Difference between lung excess fire and lung deficiency fire

The main difference between lung-excess fire and deficiency-fire lies in symptoms and tongue coating pulse. The main symptoms of lung-excess fire are fever, even chills, cough, strong cough, yellow sputum, phlegm, easy coughing, chest distress, wheezing, coarse breathing sound, most of the onset is urgent, tongue coating is yellow and dry, tongue tip is red, pulse floating number is strong, this situation can be conditioned with drugs such as Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang. Lung deficiency fire is mainly caused by cough due to chronic illness, consumption of lung yin, or tuberculosis and other reasons. Cough is mainly dry cough, or phlegm is less and sticky and difficult to cough out. It is often accompanied by five-upset fever, hot flashes, night sweats, upset, insomnia, dreaminess, deafness, tinnitus and other manifestations. Tongue is red with little fur and pulse count. Baihe Gujin Decoction or Yangyin Qingfei Decoction can be used for conditioning.