On the psychosomatic level, coughing means “I cough something for you.” This is derived from TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), where the lung is assigned to the element metal and the metal represents the resistance. This means that when a person coughs, he is in a process of resistance to new thoughts, feelings, external requirements or new structures in life in general and he would like to hold on to the “old”.

Another attempt is the statement: “Man wants to be heard on another level”.

From the point of view of spiritual medicine, kidney energy is responsible for the lung and thus for breathing. The kidneys, in turn, are responsible for the human spirit.
This means that people lack the energy in their spirit. The kidneys also carry the emotion of security and insecurity, especially in sexual terms, and so coughing has a lot to do with fear.