How to treat COPD

COPD is a chronic lung disease that can cause the patient’s respiratory function to gradually decline. Chronic bronchitis and emphysema, which were more commonly diagnosed in the past, mostly fall into this category. Once they become ill, COPD patients and their families face multiple blows to their physical health, mental state, and medical expenses. The disease not only affects the lungs, leading to a gradual decline in lung function, but also causes systemic adverse effects. Common comorbidities include cardiovascular disease, skeletal muscle dysfunction, metabolic syndrome, osteoporosis, depression and lung cancer. Therefore, the treatment of COPD is very important, so first of all, everyone should understand how to treat COPD effectively.

Most people choose Western medicine for the treatment of COPD, because Western medicine has quick effects. After the condition is clearly diagnosed, some medicines for treating COPD will be prescribed, which is the so-called "headache doctor". "Treat the foot if it hurts", and may completely ignore other diseases in the body or whether there is a recurrence. Of course, this is also an important reason for the delay in healing and repeated attacks of COPD.

Traditional Chinese medicine treats COPD according to the time, place and person. It not only prevents the disease before it is diagnosed and prevents the disease from changing, but it can also be based on the development of the patient's condition and the patient's own situation. And "tailor-made and changeable at any time" makes the treatment most suitable for the patient's condition at that time and achieves the best effect. We can see that in the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, the same COPD patients, if they have different physical types and different conditions, will use different medicines, different amounts, and different ways of taking them; even the same person will have different symptoms of COPD. The treatment options for the acute and remission stages of lung obstruction are also different. Traditional Chinese medicine is called "same disease, different treatments" and "syndrome differentiation and treatment" - this is the uniqueness of traditional Chinese medicine treatment and the advantage of treating COPD.