Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Analysis of Dry Cough in the Aged People / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

The symptoms of dry cough in the aged people differs due to different cause, age, individual difference, and medication. Clinically, the disease mainly shows as asthenia type (qi deficiency of lung and kidney or deficiency of both qi and yin), or complication of sthenia and asthenia (invasion of external pathogens combined with internal pathogens), besides it affected by many factors (such as medicines, constipation, stroke, diabetes, and palpitation). Therefore, medicines should be used in lights dose and smartly to prevent accidents caused by induced factors.