Folio Bound VIEWS - Chinese Medicine

priority is to resolve Phlegm and clear Heat rather than tonifying the Spleen. On the other hand,
in chronic breathlessness from deficiency of Lungs and Kidneys (the Root), the primary task is
to tonify Lungs and Kidneys and only secondarily relieve breathlessness and possibly resolve
Phlegm (the Manifestation).

The patterns analyzed will be:

EXCESS TYPE

Wind-Cold invading the Lungs

Wind-Cold on the Exterior, Phlegm-Fluids in the Interior

Cold on the Exterior, Heat in the Interior

Phlegm-Heat in the Lungs

Turbid Phlegm in the Lungs

Lung-Qi Obstructed

Liver-Fire invading the Lungs

DEFICIENCY TYPE

Lung-Qi Deficiency

Lung-Yin Deficiency

Lung and Kidney Deficiency

Lung- and Kidney-Yin Deficiency

Lung- and Kidney-Yang Deficiency

Lung-, Heart- and Kidney-Yang Deficiency

Excess Type

Wind-Cold Invading the Lungs

Clinical Manifestations

Aversion to cold, shivering, fever, cough, breathlessness, a feeling of oppression of the chest,
thin-white mucus, headache, no sweating.

Pulse: Floating-Tight.

External Wind-Cold invades the Lung's Defensive-Qi energetic layer and it impairs the
dispersing and descending of Lung-Qi: this causes the breathlessness and cough.

This situation corresponds either to an acute attack of breathlessness or an acute exacerbation of
chronic breathlessness. At this acute stage, the treatment must always be aimed at releasing the