What are the differences between the cold and heat syndromes of bronchopneumonia?

Syndrome, in traditional Chinese medicine, is the short form of symptoms and disease patterns, so TCM diagnosis is carried out through the four diagnostic methods of observation, auscultation and olfaction, inquiry, and pulse feeling and palpation combined into one. The cold and heat in the symptoms and the cold and heat obtained from pulse feeling are sometimes not fully consistent, and comprehensive identification is still needed. Under normal circumstances, the conclusions obtained from the four diagnostic methods are consistent. For example, wind-cold closing the lung will manifest as cough and fever, clear thin white phlegm, no sweating and aversion to cold, rapid breathing with phlegm rales, thirst without desire to drink, and there will be a thin white or white greasy tongue coating, a tongue body that is not red, and a floating, rapid, and tight pulse.

Bronchopneumonia apricot kernel

The lung governs the skin and hair, so regardless of cold or heat, pathogens easily enter from the skin and hair and invade the lung. When wind-cold binds the lung, the dispersing and descending functions are easily disturbed, and qi rebels upward, causing cough and rapid breathing. If defensive qi fails to diffuse properly, it is easy for external pathogens to join with it, and when healthy qi is weak in fighting against external pathogens, there will be aversion to cold, no sweating, thirst without desire to drink, and so on. Because the pathogen is at the exterior of the lung, defensive qi, skin, and hair, and healthy qi and pathogen struggle against each other, the pulse manifestation is floating, tight, and rapid, and so on.

When there is prolonged illness with deficiency of healthy qi, and in infants and young children with congenital weakness, they are not only easily disturbed by external pathogenic qi, but also prone to having the pathogen remain for a long time, causing the illness to drag on and become prolonged, and it is easy for it to invade the interior of the viscera and quickly transform into pneumonia, bronchitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, and other internal injury diseases. Therefore, the symptoms that appear are no longer merely exterior signs, but pale and lusterless complexion, easy sweating, or night sweats, and so on.

Bronchopneumonia inflammation

For acute bronchopneumonia, the greatest precaution should be taken against infants, young children, and other children rapidly developing bronchopneumonia after a cold. If a child has a cold without high fever, it may indicate congenital deficiency of healthy qi, mostly dual deficiency of qi and yin, with weak self-resistance, and external pathogens will easily "push their luck" and rapidly advance the disease, infecting and invading the lower respiratory tract. Ordinarily, children being prone to fatigue is also a manifestation of weak healthy qi and insufficiency of kidney essence and spleen qi. A TCM physician should be consulted for treatment in advance to support and reinforce healthy qi.

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