Bronchiectasis
- Phlegm-Heat Obstructing the Lung Pattern
- Phlegm-Turbidity Obstructing the Lung
- Liver Fire Invading the Lung Pattern
- Lung-Spleen Qi Deficiency Pattern
- Lung Qi and Yin Deficiency Pattern
- Lung-Kidney Deficiency Pattern
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
咳嗽痰多，咳吐黄白黏痰或脓性痰，痰中带血或痰血相间，血色鲜红，或有热腥味。舌红苔黄或黄腻，脉数或滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Cough with profuse sputum
- Yellowish-white, thick, sticky sputum, or pus-like sputum
- Bright red streaks of blood in sputum, or blood mixed with sputum, possibly with a foul, fishy smell
- Tongue tends to be red
- Tongue coating is yellow or thick and sticky
- Pulse is rapid or tends to be slippery (as noted by a practitioner)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热泻肺，化痰止血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear heat and reduce inflammation, remove “toxic heat” (analogous to infection/inflammation), and may help relieve discomfort such as fever, redness, swelling, and pain
- Invigorate blood and unblock collaterals, resolve stasis, and help expel accumulated pus (such as purulent sputum or abscesses), thereby promoting the resolution of swelling and pain and supporting recovery
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
咳痰，痰色白，痰质稠，易于咳出，胸闷，痞满，周身沉重，食少，纳呆。舌淡白，苔白腻，脉弦或滑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Cough with white, sticky sputum that is relatively easy to expectorate
- Chest tightness
- Epigastric fullness and distension with discomfort
- General heaviness and a sensation of the body being weighed down
- Poor appetite, eating little
- Tongue tends to be pale
- Tongue coating is white and sticky-thick
- Pulse may be taut or slippery (as noted by a practitioner)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
化痰降逆，宣肺止咳
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Resolve thick, sticky phlegm to thin it and make it easier to expel, helping to relieve chest tightness and the sensation of a blocked throat
- Direct qi downward and open the lung, helping to reduce coughing and the breathlessness caused by “qi rushing upward,” thereby promoting smoother breathing
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
气逆咳嗽，咳引胸胁，咳痰带血或咯血鲜红而量多，少量白黏痰，兼见口苦咽干，心烦易怒，情绪诱发。舌红苔薄白或薄黄，脉细弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Cough with a sensation of qi rushing upward and difficult breathing
- Coughing triggers pain in the chest or along the sides of the ribs
- Bright red streaks of blood in sputum, or even coughing up a significant amount of bright red blood
- Usually not much sputum; it is white and sticky
- Bitter taste in the mouth and dry throat
- Easily irritable and quick-tempered; coughing becomes worse with emotional fluctuations
- Tongue tends to be red with a thin white or thin yellow coating
- Pulse is thin and wiry (as noted by a practitioner)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清肝宁肺，凉血止血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Settle liver fire and soothe the lung, helping to relieve irritability, chest tightness, throat pain, cough, and wheezing
- Cool the “blood heat,” helping to stop bleeding related to internal heat, such as coughing up blood, blood-streaked sputum, and nosebleeds
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
咳嗽声低，咳黄白黏痰，咳痰无力，兼见乏力，自汗，头晕，纳呆，怕冷，耳鸣。舌淡红，苔薄白，脉滑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Cough sounds weak and feeble
- Expectoration of yellow or white, thick, sticky sputum
- Difficulty expectorating sputum, with a sensation of incomplete clearance
- Easily fatigued, lacking energy
- Sweats easily even without exertion
- Dizziness
- Poor appetite, unable to eat much
- Aversion to cold, easily feels cold
- Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
- Tongue is pale red with a thin white coating
- Pulse tends to be slippery (as noted by a practitioner)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾益气，化痰止咳
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Regulate the spleen and stomach and supplement physical strength, may help improve appetite and digestion, and relieve fatigue, abdominal bloating, and a sticky sensation in the mouth
- Resolve thick, sticky phlegm so it is easier to expel, helping to reduce cough, chest tightness, and shortness of breath, and promote smoother breathing
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
咳嗽，咳少量黄黏痰或脓痰，痰难咳出，咯血或痰中带血，兼见气急，自汗，盗汗，乏力懒言，口干苦，怕热，午后潮热，面部潮热，纳呆，烦躁，容易感冒，气短。舌红苔薄白，脉细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Cough
- Scanty, yellow, thick, sticky, or pus-like sputum that is difficult to expectorate
- Blood-streaked sputum, or coughing up bright red blood
- Rapid breathing and shortness of breath, even mild exertion triggers panting
- Easily sweats, night sweats
- Fatigue, low energy, reluctance to speak
- Dry mouth and bitter taste
- Aversion to heat, tends to have intermittent afternoon fever and a sensation of heat in the face
- Poor appetite, unable to eat much
- Irritability and restlessness
- Prone to catching colds
- Tongue tends to be red with a thin white coating
- Pulse is thin and slightly rapid (as noted by a practitioner)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
养阴益气，清泄虚热
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Nourish body fluids and supplement physical strength, may help relieve dry mouth and throat, night sweats, irritability, and fatigue
- Clear deficiency-induced “internal heat” (deficiency heat), helping to reduce afternoon tidal fever, heat in the palms and soles, low-grade fever, and irritability, and promote general comfort
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
阴虚者：咳嗽痰少，或痰中带血，口燥咽干，声音嘶哑，腰膝酸软，心烦少寐，骨蒸潮热，盗汗颧红，舌红少苔，脉细数
阳虚者：咳嗽，喘咳气短，胸闷隐痛，背部怯寒，四肢不温，腰膝酸软，夜间多尿，舌淡，苔白，脉细弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- (Deficiency-heat type) Cough with scanty sputum, occasionally blood-streaked
- Dry mouth and throat, voice easily becomes hoarse
- Soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees
- Irritability and poor sleep
- Afternoon or night-time flushes of heat, internal heat sensation, prone to night sweats; often malar flushing
- Tongue tends to be red with very little coating
- Pulse is thin and slightly rapid (as noted by a practitioner)
- (Cold-aversion deficiency type) Cough, easily short of breath and gasping
- Chest tightness with dull pain
- Aversion to cold in the back, cold hands and feet
- Soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees
- Frequent nighttime urination
- Tongue tends to be pale with a white coating
- Pulse is thin and weak (as noted by a practitioner)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补肺益肾
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Strengthen lung function, may help improve shortness of breath, fatigue, cough, and susceptibility to colds
- Simultaneously nourish kidney qi, may help relieve soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, aversion to cold, and frequent nighttime urination, and enhance stamina and recovery
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