It's already late autumn, lung season, and then it's cold in winter. Autumn and winter are the seasons with frequent coughs. Whether it is exogenous diseases or so-called acute and chronic bronchitis and bronchiectasis in modern medicine, people with cough as the main symptom have entered an eventful autumn. Starting today, I will talk about the classification and diet therapy of cough in chapters.

The definition of cough in traditional Chinese medicine is: cough refers to the sound of lung qi and vomiting, which is one of the common lung symptoms. However, coughing is not only caused by the lungs. In Suwen. On cough, it is said that "all the five internal organs make people cough, not just the lungs".

From the etiology and pathogenesis of traditional Chinese medicine, the causes of cough are exogenous and internal injuries.

The pathogenesis of exogenous cough is: the evil of six evils enters from the nose and mouth, or is received from the fur, and it is committed in the lungs, and the lungs are not declared, and the lungs are guilty of coughing. Generally, it is new onset, acute onset, short course of disease, often accompanied by lung exterior syndrome such as aversion to cold, fever, headache, body pain, runny nose, etc., which belongs to pathogenic excess. According to the different pathogenic factors and symptoms, it can be divided into exogenous wind-cold cough, exogenous wind-heat cough and exogenous wind-dry cough.

Cough due to internal injury is the dysfunction of zang-fu organs, and internal evils dry the lungs. For example, depression and anger hurt the liver, qi stagnation leads to fire, and qi fire invades the lungs, causing cough; For another example, smoking, drinking too much or overeating are all fat and spicy, which burns the lungs and stomach, or the spleen is not healthy, and phlegm is endogenous and sticks to the lungs, which makes the lung's main qi function disorder and the lung's qi rise and fall abnormally, causing cough.

Su Wen records: "When the five internal organs are in phase, they will get sick when they feel cold, and cough when they are mild", and "when the five internal organs cough for a long time, they will move to the six internal organs". This is the theoretical basis of clinical syndrome differentiation and treatment, and it is the doctor's subtle judgment that "the disease must be rooted", so we will not delve into it for the time being. Today, from the perspective of dietotherapy, let's discuss the dialectical treatment in order to prevent the delay.

The three types of exogenous cough: exogenous wind-cold, exogenous wind-heat and exogenous wind-dryness, have been introduced separately in the previous article, so I won't repeat them here. Today's internal injuries and coughs are introduced as follows.

First, internal injury and liver fire

How to judge the cough caused by internal injury and liver fire?

There are the following manifestations: red face and red ears when coughing, dry throat, phlegm stuck in the throat for a long time, not easy to cough up, small amount and sticky. Or phlegm and saliva coagulate like floc, chest and hypochondriac swelling and pain, thin yellow tongue coating, and rapid pulse. These manifestations are liver depression and cough, qi stagnation and excessive fire, and upper obstruction invading the lungs. Treatment should be "clearing lung, calming liver and reducing fire". If the symptoms are serious, you can find a doctor to prescribe medicine. People with mild symptoms can use diet therapy, which can be used as a supplement and auxiliary to prescription treatment and will receive better curative effect.

Recommended ingredients: loofah, honey, chrysanthemum almond, etc.

Recommended diet therapy:

1, loofah manna drink

Towel gourd flower 10-20g, washed, put into a teacup, brewed with boiling water, sealed for 10 minute, added with honey, and taken while it is hot, three times a day.

2, chrysanthemum green tea drink, this side comes from the "Medicinal Diet Recipe".

3 grams of chrysanthemum, 3 grams of Sophora japonica and 3 grams of green tea. Put it in a porcelain cup, soak it in boiling water, seal it for five minutes, and take it several times a day.

3. Apricot and chrysanthemum drinks

6 grams of almond, peeled tip, chrysanthemum 10 gram. After cleaning, put it in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, simmer for 65,438+00 to 65,438+05 minutes on medium fire, then decant the juice, add water and fry the juice again, combine the two juices, filter, add white sugar to boil and drink often.

In particular, there must be a reason to use it. Let's take a look at the effects of loofah and chrysanthemum used in the recipe.

Luffa: either its fresh and tender fruits are used as vegetables, or its frosted fruits are used as medicine, which is cold and sweet, and enters the lungs, liver, stomach and intestines. Has the effects of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxicating. Can be used for fever, polydipsia, cough, expectoration, bloody stranguria, carbuncle swelling, ulceration, galactorrhea, nameless swelling and pain, etc. Flowers and fruits are homologous and have the same function.

Modern pharmacological research shows that it mainly contains triterpenoid saponins, fatty acids, citrulline and other amino acids. In addition, a substance with antiallergic activity has been extracted, which can be used here to enter the liver meridian, clear liver fire and resist allergy.

Chrysanthemum is a common product for both medicine and food. Slightly cold, pungent and bitter, it has the effects of "dispersing wind and heat, clearing liver, improving eyesight and detoxifying". For fever, headache, cough, dizziness, blurred vision, sores and swelling, wind-heat cold toxicity.

Modern pharmacological research shows that chrysanthemum contains volatile oil, choline, amino acids, flavonoids, vitamins and so on. Has anti-inflammatory, blood pressure lowering, antipyretic, anti-infection and analgesic effects. If cough is a patient with coronary heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and neurosis at the same time, using the treatment prescription containing chrysanthemum can kill two birds with one stone.

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