Pathogenesis and treatment of Acute pneumonia in traditional Chinese Medicine

Pneumonia is usually acute, with prominent symptoms and strong reactions, such as high fever, cough, expectoration, blood in sputum, chest pain or dyspnea, and some even coma and delirium. But infant pneumonia, symptoms are often not obvious, may only be a slight cough, so infants have cough and other cold symptoms to see a doctor in time. There are actually many causes of pneumonia, including bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites, allergies, radiation, inhalation of foreign bodies, and so on.

These are all explained by Western medicine, but pneumonia already has a certain place in people's hearts, and it is a more serious disease. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, to put it simply, after people feel the evil qi such as wind, cold, heat and dryness, the internal environment of the lung tract has changed. To put it more complicated, it can be traced back to ancient medical works, such as lung obstruction and asthma, lung wind and phlegm asthma, and so on. For example, pneumonia is listed as one of the common diseases in internal medicine and pediatrics in the living Book of measles.

Pneumonia in traditional Chinese medicine, that is, lung closed asthma cough, lung wind and phlegm asthma, etc., the symptoms are also fever, cough, phlegm, asthma and so on, the causes are mostly caused by exogenous wind-cold or wind-heat, invading the lungs, and closely related to people's endowment, that is, physique. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is said that "the lung governs qi and is open to the nose". If people are in charge and regulate the rise and fall of qi, people's endowment is insufficient, which may also lead to lack of lung qi and low resistance, making it difficult to expel external evils.

Therefore, it is not only easy to catch a cold, but also easy to lead to the rapid development of "acute pneumonia". In treatment, it depends on whether it is virus, bacteria or others, and it depends on acute or chronic, bacterial pneumonia, the curative effect of western medicine is obvious and rapid, it can be treated by western medicine, the root cause of traditional Chinese medicine and the combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine. Chronic, viral pneumonia, or bronchopneumonia, the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine is better than western medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine adopts treatment methods such as Shufeng Xuanshuang, expelling phlegm and relieving asthma, clearing heat and detoxification, Shengjin and relieving thirst, etc., available prescriptions include Ma Xing Shigan decoction, Shengmai San, Sanhuang Gypsum decoction, Shashen Ophiopogon decoction and so on.