In our daily life, colds and coughs are the most common things in children. However, once a child develops a cold and cough, it is not so easy to get rid of the cold and cough. Here is what I will tell you This article introduces some dietary methods to treat cough. I hope it will be helpful to people with cough. So what dietary treatments can treat coughs? How to cure a cough quickly?
1. Diet therapy to treat cough
1. Walnut duck (special treatment: cough) Ingredients: 200g walnut kernels, 150g water chestnuts, 1 old duck, 100g chicken puree Gram, egg white (1). Instructions for preparation and consumption: Slaughter the duck, remove its internal organs, wash it, soak it in boiling water and put it in a basin. Add onions, ginger and a little MSG, steam in a basket, take out and let cool, remove bones and cut into pieces. Grind the walnut kernels and water chestnuts into fine pieces, mix with the chicken puree, egg white, and a little wet powder to form a paste. Pour the paste on the duck body, fry in oil until crispy, remove and control the oil and serve. Serve with food. Efficacy and Indications: Walnut kernels are sweet in taste and warm in nature. They can nourish the kidneys and yang, nourish the lungs, moisturize the intestines and relieve constipation. They are rich in fatty oils, a large amount of protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, vitamins B1, B2, sugars and other ingredients. . Water chestnuts are sweet in taste and cold in nature. They can clear away heat, promote fluid production, resolve phlegm and eliminate accumulation. Duck meat is sweet in taste and slightly cool in nature. It can nourish yin and blood and clear away heat. "Yilin Zhuanyao" says: it can remove labor fever, so it can cure cough. Contains protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins B1, B2, B5, etc. This meal can nourish the kidneys, warm the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Treatment of chronic cough due to kidney deficiency in infants, with symptoms of thin sputum, restless breath, frailty and sickness, and worsening cough and asthma in autumn and winter. Used for chronic tracheitis and bronchial asthma (remission period). Note: This meal is good at tonic and is suitable for deficient cough. It should not be used if the baby is suffering from external infection or coughing with thick phlegm, or is in the fever period.
2. Jianhua Pig Lung Decoction (special treatment: cough) Ingredients: 25-30 grams of Jianhua and 1 pig lung. Instructions for making and serving: Wash the pig lungs, squeeze out the foam, cut into pieces, heat the pan with oil, add ginger and stir-fry before putting it into a casserole. Add apricots and mulberry bark, and cook together to make a soup. Season and drink the soup. Pork lungs can be used as accompaniments. Soak the sword flowers in water until soft, remove the sediment, and cook them together with the pig lungs for 1 to 2 hours. Season and drink the soup, and the rest can be eaten with food. Efficacy and Indications: Sword Flower, also known as Overlord Flower, has a sweet and slightly cold nature and flavor. It has the effects of clearing heat, moistening the lungs, and relieving cough. It is commonly used to treat tuberculosis, bronchitis, cervical lymphatic tuberculosis, and mumps. Combined with pig lung, it can clear away heat and moisturize the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Used to treat cough due to dryness of the lungs and bad breath in autumn and winter. Note: This recipe is a commonly used folk recipe. It is mainly suitable for those with dryness of the lungs and phlegm-fire. It is not suitable for infants who cough up thin phlegm and have loose stools.
3. Lily honey (specifically used to treat cough) Ingredients: 60 grams of lily and 30 grams of honey. Instructions for preparation and consumption: Wash and dry the lilies, mix well with honey, put in a pot and steam until cooked. This honey lily can be used as a snack for babies to eat. Indications: Lily is sweet, slightly bitter, and slightly cold in nature. It has the functions of moistening the lungs, relieving cough, clearing the heart and calming the nerves. Contains starch, protein, fat, various alkaloids, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other ingredients. Pharmacological tests show that its decoction has an antitussive effect on children's cough caused by ammonia, and can combat toad spider asthma caused by histamine. Use it with honey to enhance its effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough. It is more suitable for treating chronic bronchitis, dry throat cough in infants, especially dry cough after autumn, and constipation. Note: It is not suitable for babies with spleen deficiency and loose stools. This method is convenient to take and is suitable for use in autumn and winter.
4. Lily Coltsfoot Flower Drink (Specialized for Cough) Ingredients: 30 to 60 grams of lily, 10 to 15 grams of coltsfoot flower, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Preparation and serving method: Place the ingredients together in a casserole and boil into sugar water. Drink water and eat lily, preferably after dinner and before going to bed. Indications: Lily moistens the lungs and relieves cough. Butterbur flower is pungent and warm, has the effect of moistening the lungs and lowering qi, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. The extract of this product can slightly dilate the bronchi and has an antispasmodic effect on spasms caused by histamine. Therefore, it has the effects of relieving cough, eliminating phlegm and relieving asthma. The combination of the two medicines has the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving coughs, lowering qi and resolving phlegm. Treat infants' chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma (remission period), autumn and winter cough, dry and sore throat, and persistent cough. Note: This drink is suitable for people with coughs in autumn and winter, with a little phlegm. It is not as effective as the medicine for bronchial asthma or spastic bronchitis, but it can be used as an auxiliary treatment.
5. Water chestnut and lily soup (special treatment: cough) Ingredients: 30 grams of water chestnuts (water chestnuts), 1 gram of lily, 1 snow pear, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Instructions for preparation and consumption: Wash, peel and mash the water chestnuts, wash the pears, chop the skins and remove the cores, wash the lilies, mix the three and add water to boil, then add an appropriate amount of rock sugar and cook until the soup is cooked and thickened.
6. Nanxing, Mulberry and White Pig Lung Decoction (special treatment: cough) Ingredients: 15 to 20 grams of Nanxing, 15 grams of mulberry bark, and 1 pig lung (about 250 grams). Instructions for preparing and serving: Wash the pig lungs, squeeze out the foam, cut into pieces, heat the pan with oil, add ginger and stir-fry for later use in a casserole. Add apricots and mulberry bark, and cook together to make a soup. Season and drink the soup. Pork lungs can be used as accompaniments. Efficacy and Indications: Pig lung is sweet in taste and neutral in nature, and has the effect of nourishing the lungs and moisturizing dryness. South apricot is sweet in taste and neutral in nature. It is a commonly used medicine for relieving lungs and moistening dryness, relieving cough and asthma. Morus alba bark has a sweet and cold nature and flavor, which can purge the lungs and relieve asthma. Pharmacological research shows that the large amount of sodium chloride it excretes has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus and influenza virus. This soup moistens the lungs and relieves cough. Treat dry cough caused by lung dryness, dry mouth and nose, little or no phlegm. Note: This meal is a commonly used folk recipe and is generally taken after autumn.
Not only can it be cured, but it also has the effect of preventing dryness of the lung. It can also be eaten by healthy infants
7. Adenophora and Polygonatum odoratum lotus seed and lily soup (special treatment: cough) Ingredients: 50 grams of Adenophora and Polygonatum odorifera. , 25 grams each of lotus seeds and lily, and 1 egg. Instructions for making and taking the medicine: Wash the Adenophora japonicus, Polygonatum odoratum, lotus seeds, and lilies, put them into the pot with the eggs and their shells, simmer for half an hour, take out the eggs and remove the shells, and stew them together until the medicine is soft and rotten. If you eat eggs and drink soup, you can add sugar to taste. Efficacy and Indications: The Chinese medicines used in this soup are all products that moisten the lungs and nourish yin, strengthen the spleen and stomach, especially eggs, which not only have high dietary value, but also can nourish yin and relieve troubles, benefit blood and calm the mind, and can treat lung and stomach yin damage and aphonia. It is a symptom of sore throat, so this meal can nourish yin, clear away heat, moisten the lungs and relieve cough. It is used to treat chronic cough due to Qi deficiency, dry cough due to dryness of the lungs, low cough sound, less phlegm, weak body, less food, dry mouth and thirst. Note: It should not be used by those with spleen deficiency and excessive dampness or excessive heat and phlegm, as well as those with body heat and bad breath.
8. Ingredients for radish honey drink (to treat cough): 5 slices of white radish, 3 slices of ginger, 3 jujubes, and 30 grams of honey. Preparation and consumption: add radish, ginger, and jujube to an appropriate amount of water and boil for about 30 minutes, remove the residue, add honey, and boil again. Take it warm. 1 to 2 times a day. Efficacy and Indications: Radish is pungent, sweet, and cool in nature. It has the functions of clearing heat and promoting fluid production, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Its alcohol extract has strong antibacterial effect against Gram-positive bacteria. Ginger is a commonly used medicine to dispel wind and cold, relieve vomiting and reduce qi. Jujube is mostly used to harmonize the stomach, nourish blood and coordinate medicines. Honey moistens dryness and relieves cough. This drink can relieve cold and relieve cough. To treat colds and coughs, it is appropriate to treat colds and coughs. Note: Infants who are weak and prone to colds and coughs that cannot be cured after long-term treatment or are repeatedly delayed can be tried. However, it should not be used for those with wind-heat cough and yellow phlegm.
2. How to cure a cough quickly
1. Stew pears with rock sugar to resolve phlegm and relieve cough
Peel the fresh pears, cut them open and remove the core, and add Add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, put it in a pot over water and steam until soft before serving.
2. Tofu candy relieves cough, resolves phlegm and relieves asthma
500 grams of tofu, 100 grams each of brown sugar and white sugar. Dig a nest in the tofu, add brown and white sugar, put it into a bowl and cook for 30 minutes. Eat it in one sitting and take it 4 times. It can clear away heat, promote body fluids, moisturize dryness, and treat cough and phlegm.
3. Corn silk and orange peel to treat cough
Appropriate amounts of corn silk and orange peel. ***Add water and decoct, take 2 times a day; it can relieve cough and reduce phlegm, and treat wind-cold cough and excessive phlegm.
4. Radish and pig lung cough soup
1 radish, 1 pig lung, and 15 grams of almonds. Add water and cook for 1 hour, eat the meat and drink the soup; it can clear away heat and resolve phlegm, relieve cough and asthma, and cure persistent cough, excessive phlegm and shortness of breath.
Peanut Adenophora Decoction treats cough with less phlegm
5. Peanut Adenophora Decoction cures cough with less phlegm
Peanuts, ginkgo, lily, and North Adenophora 25 grams, appropriate amount of rock sugar. Decoct the juice in water, add rock sugar, take 1 dose per day; it can moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm, treat chronic cough with less phlegm, shortness of breath and dry throat.
6. Polygonatum and rock sugar can relieve cough and asthma
30 grams of Polygonatum (Chinese herbal medicine) and 50 grams of rock sugar. Wash the Polygonatum sibiricum, foam it with cold water, put it in a casserole, add rock sugar, add an appropriate amount of water, put the pot on the stove, boil over a strong fire, and then simmer over a slow fire until the Polygonatum odorifera is thoroughly cooked, twice a day.
Eating Huang Jing and drinking the soup can clear the lungs, regulate the spleen, and replenish the essence. It is used to treat coughs caused by dryness and lung deficiency, dry cough without phlegm, difficulty in spitting up, dry mouth after eating less, kidney deficiency, and essence deficiency.