Dry weather and lower temperatures have caused many people to accidentally catch a cold, causing them to cough. However, due to their busy life and study, many people just buy medicine and their coughs still don’t get better. Coughs can be treated with some foods in daily life, which can reduce phlegm and relieve coughs. So what are the best foods to reduce phlegm and relieve coughs?

1. Dietary therapy for reducing phlegm and relieving cough

1. Braised yam with candied dates - treating chronic cough due to lung deficiency

Ingredients: 1000 grams of yam, 10 candied dates, 100 grams of diced suet, 350 grams of sugar, and osmanthus juice. Wet starch. A little cooked lard.

Method:

1. Wash the yam, put it into a pot, add water to submerge the yam, cook over high heat, pick up the yam when it is rotten, peel it, Use a knife to cut into 6 cm lengths. 3cm wide rectangle. Slap flat. Peel candied dates in half and set aside for later use.

2. Coat the large soup bowl with cooked lard, arrange candied dates on the bottom of the bowl, then a layer of yam, sandwich a layer of sugar and diced suet, place them layer by layer to the mouth of the bowl, and sprinkle with sugar. , fasten the lid on the plate, steam in the basket for about 1 hour, then remove it, turn it over and put it on the plate.

3. Heat the wok, strain the soup into the plate, put 100 grams of water, 150 grams of sugar and a little osmanthus juice to boil, cover with water starch, pour the pot over the yam and serve.

Efficacy: Nourishing the kidneys and lungs. It can be used to treat chronic cough due to lung deficiency, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, mental fatigue and body fatigue, weakness of limbs, long-term food tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the body.

2. Bird's nest and white fungus - cure dry cough and night sweats

Ingredients: 10 grams of bird's nest, 15 grams of white fungus, appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Method: First test the bird's nest with clean water, then soak it in hot water for 3-4 hours, then remove the fluff, and then soak it in hot water for 1 hour. Use a porcelain pot or a covered bowl to put the bird's nest, white fungus, and rock sugar into it, and simmer over water until cooked. Take.

Efficacy: Tonify deficiency and damage, nourish lung yin, and reduce deficiency heat. Treat dry cough, night sweats or lung yin deficiency.

3. Sesame rock sugar water - treating night cough

Ingredients: 15 grams of raw sesame seeds, 10 grams of rock sugar.

Method: Put sesame seeds and rock sugar in a bowl and drink with boiling water.

Effects: Moisten the lungs and promote body fluids. Cure persistent cough at night, cough without phlegm.

Note: 1 handful of sesame seeds, 50 grams of ginger, mashed into pieces and boiled in juice can also have the above effects.

4. Stir-fried lamb liver with sesame oil - cure chronic cough

Ingredients: 60 grams of lamb liver, 30 grams of sesame oil, a little salt.

Method: Slice the lamb liver, put sesame oil in the pot until it is 80% hot, add the lamb liver and salt and stir-fry.

Efficacy: Moisten the lungs and relieve cough. Cure persistent cough.

5. Steamed white pear and honey - cure chronic cough and dry throat

Ingredients: 1 large white pear, 50 grams of honey.

Method: First dig out the core of the white pear, fill it with honey, and heat and steam it until cooked. Eat one pill each morning and evening for several days.

Efficacy: Promotes fluid and moisturizes dryness, relieves cough and reduces phlegm. Treat chronic cough and dry throat caused by yin deficiency and dryness of the lungs, heat in the hands, feet, and heart, etc.

6. Polygonatum rock sugar - Polygonatum odorifera for relieving cough and asthma

Ingredients: (Chinese herbal medicine) 30 grams, 50 grams of rock sugar.

Method: Wash Polygonatum sibiricum, foam with cold water, place in a casserole, then add rock sugar and appropriate amount of water. Place the pot on the stove, simmer over a strong fire, and then simmer over a slow fire until the Polygonatum odorifera is thoroughly cooked. Take Huangjing and drink soup 2 times a day.

Efficacy: clearing the lungs, regulating the spleen, and replenishing the essence. Used to treat cough caused by dryness and lung deficiency.

7. Dioscorea porridge—strengthening the spleen and lungs

Ingredients: 100-150 grams each of raw dioscorea and wheat flour, or ground dried yam, appropriate amount of green onion and ginger, white sugar a little.

Method: Grind the yam through a fine sieve, add cold water, stir while cooking, boil for two or three times, then add a little sugar to taste. Take.

Efficacy: Tonify the spleen and stop diarrhea, tonify the kidneys and absorb food. It can be used to treat cough and asthma due to overwork, spleen deficiency and diarrhea, and all diseases caused by weakness and weakness.

Eight - Treat itchy throat and cough

Ingredients: 50 grams of lean pork, 10 grams of almonds, and 15 grams of Adenophora ginseng.

Method: *** Decoction and drink. Take 2 times a day.

Efficacy: clearing the lungs, resolving phlegm, and promoting fluid production. Cure cough with less phlegm, thirst, dry throat, itchy throat, etc.

9. Peanut Adenophora Decoction - Treats cough and reduces phlegm

Ingredients: 25 grams each of peanuts, ginkgo, lily, and North Adenophora, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Method: Decoct in water to extract juice, add rock sugar. 1 dose daily.

Efficacy: Moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm. Treat long-term cough with less phlegm, shortness of breath and dry throat.

10. Peanut, jujube and honey soup - relieving cough and reducing phlegm

Ingredients: 30 grams each of peanuts, jujubes and honey.

Method: Fry in water until very soft. Drink the soup, 2 times a day.

Efficacy: relieve cough and resolve phlegm. Used to treat cough, phlegm and body weight loss, bowel borborygmus, chest and costal fullness, dizziness and shortness of breath.

2. It is not advisable to eat when coughing

(1) Avoid cold foods, and it is not advisable to eat cold or frozen drinks when coughing. If you eat something too cold when coughing, it will easily cause lung qi to be blocked, and the symptoms will worsen and not heal over time.

(2) Avoid fatty, sweet and thick-flavored foods. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coughs are mostly caused by lung heat, especially in children. In the daily diet, eating more fatty, sweet and flavorful foods can produce internal heat, aggravate coughing, and make the phlegm thick and sticky, making it difficult to cough up.

(3) Avoid eating fishy shrimps and crabs. Most people know that when coughing, you need to avoid "eating things". It is not advisable to eat fishy foods, which have the greatest impact on "wind-heat coughs".

(4) Avoid sweet and sour foods. Sour foods tend to agglomerate phlegm, making it difficult to cough up the phlegm, aggravating the condition and making it difficult to heal the cough.

(5) Avoid eating oranges, as orange flesh produces heat and phlegm.

(6) Avoid eating peanuts, melon seeds, chocolate, etc. The above foods contain a lot of fat and can easily breed phlegm after eating and aggravate coughs.

(7) Avoid taking supplements. Many parents take some supplements to their weak children, but if the child's cough is not cured, they should stop taking the supplements to avoid making the cough difficult to cure.

3. How to prevent coughs

(1) Prevent coughs and colds first

It is very important to prevent coughs and colds, so children should pay attention to exercise and improve their health. The ability to resist "evil" and avoid external infections to prevent aggravation of the condition. It is necessary to strengthen the daily conditioning of children. The living environment should be quiet, windows should be opened regularly to keep the indoor air fresh, and the room should be prevented from being filled with oil fumes and the smell of smoke, which may cause or aggravate coughs. Try not to take your children to public places and have less contact with cough patients.

(2) Drink more water to benefit the lungs

The dry climate in autumn causes the human body to lose a lot of water. To make up for these losses in time, drink at least 500 ml more water every day than in other seasons to maintain normal moisture in the lungs and respiratory tract. Water can also be "ingested" directly into the respiratory tract by pouring hot water into a cup, pointing your nose at the mouth of the cup and inhaling for 10 minutes each time, 2 to 3 times a day.

(3) Eat lung-moistening foods

Qiu pears are on the market. Eat 1-2 pear every day, which can nourish the lungs and moisturize dryness, moisturize the intestines and prevent coughs. In addition, kumquats have a very good antitussive effect. You can eat 5-6 pills 3 times a day, each time, which can also have a preventive effect. Tremella fungus, candied dates, lilies, loquats, etc. all have lung-moistening effects. Making soup with these ingredients is a good lung-moistening dietary therapy.

(4) Drink warm drinks

Warm drinks can thin the phlegm, relieve the tension of the respiratory mucosa, and promote the coughing up of phlegm. Warm water, Warm milk, rice soup, etc. are all good choices. You can also drink some fresh juice. Apple juice and pear juice should be less irritating. Citrus juices such as orange juice and grapefruit juice should not be consumed.

(5) Water vapor to relieve coughs

Children who keep coughing will have symptoms relieved when the room temperature is about 20 degrees and the humidity is about 60%-65%. If your child has a severe cough, you can hold your child and sit in a steamy bathroom for 5 minutes. The moist air can help your child clear mucus from their lungs and calm their cough.

(6) Add or remove clothes and quilts

Mothers should add or remove clothes for their children according to the temperature of the day; when children sweat a lot while playing, they should wipe the sweat in time and change into dry clothes; When the temperature is low at night, cover the child with a quilt to prevent the child from catching a cold and coughing.

(7) Ensure adequate sleep

During sleep, the muscles of the whole body relax, the response to external stimuli is reduced, and activities such as heartbeat, breathing, and excretion are reduced, which is conducive to the recovery of various organ functions and Recovery from illness. Mothers should try to let their children rest in bed more often to ensure that they get enough sleep to facilitate the body's recovery.