Recently, many friends asked me, saying: since autumn, my family has always had a sore throat, itchy throat and started coughing, especially for the elderly and children. They cough in the morning, fall asleep and cough in the middle of the night, and their throats are itchy. Sometimes I always feel that I can't cough up phlegm, which is dry and painful. What should I do?
It is easy to cough in autumn, which is likely to be "dryness invading the lungs" in autumn. The lungs are arrogant and dirty, and dryness invading the lungs in autumn is easy to cause cough. This seasonal symptom has also been affirmed and valued by many doctors since ancient times.
For example, Yu Jiayan, a famous physician in the Qing Dynasty, once said that "autumn injury is caused by dryness", and Ye Tianshi, a febrile disease scientist in the Qing Dynasty, also said: "Dryness comes from the lungs first, which makes people cough. "So in autumn, many patients with cough suddenly increased in hospitals and clinics ...
There's a saying in Taoist doctors: warming up evil causes the lung to attack first. Therefore, once the six evils (wind, cold, summer, dampness, dryness and fire) invade the human body, the lungs will be the first to suffer.
According to the principles of Taoist doctor's "harmony between man and nature" and "philosophy of five elements", the five elements in autumn correspond to gold, and the five elements in human lungs also correspond to gold. Dryness and evil in autumn are easy to hurt the lungs, and the lungs are "jiao zang", which combines fur and controls breathing. When exogenous pathogens invade the human body, whether inhaled from the nose and mouth or invaded by the skin, they are easy to attack the lungs and cough.
In the alternate season of dry weather and dry things, there are more and more people coughing around. Many times, coughing is not good, which will affect work and life more or less. Share with you a few simple and easy ways to deal with autumn cough, which is worth collecting.
1, clear cold, heat, dry cough, good quickly and thoroughly
There are many prescriptions for relieving cough, but dialectics is the key to divide cough into cold, heat and dryness. Simply put, cold should dispel cold, that is, dry should nourish yin and hot should dissipate heat.
1, wind-cold cough
The temperature drops in the morning and evening in autumn. If people still blow the air conditioner violently, it will easily cause colds and colds, which will lead to cold cough. The physical manifestations of cold cough are: runny nose, cold hands and feet, slight fear of cold and wind, pale tongue coating, pale tongue, and no obvious sore throat.
It is the key to dispel the cold in time when coughing due to exogenous cold. I recommend a delicious and effective therapeutic prescription for all ages-baked orange. The outermost layer of orange skin is called orange in Taoist doctors, which is pungent, bitter and warm. Enter the lung and spleen meridians. It can dispel cold, dry dampness, benefit qi and eliminate phlegm. Used for cough due to wind-cold, itchy throat and excessive phlegm.
Recommended dietotherapy method: wash the oranges, and then bake them on the stove with chopsticks; In the process of baking, keep turning the oranges so that each side is heated evenly; When the oranges are all black, you can turn off the fire; When you warm the oranges, you can peel them and eat the orange meat inside.
2, dry cough
Autumn is a season full of "dryness", which is easy to damage body fluids. The typical symptoms of cough caused by dryness are: dry throat, dry expectoration, chapped mouth and lips, dry stool, and easy to get hot hands and feet.
In the early stage of this type of cough, you can eat more foods that moisten the lungs and remove dryness, which can nourish the lungs, such as mulberry leaves, Polygonatum odoratum, lilies, almonds and pears. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Pears, the living clear the heat of six fu organs, and the ripe ones nourish the yin of five internal organs. It is suggested that you can eat rock sugar stewed Sydney, which can quench thirst, relieve cough and phlegm, clear heat and reduce fire, moisten the lungs and dry.
Recommended dietotherapy method: cut the whole pear into pieces, add clear water and crystal sugar and cook it together. After boiling on high fire, cook it on low fire for 5 to 10 minutes. When eating, you can eat the soup and pear meat together.
3, wind-heat cough
It is hot and dry in autumn, and it is easy for everyone to cough because of getting angry or catching a cold due to wind and heat. Physical manifestations of heat cough: dry stool, fever in hands and feet, stuffy nose, yellow greasy tongue coating and yellow phlegm.
At this time, heat and lung fire should be properly removed. "Su Wen Zhi Zhen Da Lun" says: "Those who are hot are cold" recommends that everyone eat stewed pears with Chuanbei. Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae is cool in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the lung meridian and stomach meridian, and has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, resolving phlegm, relieving asthma, clearing heat and resolving phlegm. It is better to moisten dryness and clear heat when combined with pears.
Recommended dietotherapy method: use about 3g of Fritillaria cirrhosa powder, cut the upper end of a Pak Lei at the same time, remove the pear core, put the Fritillaria cirrhosa powder into it, then cover it, put the pear into a bowl, add some water into the bowl, and then put it into a steamer to start steaming for about 30 minutes; Finally, take out the bowl and let it warm, eat pears and drink soup.
From the two therapeutic prescriptions mentioned above, it is worth noting that both pear soup and stewed pear with Chuanbei have the blind food of pear.
Pear is one of the most common fruits in the world in daily life. Pear has been regarded as the "Sect of Hundred Fruits" since ancient times, which can relieve cough and phlegm, clear away heat and reduce fire, and is a good therapeutic prescription for autumn dryness and cough. If you don't have time to stew the therapeutic recipe or feel that the steps are too troublesome, I will introduce you to a platycodon grandiflorum pear soup.
According to pear's characteristics of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, it can not only clear away heat and relieve sore throat, but also moisten lung, nourish yin and resolve phlegm. It can be kept at home in autumn.
2, relieve cough, press more.
Yuji point is a special point on the lung meridian-Xing point, and it is also an important point for strengthening lung health. This acupoint has the function of clearing away heat, and has the best effect on relieving hot cough and dry cough caused by autumn dryness. At the same time, it is also known as the "life-saving point", which can introduce the lung meridian into the body through water and excrete the qi of the lung meridian in the body. It can be said that there are many benefits to rub and press the fish point every day.
Specific practice: Fishbone point is a bone-edge point, and the first metacarpal bone can be used as a marker to find the point. Open your palm and stroke down along the outer edge of the first metacarpal bone to find a depression, which is the thenar point. When pressing and rubbing the fish-bone point, you should refer to the needle, and you can press and rub it on the fish-bone point with your opposite thumb.
3, daily tonic: based on the principle of autumn harvest and yin, nourishing yin and nourishing lungs.
After beginning of autumn, the sun's spirit gradually closed, the yin gradually grew, and the climate gradually changed from hot to cold. Autumn is a transitional period in the metabolism of yin and yang, so the life activities of human body should be based on the principle of adopting yin qi.
"Su Wen, On the Method of Dirty Qi" says: Lung converges, and it is urgent to eat acid to collect it, and it is supplemented with acid, and it is pungent and diarrhea. Sour taste will converge lung qi, pungent taste will disperse and purge lung, so we should try to eat less pungent food such as onion and ginger, and should eat more sour vegetables, food and foods that nourish yin and moisten lung, such as lily, lotus root, radish, yam, tremella, grapefruit and apple.