What is the difference between white phlegm and yellow phlegm?

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In fact, white phlegm and yellow phlegm are essentially different from each other from the medical point of view. Generally speaking, cough white phlegm is due to environmental reasons. Dirty things gather near the throat, thus forming white phlegm. This situation is not very serious. It can be alleviated by wearing a mask at ordinary times. But yellow phlegm is not the same, cough yellow phlegm is generally a symbol of bacterial infection, if you have symptoms of cough yellow phlegm should be timely to the respiratory specialist hospital for diagnosis and treatment, find a special doctor to prescribe some drugs, and take them in time, can not be taken lightly, delay the best time for treatment.

What is the difference between white phlegm and yellow phlegm?

The hot phlegm is yellow and thick, hard and lumpy. It is due to the heat evil that the body fluid is burned and refined into phlegm. Because the heart governs fire and heat, both Zhang's Yitong zhuqie tanyin and outline of observing and observing the meridians, observing and observing the phlegm, think that the solid and lump is hot phlegm, which belongs to the heart meridians, and it is more common in the clinical practice of lung heat. In addition to yellow sputum, its red and black color may also be hot sputum《 The origin and development of miscellaneous diseases "Xizhu · tanyin origin and development" said: "in the heart, it is hot phlegm, its color is red, and the knot is as strong as glue."

Cold phlegm white and thin, or gray black spots, or its color is blue and white, because cold main stagnation, and injury Yang Qi, Qi does not change body fluid, water and moisture condensation for phlegm. Because the kidney belongs to cold water, both Zhang's Yitong and wangzaozunjing think that cold phlegm belongs to the kidney. In addition to spleen and kidney yang failure, cold phlegm is also commonly seen in wind and cold binding lung《 The origin and development of miscellaneous diseases the origin and development of tanyin by rhinoceros candle says: "in the kidney, it is called cold phlegm. Its color has black spots, and how thin it spits out."

Wind, phlegm, phlegm, blue, thin and foam, the disease in the liver meridian, because of liver wind and phlegm, blocking the air machine, disturbing the air, often accompanied by collateral and stuffy, irritability, dizziness, pulse string green, chest tightness, asthma and so on. If the wind evil attack lung, often with cold warm-up pain, throat itching cough, nasal congestion, runny nose, etc. In clinical practice, exogenous diseases injure the lung, not wind cold or wind heat, so wind phlegm is more common in the liver meridians. The origin of miscellaneous diseases Xizhu tanyin says: "in the liver, wind phlegm is called, its color is green, spitting out foam and bubbles, limbs are full of stuffy, irritable,... Wind phlegm is often paralyzed, head wind is dizzy, dark wind is stuffy, or convulsive."

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Old phlegm spits like catkins, color like coal, or sticky like glue, all are old phlegm《 The outline of expectoration and expectoration in observing the classics says: "old phlegm glue."“ If the shape is like balding, and the color is like coal enthalpy, you can see the appearance of old phlegm. "