慢性咳嗽证治体会

Experience of chronic cough therapy

慢性咳嗽病因系外感与内伤互为因果,表证多不明显,风、痰、寒等病理产物夹杂,加之久病耗气伤阴,燥热内生,病久者或可兼夹瘀血导致气血不通畅,气机不利是疾病久治不愈的关键。

The chronic cough is caused by exogenous pathogens and internal damages interacting as both cause and effect, with unobvious exterior syndrome of exogenous pathogens. Wind, phlegm and cold pathogens mix together. Meanwhile, given that the long illness may stagnate Qi and impair Yin, and bring up the endogeny of dry-heat, the blood stasis produced can disorder Qi movement which may become the key to this chronic illness.