ABSTRACT
Objective] To analyze the effect of powder for ascending and descending on patients with different cough. [Method] The treatment group patients had still cough with conventional western medicine for two weeks, and initial treatment group patients had not any treatment after cough. All these patients were treated with powder for ascending and descending according to different Chinese traditional medicine syndromes cough. [Results] There were 49 patients, and 17 cases were the initial diagnosed group and 32 patients were the after treatment group. Patients with the improvement of the symptoms of cough and throat were effective in 15 cases(88.2%), while in patients with the improvement for sputum symptoms in initial group were 16 cases(94.1%), and 27 case(84.4%) in treatment group. It had no statistically significant difference between the two groups(χ2=0.006, P=0.940). Cough concrete improvement between the two groups showed no significant difference(χ2 =0.006, P =0.465). Between the two groups cough, throat and sputum symptoms overall improvement rate was 87.8%(43/49), no significant difference between the two groups(P>0.05). [Conclusion] Regardless of the treatment patients or untreated patients, treatment with powder for ascending and descending had good effect in improvement of the symptoms of cough, and the improvement of throat and sputum was effective, too.