Cough after a long illness, phlegm in the throat, be sure to find it.

Cough is a defensive action caused by some stimulus to the trachea, while phlegm is formed by bacteria or dust and tracheal secretions. Cough can be divided into dry cough and wet cough. When you have a dry cough, you will feel groggy and irritable, and you can't cough up phlegm. Common in the early stage of cold, bronchitis and pneumonia. Long-term persistent dry cough may be tuberculosis. The symptom of a wet cough is a persistent cough with phlegm in the throat.

Cough symptoms get worse several times, which will turn into wet cough. It often occurs in lung diseases, bronchiectasis and heart valves. If you have a bad cough or bloody or green sputum, you'd better see a doctor as soon as possible. In addition, you should also pay attention to whether there are symptoms such as chest pain, headache, abdominal pain or fever. When resting at home, try not to consume physical strength.

Effective food and taboo food

Effective food: when there is a little phlegm in dry cough and mucus is difficult to remove, you can eat pears, radishes, honey, tremella, lily roots and loquat leaves. The usage of loquat leaves is to brush off the hair on the leaves with a brush and drink it as tea. Wet cough with phlegm is suitable for eating dried tangerine peel or grapefruit.

When the body is hot and the sputum is yellow-green, this situation is generally called hot cough. At this time, you can eat radish, wax gourd, pear, seaweed, loquat leaves and persimmon and other foods with cooling effect. It is better to eat raw radish pieces, and the effect is better than that of cooked radish.

If the body is cold, sometimes it is cold, and the sputum is transparent, it is cold when it feels cold. Suitable foods are garlic, ginger, onion, dried tangerine peel, ginkgo, walnut and so on. Adding a little chopped ginger to the water can keep warm, and fighting for apricots can cure cough and asthma.

However, it should be noted that eating ginkgo raw can cause dizziness or spasm. So be sure to cook with fire. Adults can eat 10 a day, and children are limited to five. The fruit of Nandina domestica and the bark of cherry tree must be boiled before drinking.

When the fruits of Nandina domestica are ripe, they are dried. In terms of daily weight, 10 gram of fruit is added with 600 grams of water, simmered, removed from the pool, and boiled to half. Drink it three times between meals. The bark of cherry trees should be cut in June and July to remove the hard skin and green parts outside, and then dried. The daily dosage is about 5- 10, and the decoction and administration methods are the same as those of nandina domestica fruit.

Jujube wine also has the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm. The method is to use 18 liter of 35-degree distilled liquor, add 900 grams of jujube (only 300 grams if it is jujube), put it in the dark for 3 months, and ferment it. You can drink it directly or blend it with rock sugar and honey.

Taboo food: Excessive consumption of pork often produces phlegm. Therefore, it is best not to eat when people are prone to phlegm or fever. People with excessive phlegm should not eat more sea cucumbers. If people with asthma or cough eat sashimi easily, they will have symptoms such as fever, excessive phlegm and vomiting, and grilled fish can only be eaten in small quantities. In addition, glutinous rice and bamboo shoots will aggravate asthma or cough, and it is best to avoid eating those with cough symptoms.

A long-term cough is not necessarily tuberculosis, just as a cough is not necessarily caused by a cold. Cough in TCM can be roughly divided into four reasons:

colds cough

That is to say, according to western medicine, the virus invading the upper respiratory tract causes a series of reactions of the body's immune system. The secretion of trachea and nasal mucosa increases, and the patient has symptoms such as runny nose, stuffy nose and excessive phlegm. Because there is phlegm and saliva in the throat, reflex actions such as contraction and cough are made in order to eliminate phlegm. At the same time, the body tries to kill bacteria by raising the temperature (fever). This will continue until the virus is defeated.

cough with lung heat

This situation is very common. The difference between lung heat cough and cold cough is that lung heat cough may not be accompanied by symptoms such as bone pain, fever, cold and heat; On the contrary, it is accompanied by dry mouth, bitter taste, sore throat, yellow and thick phlegm and saliva and other signs of "dryness and heat". The cause of cough due to lung heat is that the body is full of heat and the mucosal tissue is congested, allowing bacteria to take advantage of it.

A faint cough

This situation is different from the above two coughs. People who cough due to qi deficiency and kidney deficiency will not have an earth-shattering cough, nor will they cough loudly and forcefully, but will only "cough" twice slightly and continuously. Patients always feel itchy throat, talk too much, or run a few steps, throat uncomfortable, can not help but gently cough twice. Cough may have slight gray-black sputum. This cough can last forever, with you all your life.

pulmonary tuberculosis

Cough caused by serious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and lung cancer. At this time, coughing is only one of the symptoms.

Classification and treatment of cough

cough

Once your throat itches, it's hard to control yourself from coughing in public. Although cough is annoying, it is not a disease in itself, but a protective reflex of the body.

According to the duration and expectoration, we can judge the cause of cough: sudden cough is often a protective cough caused by inhaling foreign bodies; Cough caused by a cold often lasts for several days; Usually, chronic persistent cough is mostly pathological, and the causes may be smoking, allergic reaction, asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, tuberculosis, lung cancer and so on.

From the nature, color and viscosity of cough products, we can know the nature and severity of the disease. Generally speaking, some coughs with low back pain, fever, body temperature above 39℃, headache and sore throat can be judged as influenza; If the sputum turns yellow-green, it means that the disease is bacterial infection, mostly upper respiratory tract infection, bronchitis, sinusitis and so on. If cough is accompanied by dyspnea, wheezing and chest tightness, it can be diagnosed as bronchial asthma; If you cough up pink blood sputum or yellow rust-like sputum, accompanied by chest pain, headache, fever and dyspnea, it may be pneumonia.

Hemoptysis is a serious symptom. If this happens, you should see a doctor at once. The root cause may or may not be serious. So be sure to go to the hospital for a systematic examination. Sometimes bleeding gums and nosebleeds may be mistaken for hemoptysis. Hemoptysis is generally caused by the rupture of nasal cavity, throat, trachea and pulmonary blood vessels. The most common cause is infection, such as bronchitis, tuberculosis, pneumonia and so on. Lung cancer and hemophilia can also cause massive hemoptysis.

Give full play to your body's own strength.

Generally speaking, cough is not a fatal disease. If you only have cold symptoms such as cough, stuffy nose and sore throat, you don't need to take medicine, just let the body's own immune system handle it. In fact, catching a cold occasionally is good for exercising our immune function. Abuse of antitussive drugs not only reduces the function of cleaning the respiratory tract, but also may cover up serious diseases, especially when cough is accompanied by a lot of expectoration. Therefore, whether antitussive drugs or secret recipes are used, the medication time should not exceed 7 ~ 10 days. It is best to use them only at night to relieve cough.

Selective drug use.

Generally speaking, cough caused by bacteria can be treated with antibiotics, but antibiotics for viral colds are useless. If the sputum of patients with cold is sticky, expectorants can be used to reduce sputum secretion. Patients with dry cough can use throat moistening tablets, licorice tablets or cough syrup to reduce the body's susceptibility and thus relieve cough. But no matter what medicine you use, remember, don't take it for too long, and you must be under the guidance of a doctor.

● Drink plenty of water.

Ingesting a lot of water helps to dilute phlegm and make it easy to cough up. Both boiled water and fruit and vegetable juice are good rehabilitation drinks. Pear juice, watermelon juice, apple juice, radish juice, etc. They are all good medicines for relieving cough. You might as well drink 4-5 large cups every day. But be careful not to add sugar and salt. If you want to drink something sweet, you can add a little honey. Honey has the function of moistening lung and relaxing bowels, which is beneficial to the relief of symptoms.

● Don't drink coffee and wine.

Try to avoid drinking drinks containing caffeine and alcohol, because these drinks have diuretic effect and make body fluids consume too fast.

Keep the air moist.

Increasing indoor air humidity is helpful to relieve discomfort such as cough, sore throat and dry nose. You can use a humidifier or teapot to boil water for humidification.

● Raise the pillow.

If coughing makes you insomnia, there are ways to relieve it. Try to put a pillow 20 cm high and sleep on your side. Can prevent mucus accumulation, and can also prevent irritating acidic substances in the stomach from flowing back to the esophagus for inhalation.

● acupressure therapy

Severe cough can lead to muscle contraction and even spasm in the upper back. At this time, pressing the Chise point of lung meridian can relieve the pain.

Balanced diet, tonic.

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