The main clinical manifestations are fever, cough, chest pain, dry and sore throat, thirst, polydipsia, cough, expectoration, yellow phlegm that is difficult to spit, red tongue, asthma, irritability, dry lips, Bitter mouth, severe patients may have symptoms such as disturbance of consciousness, gibbering, confusion, shortness of breath and fatigue, body heat and sweating, dripping cold sweat, pale face, cold limbs, etc. Scattered dry and wet sounds can be heard during lung auscultation. _ sound, or more phlegm sounds.

This disease occurs throughout the year, and is more common in winter and spring. It is more likely to occur in infants and young children. The onset is generally acute. If treated early and in a timely manner, the prognosis is good. This disease includes what is known in Western medicine as bronchopneumonia, interstitial pneumonia, lobar pneumonia, etc.

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Heat closing of the lungs is the basic pathogenesis of pneumonia and cough. "Heat, cough, phlegm, and wheezing" are the typical symptoms of pneumonia and cough. Pneumonia and asthma are similar to colds at first, and both are superficial symptoms. However, the superficial symptoms of pneumonia are short-lived and quickly turn into heat inside. The main characteristics are coughing and wheezing. At the beginning, one should distinguish between wind-heat and wind-cold. People with wind-cold tend to have aversion to cold, no sweating, and more thin phlegm. People with wind-heat have fever and cough up thick phlegm.

When phlegm blocks the lungs and closes the lungs, you should distinguish between those with severe heat and heavy phlegm. Those with severe heat will have high fever, red face and lips, and polydipsia leading to drinking; those with severe phlegm will have phlegm in the throat and a rolling sound of phlegm. High chest and shortness of breath. If the high fever is severe, the breath is severe, and the breathing is difficult, it is due to poison-heat syndrome; severe lung disease. If righteousness is deficient and evil is abundant, the heart yang will be weak and the heat will sink into the yin, which is a critical syndrome of rampant disease and evil and insufficient righteousness.

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