For healthy people, colds and coughs can be overcome without taking medicine. For people with weak health, they should seize the time to see a doctor. They should also pay attention to their diet and clothing, otherwise they will lose their clothes for a long time. It will be troublesome if it slowly turns into rhinitis. I found a few recipes and posted them for you. You can choose them yourself! 1. Folk prescriptions to treat coughs. Use ginger to treat coughs. The weather is cold, and the elderly have insufficient righteousness and are most susceptible to colds and coughs. Although these appear to be minor problems, they are difficult to cure, and there may be hidden dangers behind them. Here is a small prescription that is effective in treating cough after a cold. Take a piece of ginger, wash it, peel it and slice it, carry it with you. When you cough, put a piece in your mouth and chew it. You will feel spicy and hot in your mouth, throat and chest, and your cough will stop. When your throat feels itchy, chew a piece of ginger. Ginger is pungent and warm in nature, and returns to the lung and spleen meridians, dispelling cold, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. There are proverbs such as "Three slices of ginger a day to prevent the doctor from prescribing medicine" and "One piece of ginger in a cup of tea is a good way to keep out the cold and strengthen the stomach." Chewing slices of ginger in the morning can also increase appetite and increase cold resistance. 2. Fuming feet with mugwort leaves cures cough. Cough is one of the most common respiratory symptoms. For coughs caused by wind and cold, if antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antitussive medicines are ineffective, a simple cough treatment method can be used - fumigating feet with mugwort leaves. This method can achieve satisfactory results for patients. The specific method is as follows: put 30 to 50 grams of mugwort leaves into about 1500 ml of boiling water and fry for about 15 minutes, remove the mugwort leaves, and pour the decoction into a small foot basin. While it is hot, place your feet on the edge of the basin to receive the fumigation. To prevent the medicinal gas from evaporating at once, you can cover your feet with a piece of cloth slightly larger than the foot basin. When the water temperature is slightly lower and your feet can tolerate it, you can directly place your feet in the basin to soak. This method is performed once a night (preferably before going to bed) for 15 to 20 minutes each time. Generally, cough can be cured after 3 to 5 consecutive times. 3. Rice porridge with green onions and ginger can cure coughs. Recipe: 10 grams of ginger, 10 grams of green onion stems, 50 grams of rice. Preparation and usage: mince the ginger and mince the white green onions and set aside. Cook the rice into porridge. After the porridge is cooked, add ginger and scallions and cook briefly. Indications: Cough due to wind-cold. 4. Make homemade wine to treat cough. The method of making homemade wine is as follows: Grapes can be any variety, rock sugar and white wine must be grain wine, 1000 grams each. Wash the container and grapes, grind the unpeeled grapes and rock sugar into fine powder, put it into the container, pour in white wine, seal the lid, leave it indoors for a month and then open the lid. Squeeze the grapes into juice, remove the grape skins and seeds, stir evenly, bottle and drink. Take it once every night before going to bed, and the dosage should not exceed 25 grams. Note that no other food should be eaten after drinking. Some data show that eating grapes has the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving coughs. Drinking wine does have some effects that cannot be achieved by drinking wine for coughs that have not been cured by taking medicine for many years.