When they have a cold and a cough, many people don’t want to take medicine, so they want to treat the cough symptoms through dietary adjustments or small folk remedies. Steamed oranges with salt are a very common folk remedy for treating coughs. Many people When treating a cough, they will choose to eat salt-steamed oranges, but some people doubt the effect of salt-steamed oranges. So are salt-steamed oranges effective in treating coughs?

1. Is it effective in treating coughs?

Salt-steamed oranges and rock sugar garlic water have a good therapeutic effect on coughs, but they are suitable for different types of colds. The reason why salt-steamed oranges can have a cough-relieving effect is because they contain nostril and orange peel oil, two cough-relieving and cough-relieving ingredients.

2. Suitable for treating cough caused by lung heat

Oranges are mild and cool in nature, and are suitable for treating coughs caused by stagnation of qi, blood stasis or dryness of the lungs. If the cough is caused by wind-cold cold, It is not advisable to use salt to steam oranges, but rock sugar garlic water should be used.

3. Suitable for babies to relieve cough

Salt-steamed oranges are sweet and smooth, and there is no contraindication for consumption. Even if it is given to children aged 1 to 2 to relieve cough, there is no problem at all. However, children's immunity is relatively weak after all. If you have symptoms of persistent cough, do not delay and seek medical treatment immediately.

4. How to steam oranges with salt

1. Wash the oranges thoroughly and soak them in salt water for a while;

2. Cut off the tops of the oranges. Sprinkle a little salt evenly on the orange flesh, poke it a few times with chopsticks to allow the salt to penetrate, and put the lid back;

3. Put it in a bowl, steam it in a pot, and then steam it for about About ten minutes;

4. Take it out, peel it, and eat the pulp together with the steamed water.

5. It is not advisable to steam oranges with salt

The "steamed oranges with salt" circulated on the Internet is actually wrong. Oranges should not be chosen as an auxiliary fruit to treat coughs, but oranges. Because both tangerines and tangerines have a moist and hot nature and taste, eating too much is not good for the gastrointestinal tract and can easily cause internal heat. However, oranges have a mild nature and taste, so most people can eat them. However, if people mistakenly steam the object, eating "steamed oranges with salt" will not have any negative effects on the body, but the effect of auxiliary treatment of coughs can hardly be expected. So to cure a cough, you must steam oranges with salt.

6. Other cough remedies

1. Rock sugar bird's nest porridge to treat chronic cough due to lung deficiency

Method: 10 grams of bird's nest, 100 grams of rice, 50 grams of rock sugar . After washing the rice, put it into the pot, add three large bowls of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat. Put the fermented and pure bird's nest into the pot and cook it with the rice for about 1 hour, add rock sugar and dissolve. Application: nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. Treat chronic cough caused by lung deficiency and cough and asthma that damage yin.

2. Bird's nest and pear nourish lung yin

Method: 5 grams of bird's nest (soaked in water), 2 white pears, 10 grams of Fritillaria fritillary, and 5 grams of rock sugar. Scoop out the core of the white pear, put the other three flavors into the pear, cover and tie tightly, place in a bowl, stew in water and eat. Application: nourishing yin and moistening dryness, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. Cure phlegm cough, shortness of breath and fatigue for many years.

3. Radish and pepper to relieve cough and eliminate phlegm

Method: 1 radish, 5 white peppercorns, 3 slices of ginger, 1 slice of tangerine peel. Add water and fry for 30 minutes, drink the soup twice a day. Application: lowering Qi and eliminating phlegm, treating cough with excessive phlegm.

4. Soy milk moistens the lungs, relieves coughs and resolves phlegm

Method: Soak the soybeans and grind the juice, add rock sugar to the boil and drink. Drink 1 bowl on an empty stomach every morning. Applicable: To strengthen the spleen and widen the middle, moisten dryness and pinch water; clear the lungs and relieve cough, and resolve phlegm. Treat malnutrition, emaciation, lung-heat cough, etc.

5. Add sugar to tofu to relieve cough, reduce phlegm and relieve asthma

Method: 500 grams of tofu, 100 grams each of brown sugar and white sugar. Make a nest in the tofu, add brown sugar and white sugar, put it into a bowl and cook for 30 minutes. Eat it in one sitting and take it 4 times. Indications: clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, and treating cough, phlegm and asthma.

6. Treat coughs with corn silk and orange peel

Method: Appropriate amounts of corn silk and orange peel, *** add water to boil, take 2 times a day. Application: Relieving cough and reducing phlegm, treating cough due to wind-cold and excessive phlegm.

7. Radish and pig lung cough soup

Method: 1 radish, 1 pig lung, 15 grams of almonds. Add water and cook for 1 hour, then eat the meat and drink the soup. Application: Clearing heat and reducing phlegm, relieving cough and asthma, treating persistent cough, excessive phlegm and shortness of breath.