百日咳是一种传染性很强的小儿急性呼吸道传染病。目前由于大力推广菌苗接种,此病已较少见。但它对婴幼儿仍是有生命威胁的传染病,故必须予以重视。祖国医学对本病有着丰富的治疗经验。现将近二十年来的部分文献资料加以综述,仅供参考。祖国医学对百日咳病因病理的认识祖国医学文献中对百日咳早有记载,有顿咳、痰咳、鹭鸶咳或鸡咳之称。认为本病的发生,多由于小儿脏腑不坚,气血未充,抗病力弱,病邪入侵,肺失清肃,痰浊阻于气道,肺气失于畅达,遂致咳嗽频频。如病邪蕴积,机 Pertussis is a very contagious pediatric acute respiratory infection. At present, due to vigorous promotion of bacterin vaccination, the disease has been rare. But it is still a life-threatening infectious disease for infants and young children, so it must be taken seriously. The motherland medicine has rich experience in the treatment of this disease. Some of the literature and literature in the past two decades have been reviewed for reference only. The understanding of pathogenesis of whooping cough in the motherland’s medicine is well known in the Chinese medical literature for whooping cough, and it is said to have cough, cough, scorpion cough or chicken cough. The occurrence of this disease is considered to be due to incompetence of viscera in children, lack of sufficient blood and blood, resistance to disease, incursion of evils, loss of clear lungs, obstruction of airway due to turbidity, loss of smooth lungs, and frequent coughing. If the evil is accumulated, the machine