When you first start coughing, boil some radish water. A large white radish (preferably stupid radish), one or two pears, ten grams of lily of the valley, five grams of Chuanbei mother of pearl (in the drugstore pounded) boiled water two to three bowls. (Love coughing people usually can often drink, lily and Chuanbei amount halved, you can also add the right amount of rock sugar to drink)

Three grams of Chuanbeimu pounded, snow pear a pear target there to cut off the standby, the pear nucleus hollowed out, the Chuanbeimu into the and add a little honey (honey can cover Chuanbeimu on the line, do not have to be too much) and then put the pear target back in the toothpick fixed in a small bowl of water steam for twenty minutes, out of the pot! Eat while hot. The soup in the small bowl should also be drunk.

Dry red dates pitted, ginger minced, filled, roasted on an iron pot, (small fire) until that date skin is more dry, ginger minced are very hot, the flavor of the date are baked out, eat while hot. Seven at a time.

This is all I have eaten since I was a child with a cough, all very useful.