If you have a dry cough without phlegm, accompanied by shortness of breath, eat some apricot meat or almonds can be improved, almonds will be more effective. Apricots contain bitter amygdalin, have warm lungs, cold, cough expectorant effect.

Available north almonds four money, mint leaves a money, boiled into a tea, drink at any time, so that the throat of the phlegm and saliva gathered spit out slippery, and make the cough early to heal. Almonds on phlegm cough effect is very effective, eating method is not limited to boil mint water a, almonds can be made into almond paste, almond cheese, or almond malt syrup. If you add the tender beard four money, the money and a half of the mother of pearl, and the northern almonds boiled into sugar water, the effect is also good.

2, water chestnut

Whether eaten raw, cooked, or fried can be eaten, but it is best to steam or cooked to eat, but also can be peeled and squeezed, can treat sore throat, on the treatment of colds and coughs have a certain auxiliary effect.

Carrot 150 grams, horseshoe (water chestnut) 250 grams, 50 grams of rice. Carrot slices, horseshoes peeled and cracked, and rice with porridge, porridge into, with a little sugar or salt seasoning, can be eaten. Can clear heat and eliminate food, cough, expectorant, diuretic, laxative, suitable for wind-heat colds.

3, pineapple

Pineapple contains bromelain can not only help patients with colds and sore throats and coughing symptoms, but also effectively break down the protein in the food, increase gastrointestinal motility, enhance the body's immunity. Cold and cough may wish to drink a glass of fresh pineapple juice.

But do not overdo it or eat raw, untreated pineapple. Because it tends to reduce the sense of taste and irritate the oral mucosa; secondly it tends to lead to the production of pineapple protease, to which people who are allergic to this protease will experience symptoms such as itchy skin.

4, grapefruit

Grapefruit cold, sweet flavor. It contains a variety of nutrients, such as carotene, vitamin C, vitamin Bl, vitamin B6, niacin, etc. It can dissolve phlegm, relieve cough and benefit the lungs. Pomelo peel contains volatile essential oil components, Chinese medicine has a soothing effect on gastrointestinal discomfort, mild cough and cold.

Pomelo is a good fruit for nourishing the lungs and relieving coughs after colds in winter. For example, honey pomelo tea, which is very popular nowadays, has a good effect of nourishing the lungs and expectorant, and can beautify the skin.

5, sugar cane

Sugar cane is cold, sweet, can clear heat, and produce fluids. "With the rest of the house diet" that sugar cane has "good throat" effect, in the cold due to wind and heat, sore throat, dry mouth, coughing, eating sugar cane can clear the fire of the throat, alleviate the symptoms.

Treatment of colds and coughs drinking sugar cane winter flower tea, sugar cane juice 150cc, lily of the valley 5 money, winter flowers 3 money, the lily of the valley, winter flowers, wash, add 300cc of water, decoction for 15 minutes, pour into the sugar cane juice and stir evenly to drink tea.

6, pear

Pear is the folk cough with the most of a fruit, there is a thirst, heat and cough effect, used for heat disease Yin or Yin deficiency due to dry cough, thirst, constipation and other diseases, but also can be used for internal heat caused by thirst, coughing, phlegm yellow and other diseases.

Practice is also a lot, can be applied with Sichuan shellfish, rock sugar or honey boiled together; you can also dig out the core will be rock sugar, powdered shellfish added to the steamed directly after consumption, the effect is good.

7, apple

Eating red apples can make the body's disease-resistant organizations to produce a heat, while the special substances contained in the cold - cold-resistant factor directly resist the cold and flu viruses, accelerate recovery. It is more effective when eaten raw or juiced.

The general practice is and soak up the silver ear, wolfberry, jujube, etc. together with the soup to drink, have the effect of moistening the lungs and relieve cough; you can also use apple juice to drink, on the treatment of hoarseness of the throat, prevention of coughing has a certain effect.

8, lemon

Lemon effective against cold and flu viruses, especially at the beginning of cold and flu is the most suitable for drinking hot lemon water for the treatment of anti-tumor. In addition, hot lemon water has the effect of appetizers and food, and also applies to cold and flu patients with wind heat. If you drink more hot lemon water in normal times, you can replenish vitamin C, maintain the body and achieve the effect of preventing colds.

What is less known is that lemon can also be expectorant, and expectorant effect is stronger than orange and citrus. Lemon juice with warm water and salt, drink it can be accumulated in the throat of the thick phlegm smoothly cough out. At the beginning of the cold, may wish to use lemon and honey water drink, can relieve sore throat, reduce the dry throat and other discomforts.

9, citrus

Vitamin C has antioxidant and immune enhancement effect, if the cold patients daily intake of vitamin C, can reduce the symptoms of colds, shorten the duration of the disease. Mandarin oranges are rich in vitamin C and can quench your thirst, improve your throat and relieve your cough, so you only need to eat one mandarin orange a day to meet your body's vitamin C needs for a day, which is a good and inexpensive weapon to fight against colds.

Eating roasted oranges can calm coughs and dissolve phlegm, which is mainly the role of orange peel. Roasted oranges do not affect the taste and nutritional value, but also enhance the phlegm and cough. Wind-cold cold at the beginning of the person, even the skin while hot to eat baked tangerines, can make the amount of phlegm to reduce the cough significantly reduced.