Patient's question:
Main symptoms: High feverOnset date: September 20
Laboratory test results: Bronchitis
Previous treatment and effectiveness: Medication for inflammation had minimal effect
Doctor's answer:
If you are diagnosed with bronchitis, there are two treatment methods: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western Medicine.TCM Treatment:
1. Decoctions
(1) Wind-Cold Cough Type: Heavy and urgent cough, thin white and clear phlegm, stuffy nose with a runny nose, chills without sweating, sore throat, fever or no fever, headache, thin white tongue, floating pulse.
Use apricot kernel, pinellia, schizonepeta each 6g, parthenolide, perilla leaf each 10g, ephedra 3g, and ginger 3 slices.
Boil in water and take twice daily, one decoction per day.
(2) Wind-Heat Cough Type: Uncomfortable cough with yellow, thick, sticky phlegm, thirst, sore throat, runny nose with turbid discharge, fever and headache, sweating, slightly yellow tongue, floating and rapid pulse.
Use mulberry leaf, chrysanthemum, forsythia, loquat leaf each 10g, apricot kernel, parthenolide, platycodon, baical root each 6g.
Boil in water, one decoction per day, taken twice.