Cough Flashcards
What three factors can cause cough?
Invasion of wind-cold, wind-heat, or wind-dryness, emotions, or improper diet.
What is the difference between external and internal cough?
External has sudden onset with chills and fever, internal cough is long, repeated, and sometimes combined with asthma.
What does an excess cough versus a deficiency cough sound like?
Excess is strong and frequent with loud sound, deficiency is weak and intermittent cough with low voice.
What does cough with less sputum indicate?
Dryness, heat, and yin deficiency.
What does cough with profuse sputum indicate?
Phlegm, cold, phlegm heat.
What does cough with white and clear and thin sputum indicate?
Wind, cold.
What does yellow and sticky sputum indicate?
Heat.
What does white, clear, and foamed sputum indicate?
Deficiency, cold.
What does bloody sputum indicate?
Heat, yin deficiency.
What does alternate blood and pus in the sputum indicate?
Accumulation of phlegm and heat and leading to abscess.
What does hot breathe with foul smell indicate?
Phlegm heat.
What does sweet taste in the mouth indicate?
Damp-phlegm.
What does salty taste in the mouth indicate?
Deficiency of KI.
What are the seven patterns of cough?
Wind-cold invading the LU, wind-heat attacking the LU, external dryness in LU, accumulation of damp-phlegm in LU, phlegm fire, LV-fire counter acting on LU, and deficiency of LU yin.
Which pattern includes cough with white sputum, nasal obstruction with white running nose, aversion to cold, a little bit fever, headache, general aching, reddish tongue, thin white coating, floating and tight pulse?
Wind-cold invading the LU.
What is the tx principle for wind-cold invading the LU?
Disperse wind, expel cold, regulate LU qi, and stop pain.
What are the formulas for wind-cold invading the LU?
San ao tang and zhi sou san.
What are the points for wind-cold invading the LU?
UB-13, LU-7, LI-4.
Which pattern includes cough with yellow and sticky sputum, difficulty to spit out, dry and sore throat, fever, headache, red tongue tip, thin yellow coating, floating and rapid pulse?
Wind-heat attacking the LU.
What is the tx principle for wind-heat attacking the LU?
To clear heat and disperse cold.
What is the formula for wind-heat attacking the LU?
San ju yin.
What are the ingredients in san ju yin?
sang ye, ju hua, lian qiao, bo he, jie geng, xing ren, lu gen, gan cao.
What are some points for wind-heat attacking LU?
UB-13, LU-11 for sore and swollen throat, DU-14, SJ-5 for fever, aversion to cold.
Which pattern includes dry cough without any sputum, or very less and sticky sputum, difficulty in spitting out, and even bloody sputum, dry nose and throat, choking or pain in the chest, chills, fever, headache, constipation, red tongue, less coating, thready and rapid pulse?
External dryness in LU.
