Cough is a common symptom in lung diseases, and its pathogenic cause is mainly external pathogens. In addition, endogenous phlegm and turbid qi and deficiency of both qi and yin can also cause cough. There are often differences between exogenous cough and internal injury in TCM clinic. Exogenous cough includes wind-cold cough and wind-heat cough. Cough due to internal injury can be divided into phlegm-heat type, phlegm-dampness type, qi-deficiency type and yin-deficiency type. Cough in children is difficult to treat, but if it is combined with proper medicated diet, it can promote the early recovery of cough.

Second, the general cough diet prescription

(1) Exogenous cough

1 Symptoms of wind-cold cough: Wind-cold cough is mostly caused by the invasion of wind-cold evil, the stagnation of lung qi in the body and the failure of lung defense. The main manifestations are cough, thin and white phlegm, itchy throat, often accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose, frequent sneezing, aversion to cold, headache, sore limbs, thin and white tongue coating, and tight pulse. Dietotherapy method:

(1) Stemona ginger juice: Stemona10g, 6g of ginger (mashed), add appropriate amount of water and decoct for 20-30min, remove the residue to get juice, add a little honey, and let the children take it warm for several times.

(2) Ginger and apricot soup: almonds10g (after soaking and washing, the outer skin and inner tip are removed and mashed), 6 grams of ginger (peeled and mashed with 4 grams of salt) and 5 grams of licorice (finely ground and slightly fried), mix well together, and make soup with boiling water, and you can drink it.

2, wind-heat cough symptoms: cough is uncomfortable or the cough sound is heavy and turbid, and the spit is thick and yellow, with a small amount of bloodshot, which is not easy to cough up, thirst, sore throat, and turbid nose; Or accompanied by fever, headache, fear of wind, slight sweating; The tongue is red with a thin yellow coating. Dietotherapy method:

(1) Sangju almond tea: 9g of mulberry leaves, 9g of chrysanthemum and 6g of almonds (mashed into mud), which are decocted in water together, and the juice is taken, and honey15g is added, so that it can be taken warm.

(2) pear juice: pear100g (washed, pitted and sliced), Fritillaria cirrhosa 5g (mashed) and platycodon grandiflorum 8g, all of which are put into a pot, decocted in water for about10min, then added with chrysanthemum10g, and boiled for 5min, and the residue is removed to get juice.

(3) Pear juice porridge: fresh Yali pear 1 piece, chopped with skin, put in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, decoct for 30 minutes, remove residue, and cook with 50 grams of washed japonica rice to make porridge, and then take it warm.

(2) Cough due to internal injuries

1, phlegm-heat cough symptoms: cough sputum is multicolored and yellow, and the sputum is thick and difficult to cough up. Some children even have shortness of breath and have a squeaky throat; Or accompanied by fever, thirst, restlessness, short urine volume, yellow urine color, dry stool; The tongue is red in color and yellow in coating. Dietotherapy method:

(1) Boiled pork lungs with coix seed: 30g of coix seed (smashed into powder), pork lungs 1 piece (washed, white in color), put in a pot, and add appropriate amount of water. Boil it with high fire first, then cook it with low fire, and you can eat it.

(2) Winter melon soup: wax gourd kernel, wax gourd peel and Ophiopogon japonicus each15g, and decocted with appropriate amount of water.

(3) Fresh Chrysanthemum morifolium soup: fresh Chrysanthemum morifolium150g, decocted in water to remove residue, and added with appropriate amount of rock sugar, and served in several times.

2, phlegm cough symptoms: cough phlegm, white and thin sputum, snoring between the throat, chest tightness, bad appetite, drowsiness; The tongue is reddish in color and white in coating. Dietotherapy method:

(1) fragrant radish: choose fresh and tender radish, clean it, cut it into dices, marinate it with salt overnight (50 grams of salt per kilogram of radish), and dry it in the sun; Mix a proper amount of ginger, orange peel, pepper and fennel with radish, then boil the vinegar and pour it into the mix, or add a little sugar to taste. The fragrant radish is delicious and can also be eaten as a dish.

(2) Orange black tea: orange red 1 tablet, 4 ~ 5g of green tea, put them together in a cup and brew them with boiling water, so that children can drink them frequently.

3, qi deficiency cough symptoms: cough repeatedly, especially in the early morning, white and thin. Children are pale, easy to sweat for no reason, afraid of cold, short of breath when breathing, too lazy to talk, speak softly, and eat without taste; The tongue is reddish, and there are teeth marks beside it. Dietotherapy method:

(1) Huangqi Cordyceps Chicken Soup: Chicken100g, washed, degreased and cut into pieces. Blanch the chicken pieces in boiling water, put them in a stew pot together with Astragalus membranaceus10g, Cordyceps sinensis 5g and Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae 3g, add a proper amount of boiling water into the stew pot, simmer for 3h, and serve after seasoning.

(2) Bean paste porridge: 500 grams of soybean milk, together with 50 grams of cleaned japonica rice, are put into a casserole, first boiled with strong fire, and then boiled with slow fire into porridge (porridge is boiled until the surface is covered with porridge oil). Add appropriate amount of sugar to taste, and then take it warm.

4, symptoms of cough due to yin deficiency: dry cough without phlegm, or phlegm is less and sticky, not easy to cough up, thirsty, dry throat, itchy throat, hoarse voice. In the afternoon, I feel hot flashes in my body or hot hands and feet, night sweats; The tongue is red, with little coating or a map-like flower peeling. Dietotherapy method:

(1) tremella pear paste: tremella10g (soaked and washed) and pear100 ~150g (pitted and sliced), put them together in a pot, add appropriate amount of water and cook them together, and add rock sugar/kloc when tremella is soft and rotten and soup is thick.

(2) tremella and lily adenophora decoction: tremella 1 0g (soaked in clear water for several hours until it swells, then washed), lily15g, glehnia littoralis10g, and appropriate amount of rock sugar, put them together in a casserole, add appropriate amount of clear water, boil with strong fire and then cook with slow fire for about1hour.

(3) Bird's Nest and American ginseng soup: bird's nest10g (soaked in clear water to remove feather impurities), 5g of American ginseng (washed and sliced), and a little crystal sugar, all of which are put into a stewing pot, then added with appropriate amount of boiling water, covered with the stewing pot, stewed with slow fire for 3 hours, and served after seasoning.

Third, chronic cough

1, almond porridge

Grind peeled sweet almond10g into a paste, add it to 50g of cleaned japonica rice, add a proper amount of water to boil, and then cook it with slow fire. This recipe originated from "Heart Mirror of Food Doctor", and should be taken when it is warm, twice a day, and can be used for breakfast and dinner.

2, pear white radish square

White radish 1 piece, pear 1 piece, white honey 1 piece, a little white pepper, put them in a bowl and steam them. Take it twice a day.

3, brown sugar, red dates and ginger drink

50g of brown sugar, 50g of red dates and 0/5g of ginger/kloc. Add 3 bowls of water and bring to a boil. It should be taken while it is hot, three times a day.

4. Lily powder porridge

30g of lily powder (60g of fresh lily, dried and ground into powder) and 0/00g of japonica rice/kloc are washed and boiled in water. When the porridge is cooked, add lily powder and appropriate amount of crystal sugar, and then cook until the porridge is cooked. This recipe originated from Compendium of Materia Medica, and can be taken for breakfast and dinner, 1~2 times a day. It is suitable for senile chronic bronchitis, lung heat and dry cough.

5. Chuanbei porridge

Wash clean japonica rice100g and add appropriate amount of sugar to cook porridge. When the porridge is almost cooked, add 5 5~ 10/0g of Fritillaria cirrhosa powder and boil. This recipe originated from Zi Sheng Lu, and it can be taken warm twice a day to make breakfast and dinner. It is suitable for cough caused by tuberculosis, emphysema and bronchitis.

6, honey lotus root powder drink

Dissolve 30 grams of lotus root starch with a little boiling water, then rinse with boiling water, let it stand for a while, add 30 grams of honey and stir well. This product should be taken when it is warm, two doses a day.

Fourth, autumn dryness and cough

According to China medicine, autumn corresponds to lung, and dryness is the main qi of autumn. The evil of autumn dryness easily invades the lungs through the mouth, nose, respiratory tract or fur, which affects the lung's moist function. The symptoms of dry cough are often manifested as persistent dry cough, no phlegm or less phlegm, bloodshot sputum, dry mouth and sore throat, itchy throat and hoarseness. And dry cough peculiar to autumn occurs. Prevention and treatment should choose nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing lung and relieving cough. The following dietotherapy prescriptions have good curative effects on cough caused by dry cough, acute and chronic bronchitis and cold.

1, stewed Sydney with almonds

Sweet almond15g, peeled and broken; Sydney 1 piece, peeled and sliced, added with 20g of rock sugar, and boiled in water 1 hour. Every morning and evening 1 time, 3~5 times in a row.

2. Stewed Sydney with Chuanbei

Sydney 1 piece, cut horizontally, shelled and put 6 grams of fritillary bulb. Put the two halves together, fix them with toothpicks, add 20 grams of rock sugar and appropriate amount of water, and stew for 30 minutes. Eat pears and drink soup once a day 1 time for 3~5 days.

3, Sydney white lotus root juice

Peel and stone Sydney; Equal amount of white lotus root is removed, chopped, twisted to extract juice, and frequently drunk instead of tea.

4, white fungus stewed rock sugar

5 grams of tremella, soaked in cold boiled water 1 hour, shredded. Add 30 grams of rock sugar and stew, and take it every night before going to bed.

5, tremella rock sugar pot Sydney

5g of tremella, Sydney 1 piece (washed and cut into large pieces for later use), lotus seeds 1 piece, appropriate amount of rock sugar, and stewed in a water-proof pot1hour. Can be eaten several times a day, with proper amount each time.

6, pear porridge

3 pears and 50 grams of rice (porridge). Ya pear is boiled in water for half an hour. Take the juice and add rice porridge to eat while it is hot. Treat cough caused by lung heat.

7. Lily almond porridge

50g of fresh lily (30g of dried lily), 50g of almond 1 0g (peeled and broken) and 50g of japonica rice, cooked together as porridge, mixed with white honey and warmed for 3 times a day.

8. Cane pulp porridge

500 grams of fresh sugarcane, peeled and juiced. 50 grams of japonica rice porridge, mixed with 50 ml of sugarcane juice, boiled and served warm.

9. Water centipede rock sugar

One or two centipede roots, boiled water and stewed rock sugar clothes.

Fifth, folk remedies for cough

(1) Four methods of treating cough with eggs

1, vinegar fried eggs for cough

Fried eggs with vinegar has a miraculous effect on all kinds of cough.

The method is: take an egg 1 egg, beat it in a bowl and mix well, put half a spoonful of rice vinegar in a wok, boil it with slow fire, then put the egg in a frying pan, add a proper amount of sugar when the egg is cooked, and eat it immediately after cooling. Eat/kloc-0 each in the morning and evening. Generally, you can stop coughing if you eat it twice, and you can recover in 3 days if you are serious.

2, ginger fried eggs to relieve cough

The practice is: take a small piece of ginger and chop it up, one egg and a little sesame oil, just like frying poached eggs (Jiang Mo is sprinkled into the eggs).

After frying, eat it while it is hot, twice a day, and cough will recover after a few days. This "medicine" is delicious and has a good curative effect. Those who have no abnormal lungs after a long cough can try it.

3, ginger scrambled eggs to relieve cough

The method is: Dice or shred ginger, beat the eggs into a bowl and mix well, then pour a little oil into the pot to heat it, then put the shredded ginger in the oil for a while, and finally pour in the eggs and fry them, and eat them while they are hot. You can control the amount you eat, and it is better to eat at night before going to bed.

4, sugar mixed with eggs

People with chronic bronchitis are prone to cough, chest pain, shortness of breath and upset after catching a cold. It is very effective to mix eggs with white sugar and take it after cooking. The method is as follows: take a fresh egg, knock it in a small bowl, don't break the yolk and egg white, add a proper amount of sugar and a spoonful of vegetable oil, put it in a pot and cook it in water, and eat it at once before going to bed at night. Cough can be cured after eating 2 ~ 3 times. People with stubborn cough can eat more times.

(2) Three methods of walnut for treating cough

1, sesame walnut wine (water chestnut tonifying kidney and relieving cough)

Home-made sesame walnut wine is beneficial to the kidney to relieve cough and treat low back pain.

Take 500 grams of white wine as an example, add 30 grams of washed black sesame seeds and 30 grams of walnut kernels, seal them and put them in a cool place, and soak them for 15 days, and drink them twice a day, each time 15 grams.

2, water chestnut walnut (for children with pertussis)

Children suffer from whooping cough. Eating water chestnut with walnuts can relieve cough. For the convenience of eating, after peeling, you can eat water chestnut and walnut together, and the effect is very good. Take these two things two or three times a day, three or four each time.

3, walnut, sesame, ginger powder for cough

5 walnuts, 25 grams of raw sesame, 25 grams of ginger, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.

Walnut and raw sesame are mashed into powder, and ginger is peeled and mashed into powder. Concentrate in a bowl, add brown sugar and stir well.

Take one tablespoon (about 30g) at a time and take it with boiled water once a day, morning and evening.

(C) pear cough three methods

1, steamed honey pear

Cut the pear into a triangle like a watermelon; Then hollowed out, add a proper amount of honey; Then cover the triangle, put it in a bowl with the opening upward, steam it in a pot for a quarter of an hour, and take it out while it is hot.

2, steamed pepper pear (cough and asthma)

Raw pear 1 piece, poke a few small holes, put pepper 1 piece into each hole, stew in water, remove pepper after cooling, and eat pear juice. It can relieve cough, eliminate phlegm and relieve asthma.

3. Stewed mushrooms with pear juice

First, peel and slice four pears and squeeze them into juice. Wash and slice 200g of mushrooms, add appropriate amount of water and rock sugar, and stew them together. After the mushrooms are cooked, eat the soup twice in the morning and evening. Pear can moisten lung, cool heart, eliminate phlegm and reduce fire. Interferon produced by double-stranded sugar nucleic acid in mushroom in human body can eliminate virus and infection in the body, and generally takes two or three days to see the effect.

(4) Garlic and ginger (for cough, epistaxis and constipation)

1, before going to bed, put garlic slices on Yongquan point (at the foot of 1/3), and stick them firmly with medical adhesive tape; The time is about 8 hours (garlic is irritating to the skin, so it should not be stuck for too long);

It has certain curative effect on cough, epistaxis (commonly known as nosebleed) and constipation, and the effect is better if it is applied continuously for 7 ~10 days. A few people have blisters on the soles of their feet, so they can stop applying them until the skin recovers after the blisters are broken, and generally no more blisters.

2. Wash and peel ginger, cut it into pieces, and put a piece in your mouth when coughing, which has a good effect of relieving cough and itching.

(5) Radish cures cough.

1, boiled radish water (for cough)

Cut fresh white radish into pieces and cook with clear water; After boiling, filter out the water with a teacup or a small bowl, and drink it after it is slightly cold.

If you drink it for several days, your cough will be cured.

2, burning radish to relieve cough

Cut the radish into strips or slices about 5 cm thick, put it in the stove (the gas stove can be baked in a pot), and burn it to a half-baked degree. Take it out of the stove and eat it while it is hot. After a few coughs, it will get better.

3, radish soup to relieve cough

5 pieces of white pepper, radish100g, 3 pieces of ginger, and dried tangerine peel10g, and fry until cooked. It has the best effect on cough with thin phlegm and foam.

4, white radish and pear water cough method

White radish, pear and rock sugar are boiled with water to make pear water instead of water, which has a good cough relieving effect.

5, radish mixed with maltose to relieve cough

Peel white radish, add proper amount of maltose and mix well to treat intractable cough. Effect is very good

6, shredded pear mixed with radish

Ingredients: 250g white radish, 0/00g pear/kloc-,a little ginger, salt and sugar.

Practice: Cut the radish into shreds, blanch it in boiling water for 2 minutes, add shredded pears, a little Jiang Mo and a proper amount of sugar and salt, mix well and eat cold.

Intimate tip: radish can relieve qi, reduce phlegm and relieve cough, pear can moisten lung and promote fluid production to relieve cough, and ginger can disperse lung and relieve cough.

(6) Two methods of almond treating cough due to lung deficiency.

1, the cure method of lung deficiency and cough and asthma: about 20g of sweet almonds are soaked in hot water at 60℃, peeled and smashed, boiled with rice (50 ~100g) in water, put in10g of rock sugar after boiling, and boiled into a thick shape.

2. When you have a cold and have a severe cough, you should break open the apricot kernels left when eating sweet apricots and take almonds. After chewing one, the severe cough stops. After chewing one every 2 hours, take it twice, and the cough can basically be cured.

(7) crystal sugar banana for relieving cough

About 5 grams of rock sugar and 2 ~ 4 bananas are put into a bowl and put into a pot. After the pot is boiled, it can be eaten with slow fire 15 minutes. The cough relieving effect is very good.

(8) Apply essential balm to relieve cough and asthma

When you suffer from asthma and cough, you can apply wind oil essence to the front neck and both sides of the neck, and the cough will stop immediately, and at the same time, it can calm the phlegm and asthma.

(9) Momordica grosvenori soaked in water to treat cough

Wash Siraitia grosvenorii, dig out the shell, put the belt pulp together in a water cup and add bubbles. The soaked water is reddish brown, slightly sweet and tastes good. Drink water several times a day after drinking it. After one day, the cough was greatly relieved, and it was cured in two days.

(10) Take a bellybutton to keep warm and relieve cough.

Every winter, the elderly are prone to cough, so a cotton bellybutton belt can play a role in keeping warm and is effective in stopping cough.

(eleven) eat watermelon to prevent cough in summer.

Buy a small watermelon, dig a small mouth, put in 4 Liang rock sugar and steam for 20 minutes, and take it while it is hot. The effect is excellent.

(12) Treating dry cough

1, boiled pear with mung bean soup

Take mung bean100g, two pears and make soup, and eat pear soup once in the morning and once in the evening. Sticking to it for a period of time can cure dry cough without recurrence.

2. Steamed ginkgo with rock sugar

3 yuan of ginkgo and 2 yuan of rock sugar are steamed with a little water, taken once a day before going to bed at night, and can cure dry cough for one month. When steaming, first break the ginkgo into slag, bubble it with water, and then put in rock sugar.

(13) Two methods for relieving cough with peanuts

1, boiled peanuts with milk

Mash a handful of raw peanuts, boil them in milk, and then take them while they are hot, 2 ~ 3 times a day, which can effectively treat cough.

2. Boil soup with peanuts, red dates and honey

Take 30g of peanuts, 30g of jujube and 30g of honey, fry them with water, and eat peanuts and jujube and drink their soup twice a day for several times.

(14) Duck eggs cure cough.

1, fried duck eggs with vinegar

Beat one fresh duck egg into aluminum pot, stir well, then stir-fry with a spoon (paste prevention), half-cooked, add 25 grams of aged (rice) vinegar, and continue to stir-fry until cooked. Eat it while it is hot, once in the morning and once in the evening. Take it continuously 10 days, and the cough can be cured.

2. Steamed duck eggs with fungus

Take 1 0g of auricularia auricula,1duck egg and a little crystal sugar, add some water and stir, then steam cooked food twice a day, which can cure cough due to yin deficiency and lung dryness. This method is also effective for dry throat and less phlegm.

(fifteen) honey cough two methods

1, honey pig suet for relieving cough

60 grams of honey, 60 grams of pig's suet oil, oil to remove residue, pour into honey, melt and boil. Take a spoonful of boiling water every morning and evening, and double it in winter.

2, honey water to relieve cough

Honey16g, taken with boiling water, twice a day, divided in the morning and evening.

(16) Milk and fresh ginger to relieve cough

Take milk and fresh ginger, mash ginger to get juice, add ginger juice after the milk is boiled, boil for a while, then take out the pot, let it cool and drink.

(XVII) Cough-relieving Lotus Root Soup (resolving phlegm and relieving cough)

5~ 10 pieces of red dates (depending on the size of fruit), 20~30 pieces of medlar, 2 pieces of ginger, brown sugar 1 spoon, and 2 spoons of pure lotus root powder.

Wash the red dates, cut them open with a knife, put them into the pot with Lycium barbarum, ginger and brown sugar, add 3 bowls of water, boil them first with high fire, and continue to cook for 20 minutes with low fire.

Mix 2 tablespoons of lotus root powder with cold water first, thicken while it is hot, and then turn off the heat and stew for 5 minutes when it rolls.

Take it in the morning and evening for half a month, and the cough relieving effect is very significant. It is also effective for asthma and bronchitis.

(18) Luffa porridge

500g of towel gourd, 50g of japonica rice100g, 5g of dried shrimps15g, and a proper amount of ginger and onion.

Wash towel gourd with skin and cut into pieces for later use.

Cooking porridge with japonica rice will add loofah, dried shrimps and other ingredients when cooked. For breakfast and dinner.

(19) Stewed chicken with ginkgo for cough.

Ginkgo biloba is the kernel of ginkgo biloba, which is sweet, slightly bitter, warm and slightly toxic. In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen once said it: "Enter the lung meridian, benefit the temper, relieve asthma and cough, and reduce defecation." It is also a fruit with a unique flavor. Cooked food tastes soft and delicious, and edible medicines are homologous. It is often stewed, roasted, simmered and steamed with animal foods, and stewed chicken with ginkgo is one of the representatives.

The specific production method is as follows: Ginkgo biloba is soaked in warm water for 2-3 hours, and then the epidermis and germ are removed. Then cut the slaughtered chicken into pieces, blanch it in boiling water, take it out, rinse it in clear water, put it in a casserole and add a proper amount of clear water. Then put the soaked ginkgo into a casserole, boil it with high fire, skim off the floating foam, turn it off to low heat and simmer it slowly. Patients with cough, fever and poor breathing can eat it.

It should be noted that ginkgo has little toxicity, and it is appropriate to take10-15g every time. If you have symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, you should go to the hospital immediately. In addition, people with physical deficiency and cold should not eat it.

(20) Pumpkin rattan juice for relieving cough

Fresh pumpkin vines are decapitated and inserted into the bottle. After one night, juice will be dripped into the bottle the next day. Take the juice daily and take it with boiling water, which can effectively relieve cough.

(21) Eating ginger slices can also relieve cough.

Wash a piece of ginger, peel it, cut it into pieces, put a piece in your mouth when you cough, and the cough will stop immediately. Take another tablet when the throat itches again, twice a day, once before going to bed at night, and two or three times the next day, and the cough will be cured.

(twenty-two) drink salty orange water

Stir the salted orange and drink it with water twice a day.

(23) Treating cold and cough with brown sugar, ginger and jujube soup

30g of brown sugar, 0g of fresh ginger15g, and 30g of red dates. Fry in three bowls of water until half way through, and then take it suddenly, and it will heal after taking it, so as to dispel wind and cold. Treat colds and coughs; Stomach cold stings; Postpartum cold diarrhea; Evil yin, etc.

(twenty-four) rock sugar mixed with sesame seeds

Stir-fry a catty of sesame seeds, cool them and put them in a box. Mash four or two pieces of rock sugar, mix well with sesame seeds, and dry chew two tablespoons a day to clear away lung heat and tonify kidney.

(25) Steamed oranges with salt

1, wash. 2. cut. 3. Sprinkle a little salt on the orange meat. 4, chopsticks inserted a few times, salt is easier to penetrate. 5. Cover the "orange cover". 6. Keep the orange body upright in a small bowl and steam for 10- 15 minutes (when the water boils). 7. Peeling, eating meat and drinking juice (including the essence in the bowl) can be used by babies and adults.

I hope I can help you.