1, what is chronic bronchitis?
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chronic bronchitis is mostly caused by physical deficiency and cold. From the perspective of modern medicine, chronic bronchitis is a chronic and nonspecific inflammation that occurs in the trachea and its surrounding tissues. It has the symptoms of cough, expectoration and asthma. It is easily stimulated by the environment (air, humidity, temperature) and has repeated and persistent attacks. It can't stop at all, which makes people very tired!
2. What should chronic bronchitis eat?
(1) high protein
High-protein foods such as chicken, eggs, lean pork, freshwater fish and bean products can enhance the body's immunity.
(2) High vitamin content
Foods with high vitamin C content such as jujube, jujube, hawthorn, citrus, tomato, spinach, Chinese cabbage and Chinese cabbage can promote the formation of antibodies and improve the phagocytosis of white blood cells.
Foods with high vitamin A content, such as animal viscera, egg yolk, carrots, corn and tomatoes, can maintain the health of respiratory epithelial cells and tissues, and have certain benefits for relieving cough and preventing asthma.
(3) Food for invigorating spleen and lung.
For example, pears, loquats, dates, lilies, lotus seeds, tremella, walnuts, radishes, honey, or foods such as pig lungs, sheep lungs, and bovine lungs all have the effect of invigorating the spleen and benefiting the lungs, which is of great help to alleviate the symptoms of bronchitis.
(4) Drink plenty of water and fruit and vegetable juice.
Maintaining a daily drinking volume of 2,000 ~ 2,500 ml is conducive to the dilution of sputum and the relief of symptoms. In addition, fruit and vegetable juice also has a good effect on chronic bronchitis.
3. Small prescription for chronic bronchitis
(1) white radish and pepper water
Practice: Take white radish100g, 5 white peppers, appropriate amount of sugar, and dried tangerine peel10g. Add water * * * and fry for about 30 minutes, and you can drink it once a day in the morning and evening.
Efficacy: The Compendium of Materia Medica calls white radish "the most beneficial vegetable", which has the effects of removing diseases, moistening lung, detoxifying and promoting fluid production.
White pepper can lower qi, eliminate phlegm, warm the middle warmer and dispel cold; The main functions of ginger are sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, expelling wind and dispelling cold; The volatile oil contained in dried tangerine peel can promote expectoration of sputum.
4, chronic bronchitis diet taboo
(1) Avoid oil, frying and frying.
Oily, fried and fried food is not easy to digest, which easily interferes with spleen and stomach transport, generates heat and flatulence, helps dampness and produces phlegm, and aggravates the symptoms of cough and expectoration.
(2) Avoid spicy, salty and sweet food.
Foods such as pepper, pepper, ginger, onion, garlic, etc., if consumed too much, will easily produce symptoms such as yellow phlegm and sticky phlegm, which is not conducive to controlling inflammation; In addition, excessive intake of sweets and salty food will stimulate the throat and induce cough.
(3) Avoid food that produces phlegm
It is not advisable to eat more sweet and sour foods such as fish, shrimp, crab, watermelon, ginseng, coconut, cherry and pomegranate.
(4) avoid drinking a lot
Drinking a lot of alcohol will not only cause liver damage, but also reduce the immune function and resistance of the body, which will gradually aggravate the symptoms and eventually lead to emphysema and pulmonary heart disease.
5. Eat some light food
1) Fresh vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage, spinach, rape, radish, carrot, tomato, cucumber and wax gourd, can not only supplement the supply of vitamins and inorganic salts, but also have the functions of clearing phlegm, removing fire and relaxing bowels.
Recommended recipes:
Tremella rock sugar soup
Choose tremella10g and auricularia auricula10g, soak them in warm water, wash them and put them in a bowl with 30g of crystal sugar, add appropriate amount of water and steam them in a steamer for 3 hours. 2 ~ 3 tablespoons each time, 1 day 3 times, can nourish yin and tonify kidney, moisten lung and relieve cough.
2) Soybeans and bean products contain high-quality protein needed by human body, which can supplement the nutritional loss caused by chronic tracheitis, without the disadvantages of phlegm accumulation and fire.
3) When eating fruits, you can choose pears, apples, oranges, grapefruit, loquat, apricots, persimmons, water chestnuts and other fruits to eat, because these are all products that clear away heat and moisten the lungs, which is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of chronic bronchitis.