Foods for treating chest tightness and expectoration 1, oranges
Oranges are rich in vitamin C, calcium and phosphorus. Carotene, citric acid, hesperidin and other nutrients. Studies have shown that drinking three glasses of orange juice a day can reduce the cholesterol content in the body. In addition, eating oranges in moderation can relieve cough and protect the lungs.
2. Citrus fruit trees
Autumn and winter are the seasons for citrus harvest. After eating some oranges, people feel comfortable all over. In addition, it can also promote fluid production and relieve cough, moisten lung and eliminate phlegm, and induce diuresis. It is more suitable for people who are weak. If the citrus is fried into juice, it will have a good effect on treating cough caused by lung heat.
3. fig
Figs clear away heat, resolve phlegm and regulate qi, and are suitable for people with wind-heat cough and excessive phlegm in the chest. Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine also records the local folk methods for treating cough and hoarseness caused by lung heat. Ficus carica 15g is decocted in water to make rock candy clothes.
4. honey
Glucose and fructose in honey are most easily absorbed by human body, and also contain a variety of inorganic salts, organic acids and trace elements similar to human serum concentration. Sweet and flat in nature, it enters the spleen, lungs and intestines, and has the effects of nourishing, moistening dryness and detoxifying. It is often used to treat lung dryness and cough.
5, loofah
Luffa is good at clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, which is especially suitable for those who cough with excessive phlegm and thick yellow phlegm. This is because the plant mucus of Luffa contains a saponin, which has the function of eliminating phlegm. Where the cough caused by lung heat or wind heat often spits pus and phlegm, it is advisable to take loofah soup.
6.pierce
Pear has the effects of promoting fluid production, moistening lung, clearing away heat and toxic materials. Some adults and children like to use it to boil rock sugar water, because it also has the function of relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Whether it is eaten raw or boiled in sugar. Symptoms include cough due to lung heat and cough in the elderly, such as bronchitis. There are better auxiliary treatments. If you cook with some honey, the effect will be more obvious.
7. Little carrots
Known by the people? Winter radish and ginseng? Statement. Mustard oil, amylase and crude fiber in white radish have the functions of promoting digestion, stimulating appetite, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it tastes sweet and cool, enters the lung and stomach meridian, can eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, and treat lung flaccidity and hematemesis.
8. Lettuce; lettuce
Eating lettuce regularly in winter can enhance the secretion of gastric juice and digestive juice and promote the secretion of bile. The iodine content in lettuce is high, which will have a beneficial effect on the basic metabolism and physical development of human body. The nutrition of lettuce leaves is much higher than that of lettuce stems. Fluorine contained in lettuce diet can participate in the formation of enamel and dentin and the growth of bones. In addition, people who cough in winter can eat more lettuce leaves to relieve cough.
Dietotherapy for chest tightness, cough and excessive phlegm 1, stewed pig lung with apricot.
Practice: 3 grams of northern apricot, 3 grams of southern apricot, 3 grams of perilla leaf, 5 grams of poria cocos, dried tangerine peel 1 horn, pig lung 1 00g, and 50 grams of lean meat (1human body weight). Firstly, the pig lung was thoroughly doused with blanching water, and then it was put into a stew pot with the washed medicinal materials 1.5 ~ 2 hours for seasoning.
Efficacy: Beixing can relieve cough and asthma, and can be used with Nanxing to strengthen lung moistening function; Perilla leaves can dispel wind-cold, promote qi and stomach, which is more suitable for wind-cold cough; Poria cocos can promote diuresis, dry dampness, strengthen spleen and regulate stomach, and can be combined with dried tangerine peel to help strengthen spleen, dry dampness and resolve phlegm. Pig lung has the functions of tonifying lung, relieving cough and stopping bleeding. Health preservation in winter can be used as a health-care medicated diet.
2. Stewed Sydney with rock sugar and red dates
Practice: Sydney 1 kg Lycium barbarum, a number of red dates, 80g rock sugar and appropriate amount of water. Wash and peel Sydney, core and cut into pieces, wash and drain red dates, and cut a hole with scissors. Put Sydney, red dates, medlar and rock sugar into an electric pressure cooker until the water doesn't pass the ingredients. Boil 15 minutes.
Efficacy: Indications: Hot cough to quench thirst. Treat cough fever, apoplexy without language, typhoid fever, diarrhea with gallbladder heat, and convulsion. Facilitate defecation, remove thief wind, stop upset, stop asthma and stop fever. Moistening lung and cooling heart, resolving phlegm and diminishing inflammation, relieving sore poison and alcohol poison.
3. Almond cake
Practice: 40 almonds (peeled tips), 3 grams of indigo naturalis, persimmon 1 piece. Stir-fry almonds, grind them into mud, add indigo naturalis, mix well, spread them evenly in broken persimmons, wrap them in wet mud, fry them with slow fire, and take them twice in the morning and evening.
Efficacy: Clearing liver, moistening lung and relieving cough. Almond dispersing lung and relieving cough is the main medicine to treat cough; Indigo naturalis can clear liver, reduce fire and cool blood; Persimmon moistens the lungs, relieves cough and stops bleeding, and can also correct the bitter taste of indigo naturalis, so it is convenient to eat.
4, grapefruit walnut broth
Practice: 2 grams of winter melon skin, 5 grams of grapefruit core, peach meat 10 grams. Peel and wash wax gourd, add grapefruit kernel and peach flesh, boil in 10 bowl of clear water, remove residue and drink for several days.
Efficacy: wax gourd diuresis, detumescence and detoxification, clearing away heat and vexation, relieving cough and asthma, and quenching thirst. Grapefruit kernel has endocrine regulation function. Hetao warms the lungs and kidneys, benefiting life, and its meat nourishes vitality, moistens the lungs, moistens dryness and eliminates phlegm. The above foods are eaten with soup. Among them, grapefruit seeds have the effect of treating alopecia, alopecia and yellowing.
5, white radish honey
Practice: 1 large white radish, 30g honey, 5g white pepper and 2g ephedra. Wash radish, slice it, put it in a bowl, and pour in honey, white pepper, ephedra, etc. Steam for half an hour and take it while it is hot. Just lie in bed and see the sweat.
Efficacy: sweating and dispelling cold, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Treat cold cough.
6. Lily Ginseng Ear Soup
Practice: Take Lily 15g, Tremella 12g, Pseudostellaria heterophylla 15g, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. First, soak tremella in clear water, remove impurities and wash it. Put it into a casserole with washed lily and Radix Pseudostellariae, and add appropriate amount of water. Boil with strong fire first, then stew with slow fire until the silver is cooked, add rock sugar to taste, and take it twice a day 1 dose.