Bronchitis is a chronic nonspecific inflammatory disease of bronchus caused by repeated infection of virus and bacteria. Its main clinical manifestations are "cough, expectoration and asthma". Under the induction of temperature change, decreased immunity, air pollution, allergies, smoking, mood swings and other factors, it is difficult to cure, and in severe cases, it is difficult to breathe or even go into shock. Especially for the elderly with bronchitis, it will seriously reduce the quality of life. How do patients with bronchitis recuperate at home? Chinese medicine gives you some advice.

1. Maintain hygiene and strengthen protection.

Chinese medicine believes that "virtual evil steals wind, and sometimes it is avoided." Therefore, during the epidemic period, the main way to resist external viruses is to stay at home more and go to crowded places less to "join in the fun"; At home, we should not only do necessary personal protection, but also ensure indoor environmental hygiene and maintain air circulation.

2. Balanced nutrition and diet care

The diet should be light, the ingredients should be fresh and the nutrition should be balanced. It is suggested to supplement enough high-quality protein and vitamins, drink plenty of water, and avoid seafood, alcohol, tobacco, greasy, spicy and other foods that can easily cause cough.

3. Relax and care for your emotions.

Emotional fluctuation is also one of the important factors inducing bronchitis. In ancient times, there was a record of "sorrowful lung", which meant that long-term or excessive sadness would damage lung qi. In addition, emotions are closely related to the liver. For example, anger, depression and sadness will affect the catharsis function of the liver, thus hindering the clearing of lung qi and causing bronchitis symptoms such as cough, expectoration and asthma. Therefore, maintaining a stable and comfortable mood plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of bronchitis.

4. Internal adjustment of traditional Chinese medicine

Prevention of colds: Avoiding colds can effectively prevent chronic bronchitis or acute attacks. Pay attention to the weather changes, keep warm in time and avoid catching a cold. Patients with chronic bronchitis can take some traditional Chinese medicines to prevent colds, such as Yupingfeng powder and Huangqi preparation, to enhance immunity.

Treating tea: The most important thing for bronchitis is to eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, and to prevent asthma and dyspnea caused by excessive phlegm. Treating tea, Chinese medicine uses tea to eliminate phlegm, relieve sore throat, moisten lung and relieve cough, which is an obvious method to promote the cure of bronchitis.

■ Therapeutic Tea House-Baihua Orange Grass Tea

Take 6g of Farfara Flos, 6g of Lily, 3g of Platycodon grandiflorum and 6g of Glycyrrhiza uralensis. Mash the ingredients, boil them in water for 30 minutes, and take them with water 2-3 times a day. People with severe symptoms can drink more. It can also be brewed with ground tea powder.

Chinese dietotherapy: if it develops into chronic bronchitis, Chinese medicine thinks it is related to deficiency of both lung and spleen and deficiency of both lung and kidney. Eating medicated diet with functions of invigorating spleen, tonifying lung and benefiting lung and kidney is helpful for benefiting lung, invigorating spleen, tonifying kidney, regulating qi and resolving phlegm, which is of great benefit to chronic bronchitis.

■ Diet prescription 1: Water chestnut lily duck soup

Take water chestnut 30g, lily 15g and duck 150g. Wash horseshoe, peel and mash, and wash lily. Put them into the pot together, add water, boil them with strong fire first, and then stew them with slow fire until the ducks are cooked and rotten. This prescription has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and is suitable for patients with chronic bronchitis, cough, dry throat and yellow and sticky phlegm.

■ Diet 2: Astragalus membranaceus, dried tangerine peel and lean meat.

30g of Astragalus membranaceus, 0/5g of dried tangerine peel/kloc and 200g of lean pork were taken. Cook the three together, add appropriate amount of water and cook for 90 minutes before eating. This prescription has the effects of invigorating lung and spleen, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and is suitable for chronic bronchitis with cough, white phlegm, shortness of breath and fatigue.

■ Diet 3: Sai Ren Chicken Soup

Take ginkgo and sweet almond 1 portion, 2 portions of walnut kernel and 2 portions of peanut kernel, and grind them into powder. Take 20 grams of flour and 1 egg every morning, and add a small bowl of boiled soup to take. Take it for half a year, usually from early autumn until the next spring. This prescription has the effects of strengthening the body resistance, invigorating qi and relieving asthma, and is suitable for elderly patients with chronic bronchitis who have long-term cough and asthma.

■ Dietotherapy prescription 4: ginseng porridge

Take 3 grams of ginseng powder, 2 grams of gecko powder, and 0/00 gram of glutinous rice/kloc. First, cook glutinous rice into porridge. When the porridge is hot, add gecko powder and ginseng powder, stir well and take it while it is hot. This prescription has the effects of tonifying lung and kidney, benefiting primordial qi and relieving deficiency and asthma, and is suitable for elderly patients with chronic bronchitis with deficiency of lung and kidney.

5. TCM shunt

acupuncture and moxibustion

Acupuncture is one of the commonly used methods to treat chronic bronchitis. Through acupuncture at corresponding acupoints, with the help of acupuncture's stimulating effect on acupoints and moxibustion's heat and medicine effects, yin and yang qi and blood can be reconciled, and the functions of viscera can be adjusted, which has the effects of tonifying kidney and spleen, regulating lung and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, strengthening body resistance and strengthening the body's disease resistance.

Commonly used acupoints: Shu Fei, Lieque, Hegu, Fengmen and Fengchi. Commonly used acupoints for moxibustion: Shu Fei, Fengmen, Zhongshan, Taiyuan and Pishu.

Doctors are advised to operate professionally, and patients can press the above points with their fingers if they are nursing at home.

Glass suction cup

Cupping is based on the principle of "heat is disease" in traditional Chinese medicine. Through the stimulation of cupping, pathogenic heat can be induced to go out of the body, so as to clear away heat, so that pathogenic heat can penetrate the body surface and eventually be discharged from the body, thus removing blood stasis, heat and swelling in the body. It also has certain curative effect on chronic bronchitis. Pay attention to safety when using to prevent burns.

Gongfa health care

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "healthy qi exists inside, and evil cannot be done." Enhance your own immunity and resist the invasion of diseases and pathogens. Wushu, such as Baduanjin and Tai Ji Chuan, is a characteristic method of Chinese medicine to strengthen the body, which has the functions of dredging meridians, unblocking qi and blood, strengthening the body resistance and consolidating the foundation. In Baduanjin, Tai Ji Chuan and other sports, deep, long, thin, slow, even and soft abdominal breathing can enhance the ventilation function of the lungs and enhance the vital capacity, which is beneficial to the prevention and rehabilitation of chronic bronchitis.

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Yang Yiyong

Tongji hospital affiliated to Tongji University

Chief physician of traditional Chinese medicine

Expert clinic: Tuesday and Wednesday all day.

Areas of expertise: chronic lung diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pulmonary nodules, lung tumors, etc. Acute and chronic liver diseases, such as hepatitis and cirrhosis; Gastrointestinal tumor, pancreatic tumor; Premature heart beat, stroke.

He is a member of the World Association of Chinese Oncologists, director of the Infectious Diseases Branch of the Chinese Society of Ethnic Medicine, and member of the National Professional Committee of Plaster Medicine.

Learn from famous doctors, pay attention to inheritance, give consideration to both ancient and modern times, combine disease with syndrome, seek the root of treatment, differentiate pulse diagnosis, combine four diagnosis with reference, select drugs by law, combine prescription with medicine and adjust pulse. The whole treatment process is closely linked step by step, all using traditional Chinese medicine, and also using modern medical detection means to help make a clear diagnosis and prevent misdiagnosis. Selecting drugs according to the category, the nature and taste return to the meridian, reaching the disease position.

The scope of diagnosis and treatment is wide, including all kinds of common diseases, frequently-occurring diseases and difficult and serious diseases, such as pleural effusion, ascites due to liver cirrhosis and malignant tumors. In clinical practice, he learned from the past, prescribed the right medicine, and was determined to innovate. He used the method of regulating liver to treat intractable cough and cough variant asthma, and pioneered the method of dispersing "Sanjiao" to remove dampness and detoxify pancreatic tumor, which achieved satisfactory clinical effect. Horizontal cooperation, attaching importance to scientific research, using the clinical experience and actual curative effect of Chinese herbal medicine, and Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University jointly studied the mechanism of Chinese herbal medicine compound, disassembled prescription and monomer, and revealed that the mechanism of Chinese herbal medicine on pulmonary nodules and pancreatic tumors has achieved initial results from the level of cell and molecular biology.

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