Traditional Chinese Medicine -- Treatment of common cold (1)  

Cough is a protective body's breathing reflex action.Cough is the result when the foreign body, irritatinggases,such as respiratory secretions inside the recptors to stimulate the afferent nerve fibers medullary cough center,causing coughing.The action is deep cough, shortness of breathing, the glottis closed,breathing muscles,intercostal muscle and diaphragm contraction quick fierce,so that high-pressure gas jet out of the lungs, they become a cough. With the fast out of the airflow,respiratory secretions within the foreign body,or be excreted.