For cough and expectoration caused by respiratory inflammatory reaction, drugs and foods that moisten the lungs, relieve cough and eliminate phlegm can be taken. Generally, you can choose fruits and vegetables with bright colors and rich water content, such as grapes, watermelons, cantaloupes, calla lilies, pitaya, pears, oranges and passion fruits. Vegetables can also choose Chinese cabbage, Chinese kale, broccoli, day lily, carrot, white radish and so on. Chinese patent medicine preparations such as Yangyin Qingfei Pill, Qingfei Huatan Zhike Granule, Juhong Huatan Zhike Liquid, Shedan Chuanbei Liquid, Shedan Chenpi Powder, honey-roasted Chuanbei Pipa Cream and Qiuli Cream can be taken appropriately.
Clearing heat and resolving phlegm should properly moisten the lungs, pay attention to daily maintenance, drink more soup and avoid spicy, eat some fruits and vegetables, and don't eat cold drinks. Clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, moistening lung and relieving cough with lily, clearing heart and calming nerves, cooked food or decoction can cure sore throat. Pear has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. "So, especially in summer, people with wind-heat cough and lung-heat cough have yellow and thick sputum. In addition, winter melon seeds are sweet and cool, which can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and clear heat. They are also commonly used in Chinese medicine to treat phlegm-heat cough. People who cough and spit yellow pus and phlegm due to bronchiectasis should eat more foods and fruits such as pineapple, duck eggs and honey that nourish yin and moisten the lungs. At the same time, it is necessary to reduce the consumption of some spicy and irritating foods at ordinary times to prevent yin injury and lung injury. Patients should also pay attention to reducing the frequency of smoking for their own health.
Raw pears moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm, while apples have high antidiarrheal nutrition. Cucumber is effective in reducing weight and inhibiting cancer kiwi fruit. Tomatoes enrich the blood and help the face, and lotus roots relieve anxiety and hangover. Oranges regulate qi and resolve phlegm, and leeks tonify kidney and warm knees and waist. Radish helps digestion except flatulence, celery can cure hypertension. Chinese cabbage diuretics excrete toxins, and cauliflower often causes cancer by eating less. Wax gourd has the function of diuresis and detumescence, and mung bean has a high detoxification effect. Black fungus engages in cancer to dissipate blood stasis, and yam benefits the kidney and eliminates edema. Kelp contains iodine to disperse blood stasis, and Lentinus edodes inhibits cancer cells. Pepper dispels cold and dehumidifies, and onion and ginger soup cures colds. Fish, shrimp, pig's trotters replenish milk, and pig's liver and sheep's liver improve eyesight. Eat walnuts to strengthen the kidney and waist, and eat red dates to invigorate the kidney and spleen.