运用培土生金法治疗小儿肺虚咳嗽

小儿稚阴稚阳之体，寒热变化快，常发生咳嗽，而临床上对其治疗多从补益后天之本的思路出发。针对小儿特殊的生理病理特点，根据五行相生相克的理论，用培土生金法治疗小儿肺虚咳嗽，即用补脾益气的方药补益小儿肺气，更能体现中医治疗疾病的整体观念及辨证思想。

Treating Infantile Cough due to Lung Deficiency by Supplementing Spleen to Nourish Lung

Infantile is a body of pure yin and pure yang, whose cold and hot changes are quick and can easily cause cough, so clinical treatment for this kind of syndrome is mostly to nourish spleen and stomach. To be more exact, treating infantile cough due to lung deficiency should be based on their physiological and pathologic features and theory of generation and restriction among five elements, which can better reflect TCM wholistic sense and therapy with syndrome differentiation.