呼吸系统疾病中最常见的疾病就是肺炎,老年肺炎指的是老年人由于受到各类原虫及病原微生物感染引起肺部的疾病。老年肺炎发病率较高,且死亡的风险较大。据报道,我国的肺炎患者数量每年达到248万例左右,其中老年肺炎患者所占比重高达将近70%,而每年因肺炎死亡的老年患者数量也高达6.5万左右。在中医学中,老年肺炎属风温肺热病范畴,是指因受风热病邪引发的以舌苔白或黄、咳痰、咳嗽以及发热为主要症状的急性 The most common disease in respiratory diseases is pneumonia. Senile pneumonia refers to the diseases of the lungs caused by the infection of various protozoa and pathogenic microorganisms in the elderly. The incidence of elderly pneumonia is higher, and the risk of death is greater. It is reported that the number of pneumonia patients in China reaches about 2.48 million cases each year, of which the proportion of elderly patients with pneumonia as high as nearly 70%, while the annual number of elderly patients died of pneumonia as high as 65,000 or so. In traditional Chinese medicine, senile pneumonia belongs to the category of pneumoconiosis, which refers to the acute symptoms of fever, fever, and whiteness induced by wind-heat disease