How to treat pneumonia in children with traditional Chinese medicine

Pediatric pneumonia is a common respiratory disease in pediatrics. If it cannot be completely cured, it will affect the baby's healthy development. Traditional Chinese medicine has a significant effect on the treatment of pediatric pneumonia. Here we will introduce traditional Chinese medicine treatment for pediatric pneumonia, hoping to be of help to everyone.

The clinical manifestations of pneumonia in children are fever, cough, and dyspnea, and some children do not have fever but have severe cough and wheezing. The main cause of the disease is that children like to eat sweet, salty, fried and other foods, which leads to food stagnation and internal heat, phlegm and heat accumulation, and occasional cold wind makes the lung qi stagnate, which is a cause and effect of each other and causes pneumonia.

TCM syndrome differentiation can be divided into the following types of treatment:

1. Heat inside and cold outside

Symptoms include nasal congestion, runny nose, aversion to cold without sweating, severe cough and asthma, white fur, and floating pulse. This is because the lung qi is blocked and cannot be promoted and descended. The treatment should be to clear away heat and cold, promote lung function and calm asthma. Use Ma Xing Gan Shi Tang with added ingredients: 3g of ephedra, 6g of apricot kernel, 9g of raw gypsum, 3g of licorice, 9g of raw mulberry bark, 9g of roasted loquat leaf, and 3g of peucedanum, decocted in water. If asthma is urgent, add 6g of earthworm and 6g of scutellaria baicalensis.

2. Warm pathogens attack the lungs

Symptoms include high fever and coma, dry nose without mucus, frequent cough with little sputum, thin yellow fur, and rapid pulse. Treatment should be to clear away heat and detoxify, promote lung function and relieve cough. Yinqiao powder with added ingredients: 12g of honeysuckle, 18g of dandelion, 12g of isatis indigo leaf, 9g of reed root, 9g of bamboo leaf, 9g of burdock seed, 6g of almond, 9g of houttuynia, 3g of licorice, and 0.5g of antelope powder (taken with water). If the cough is severe, add 6g of platycodon and 9g of roasted loquat leaf; if the thirst is severe, add 9g of pollen and 9g of Yuanshen.

3. Dryness harms the lungs

Symptoms include dry lips, tongue, and nose, dry cough with little sputum, sticky sputum that is difficult to cough up, dry and sore throat, thirst, red tongue, and rapid pulse. Treatment should be to nourish yin, clear dryness, moisten the lungs, and stop coughing. Add or subtract Sangxing Decoction: 6g of Adenophora, 6g of Apricot, 6g of Fritillaria, 6g of Platycodon, 9g of Dendrobium, 3g of Licorice, 9g of Sterculia, 6g of Pollen, and pear peel as an introduction. If the dryness is severe, add 9g of Qingguo and 9g of Radix Ophiopogonis.

4. Damp-heat in the lungs

Symptoms include chest fullness and phlegm obstruction, flaring of the nostrils, heavy and turbid phlegm in the throat, thick and greasy tongue coating, and slippery and rapid pulse. Treatment should be to clear the lungs and relieve depression, remove phlegm and remove turbidity. Qianjin Weijing Decoction combined with Beimu Gualou Powder is modified: 9 grams of reed root, 9 grams of wax gourd seeds, 9 grams of raw coix seeds, 9 grams of raw mulberry bark, 6 grams of Gualou, 6 grams of apricot kernel, 9 grams of Zhejiang Fritillary, 9 grams of Radish Seed, and 3 grams of Tianzhuhuang. For those who are uncomfortable with spitting out phlegm, add 3 grams of Pinellia and 6 grams of Bamboo Shavings.

In addition to paying attention to weather changes and adding or removing clothes at any time, do not smoke in the child's bedroom, do not place or avoid contact with harmful objects such as fumes, paint, gas, dichlorvos, and bird cages, etc. During the illness, eat less sweet, salty, spicy, greasy and other heavy foods. The indoor temperature should not be too high or too dry; open doors and windows frequently to keep the air fresh.

After treatment, take 6 grams of Adenophora Root, 6 grams of Raw Atractylodes Macrocephala, 6 grams of Tangerine Peel, 12 grams of Fried Barley Buds, 9 grams of Ophiopogon Japonicus, 9 grams of Whole Dendrobium, 6 grams of Citrus Aurantium, 9 grams of Raw Astragalus, 3 grams of Saposhnikovia Divaricata and other Qi-invigorating, spleen-strengthening and lung-moisturizing drugs to follow up and prevent recurrence.