Because each bronchiectasis patient has different characteristics, there are also differences in diet. Let’s briefly talk about the dietary matters that patients with bronchiectasis need to pay attention to in daily life.

1. Bird's nest: It has the effect of nourishing lung yin and moistening lung dryness. It is most suitable for patients with bronchiectasis and cough and hemoptysis due to yin deficiency and dryness. You can cook porridge, soup, or steam it with rock sugar.

2. Winter melon seeds: They have antitussive and expectorant effects. People with bronchiectasis and cough due to phlegm-heat are suitable to use 15 grams of winter melon seeds, add appropriate amount of rock sugar, mash and grind finely, twice a day. Take with boiling water.

3. Lotus leaf: It has the effect of relieving hemoptysis. It is suitable for people with bronchiectasis who cough and hemoptysis. Decoct water instead of tea, or grind dry lotus leaves into powder, 3 times a day, 5~5 times each time. 6 grams, take with rice soup.

4. Yam: It has the effects of nourishing the lungs and resolving phlegm. It can be used as a vegetable for patients with bronchiectasis and is suitable for stewing in soups and cooking.

5. Reed root: It is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and has the effect of clearing away heat from the lungs. "Medicine Zhongshenxilu" also says: "Its cool nature can clear away heat in the lungs, and its hollow shape can regulate lung qi, and its taste is sweet and liquid, which is better at nourishing lung yin." People with bronchiectasis should often choose fresh reed. 150-250 grams of root can be decocted in water instead of tea.

6. Cigu: Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty believed that Cigu was "bitter and sweet, slightly cold". "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" also said that it can "relieve coughs, blood in sputum or coughing up blood", and introduced the use of several raw arrowheads, mash them and mix them with honey, steam them with rice, and take them while they are hot to treat Methods for coughing up blood due to lung deficiency. Therefore, patients with bronchiectasis are suitable to eat arrowroot

7. Lotus root joints: It has the effect of stopping bleeding. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "It can stop coughing up blood." It can also stop vomiting blood. People with bronchiectasis and hemoptysis should drink 5 to 10 lotus root joints boiled in water.

8. Seaweed: It is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effect of clearing lung heat and purifying phlegm. Therefore, it is especially suitable for patients with bronchiectasis who cough and vomit yellow purulent phlegm.

Foods suitable for patients with bronchiectasis include peanuts, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, radish, cucumber, bitter melon, vegetable melon, celery, winter melon, mung bean sprouts, sugar cane, tofu, soy milk, banana, honey, pear, loofah, Spinach and other foods should not be eaten hot foods, such as leeks, mutton, ginger and other foods.