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Chinese patterns
Lung Obstructed by Phlegm-Heat
Diagnoses

definition and etiology

» conventional diagnoses: bronchitis; bronchial asthma; pneumonia.

» etiology: excess dietary consumption of greasy foods and/or Hot foods leads to the formation of Phlegm and Heat; smoking increases Heat in the Lung and provokes formation of Phlegm; this pattern can originate with or be aggravated by Invasion of Exterior Wind-Heat.

signs and symptoms

signs and syptoms:

• barking cough

• profuse and foul-smelling yellow or green or dark phlegm

• shortness of breath

• asthma

• stuffiness of chest

» pulse: rapid, slippery, full.

» tongue: red body; thick sticky yellow coating.

course and prognosis

» principle of treatment: resolve Phlegm; clear Heat; stimulate the Lung's descending function

differential diagnosis

footnotes