease expectoration, and reduce cough, chest tightness, and shortness of breath
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
平素自汗，怕风，常易感冒，每因气候变化而诱发，或倦怠无力，食少便溏，每因饮食不当而诱发，发病前喷嚏频作，鼻塞流涕。舌苔薄白，脉濡
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Tendency to sweat easily
- Aversion to wind; exposure makes one uncomfortable
- Prone to catching colds, with episodes worsening during weather changes
- Often feels tired and weak, has poor appetite, and is prone to diarrhea; episodes are more easily triggered by cold, greasy foods, or irregular eating
- Before episodes, frequent sneezing, nasal congestion, and runny nose
- Thin white tongue coating
- Pulse is soft (noted during examination)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气固卫
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Strengthen the body’s energy and enhance resistance to reduce sweating, wind aversion, and susceptibility to colds
- Stabilize the body’s defensive exterior to reduce the frequency of recurrent episodes
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
平素气息短促，动则为甚，腰酸腿软，脑转耳鸣，不耐劳累，下肢欠温，小便清长。舌淡，脉沉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Usually slightly short of breath, more pronounced after activity
- Sore lower back, weak and limp legs
- Dizziness, vertigo, ringing in the ears
- Easily fatigued, low endurance
- Cold lower legs and feet
- Clear and abundant urination, increased frequency
- Pale tongue
- Pulse is deep and thin (noted during examination)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
调补肺肾
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Regulate both lung and kidney functions, enhance vitality and resistance, and strengthen respiratory endurance
- Improve longstanding cough with shortness of breath, frequent colds, sore lower back and knees, aversion to cold, or excessive nighttime urination
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