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　　What are the causes of heat cough

　　Heat cough, if not treated appropriately, can cause pneumonia, manifested as normal or slightly low white blood cells, and those with elevated levels may have secondary bacterial infection. Complications are rare in healthy children, but in children with malnutrition, low immune function, congenital respiratory tract malformations, chronic nasopharyngitis, rickets, and other children, not only are they prone to bronchitis, but also prone to complications such as otitis media, laryngitis, and sinusitis.

　　Heat cough refers to cough caused by wind-heat. The main symptoms include yellow and thick sputum that is not easy to cough out, dry and painful throat, thirst, often accompanied by fever, headache, dizziness, red tongue, thin yellow fur, floating or floating rapid pulse.

　　Heat cough is one of the TCM diseases. Generally, the prevention of this disease should pay attention to the following points:

　　1. Pay attention to changes in weather, keep the air in the room circulating, strengthen household hygiene, keep the temperature and humidity moderate, and especially pay attention to adjusting and controlling in abnormal weather conditions.

　　2. Prevent the stimulation of dust and special odors. Have a light diet, eat less rich and sweet foods, spicy刺激性 foods, and avoid drinking alcohol to prevent injury to Yin and dryness, which may assist heat.

　　3. For those with a lot of phlegm, try to expel the phlegm, and you can turn over and pat the back to help expel the phlegm.

　　4. Participate in physical exercise appropriately to enhance physical fitness and improve the ability to resist diseases.

　　Patients with heat cough should not only receive timely treatment but can also try the following food therapy recipes, which are quite effective.

　　Baimu 5 grams, rice 30 grams, sugar to taste. Select and clean Baimu, put it in a pot, add an appropriate amount of clean water, soak for 5-10 minutes, then decoct and take the juice, add rice to cook porridge, add sugar when cooked, boil for one or two boils and serve, or grind Baimu into powder, take 1 gram of medicine powder each time, mix it with porridge and take it, once or twice a day, for 3-5 days continuously. It can resolve phlegm, relieve cough, clear heat and ventilate the lung.

　　The differentiation of hot cough should distinguish external and internal injury. External hot cough is often caused by wind-heat attacking the lung, and internal injury is due to functional disorders of the viscera, with different symptoms of phlegm-heat, liver fire, and lung yin deficiency.

　　1, Wind-heat attacking the lung

　　Symptoms: Frequent and severe cough, rough or hoarse coughing sound, dry throat and sore throat, uncomfortable sputum, sticky or yellow sputum. Often accompanied by yellow nasal mucus, thirst, headache, limb ache, or body heat, slightly aversion to wind, sweating. Thin yellow fur, floating and rapid or floating and slippery pulse.

　　Treatment principle: Dispel wind and heat, ventilate the lung and relieve cough. Main recipe: Sangju Decoction.

　　Ingredients: Sangye, Juhuahui, Bohe, Jiegeng, Xingren, Gancao, Lianqiao, Lugen.

　　2, Phlegm-heat stagnation in the lung

　　Symptoms: Coughing with rough breathing, thick and sticky or yellow sputum, difficult to cough up, or coughing up blood-stained sputum, chest and胁 fullness, coughing causes pain, face red, or body heat, dry mouth and desire to drink. Red tongue, thick yellow greasy coating, slippery and rapid pulse.

　　Treatment principle: Clear heat and resolve phlegm, invigorate the lung and relieve cough. Main recipe: Qingjin Huanyan Decoction.

　　Ingredients: Huangqin, Zhimu, Shanzao, Sangbaipi, Fuling, Beimu, Guoluo, Jiegeng, Chenpi, Gancao, Maidong.

　　3, Liver fire attacking the lung

　　Symptoms: Gas reflux causing cough in阵, coughing with face red and eyes red, dry throat and bitter mouth, often feeling phlegm stuck in the throat, difficult to cough out, small amount, sticky quality, coughing causes chest pain, symptoms can increase or decrease with mood fluctuations. Red tongue, thin yellow coating, wiry and rapid pulse.

　　Treatment principle: Clear the lung and liver, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.

　　Main recipe: Huangqin Xiaobai Powder combined with Dieha Powder. Ingredients: Qingdai, Haigeke, Huangqin, Sangbaipi, Diguipi, Xiangmi, Gancao.

　　4, Deficiency of lung yin

　　Symptoms: Dry cough, short and rapid coughing sound, thin and sticky white sputum, or blood mixed with sputum, dry mouth and throat, or voice gradually hoarse, or afternoon feverishness, red cheeks, night sweats, gradual weight loss, fatigue, red tongue, thin coating, thready and rapid pulse.

　　Treatment principle: Nourish yin and clear heat, moisten the lung and relieve cough.

　　Main recipe: Shashen Maidong Decoction. Ingredients: Shashen, Maidong, Yuju, Tianhuafen, Sangye, Gancao, Biandou.