Yellow phlegm is the yellow colored sputum that is coughed up when you cough. Phlegm is a substance made up of many components. Its high fluid content is the result of epithelial transport of ions and water, while its macromolecules originate mainly from blood leakage or products of local secretory cells.
Cough due to bronchitis is characterized by a mild dry cough in the early stages, which later turns into a wet cough that may cough up yellow pus sputum. Early cold symptoms, such as fever, sneezing.
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1, phlegm is the human respiratory secretion, it is through the movement of bronchial cilia movement epithelial cilia, from the lungs to the upper respiratory tract to promote, and finally, through the normal cough reflex of the person from the trachea coughing discharged from the body, the normal person phlegm is very little, just to keep the respiratory tract moist and secretion of a small amount of mucus. But when a person inhales irritating gases, dust, pathogenic bacteria, viruses and other harmful microorganisms, the upper respiratory tract may be inflamed, or lung disease, the respiratory tract will increase secretion, the amount of sputum will increase, and the nature of the sputum will change, can be changed from mucous sputum into yellow pus sputum.
For example, in bronchiectasis, tuberculosis cavity formation, purulent inflammation of the lungs, the amount of yellow pus sputum will increase, and it can contain a large number of pathogenic bacteria.
2, identify the mouth and phlegm, the patient consciously breath hot or both dry, dry mouth, yellow phlegm for wind-heat; conscious mouth is not hot or dry or cool, phlegm white thin for wind-cold. Pear and orange peel are suitable for people with dry cough. If the cough is so dry that there is no phlegm at all, you can add some lily of the valley and silver fungus. If there is yellow phlegm, add some lotus root, because lotus root is cool, down the fire blood, can moisturize the lungs to remove hot phlegm, relieve summer heat.
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