Folk Chinese medicine always has some common cough remedies, such as baked oranges, steamed oranges with salt, grapefruit honey tea, rock sugar Sydney water, garlic water, ginger radish soup and so on. These remedies can play a certain role in relieving cough, but if you want to achieve better results, you still need to apply them in a targeted manner. So do you eat roasted oranges or oranges for coughing?

Both oranges and oranges can treat cough, but their effects are different. Oranges are mild in nature, and after roasting, they can have the function similar to tangerine peel, which is more suitable for wind-cold cough. However, oranges are cooler in nature and more suitable for wind-heat cough, and the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm after salt steaming is better.

Both salted steamed oranges and baked oranges can play an auxiliary role in the treatment of cough, and there is no difference between them. It can be properly selected according to the nature of cough.

1, the effect of steaming oranges with salt

Oranges contain two ingredients for relieving cough and resolving phlegm, namely narcotine and orange peel oil. Narcotine is a commonly used ingredient in cough medicine, and orange peel oil can also play a role in relieving cough and resolving phlegm. After the oranges are steamed with salt, the effective ingredients for relieving cough can be effectively released, thus giving full play to the better effect of relieving cough.

2. The effect of baking oranges

Turn the orange slowly over the slow fire, and bake it until the orange peel is dry and slightly burnt, without baking it until it is completely black. Fresh orange peel can be turned into dried tangerine peel in a short time after baking with small fire, which is more medicinal. The beneficial components in orange peel can also penetrate into the pulp, so as to play a stronger role in relieving cough and resolving phlegm, regulating qi and appetizing, and helping digestion.

3. The efficacy of honey grapefruit tea.

Both grapefruit and grapefruit peel are cool. Grapefruit peel contains volatile oil substances, which can relieve cough. It is suitable for cough caused by wind-heat or lung-heat. You can cut grapefruit peel into filaments and boil water, or you can eat grapefruit pulp directly. You can also make grapefruit peel and honey into honey grapefruit tea, which has the effects of regulating qi and resolving phlegm, moistening lung and relieving cough, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion.

Conclusion: It is ok to eat roasted oranges or oranges when coughing, but it is better to eat them according to the nature of cough, and the effect is better. Baked oranges are more suitable for cough caused by wind-cold colds, while steamed oranges with salt are more suitable for cough caused by wind-heat colds.