Symptoms of wind-heat cough: yellow and thick phlegm, bitter mouth and dry throat, sore throat, short and yellow urine. Treatment should be clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
Symptoms of wind-cold cough: runny nose, itchy throat, frequent cough, white and thin sputum. Treatment should be to dispel wind and cold, warm lung, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.
Wind-heat cough diet therapy
1. Pear+rock sugar+Fritillaria.
Cross-cut the pear according to the handle, dig out the core in the middle, add 2~3 crystal sugar and 5~6 Fritillaria cirrhosa (Fritillaria cirrhosa should be broken into powder), put the pear in a bowl, steam it for about 30 minutes, and give it to the baby twice. This recipe has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Because babies nowadays are generally greedy for cold, they blow air conditioners when they are hot and eat cool fruits all the year round, so the number of babies suffering from wind-heat cough is obviously reduced.
2. Houttuynia cordata can pig lung
30g of houttuynia cordata and 250g of pig lung; Wash pig lungs separately, cut into pieces, fry them thoroughly in an iron pan, then rinse them with clear water and drain them. Add 1/4 Siraitia grosvenorii into the above materials, put it in a pot, add a proper amount of water, boil it with strong fire and simmer for 2 hours, fry it into 2-3 bowls, season it with salt, and drink it for 2-3 times. This soup has the function of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and has obvious curative effect on wind-heat cough.
3. You can also give your baby the following foods:
1 persimmon: cold, can clear away heat, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. But the baby can only eat one at a time, and eating too much will make him uncomfortable.
② Watermelon: cold in nature can cure all fever. If the baby suffers from wind-heat cough in summer, give him more watermelon and drink more water at the same time.
3 loquat: cool, can moisten the lungs, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough. Suitable for babies with fever, cough, yellow pus and phlegm.
4 water chestnut: cold in nature, water chestnut can resolve phlegm and clear heat. Peel 2~3 horseshoes, cut them into thin slices, put them in a pot, add a bowl of water and burn them on the fire for 5 minutes. This prescription has a good effect on patients with fever, cough and expectoration.
When the baby coughs due to wind-heat, you can also give him melon simmer soup, fried loofah, fried lotus root slices and fried bitter gourd, which also plays the role of removing fire, dispelling fire and relieving cough. It is forbidden to eat spicy and easily get angry, such as mutton, dog meat, silky fowl, fish, shrimp, jujube, longan, litchi, walnut kernel, pepper, cherry, silkworm chrysalis, etc.
Dietotherapy for Cold Cough
1. Ginger+brown sugar+garlic
The child has a cold, and drinking warm ginger and brown sugar water can play a very good therapeutic role. If the child has a cough at the same time, you can add 2 ~ 3 cloves of garlic to the ginger brown sugar water and cook it together. It takes 10 minutes to boil out the spicy taste of garlic and make children willing to drink it.
Steamed garlic water
Take 2 ~ 3 cloves of garlic, mash them, put them into a bowl, add half a bowl of water, add a crystal sugar, cover the bowl and steam in a pot. After the fire boils, steam it on low heat 15 minutes. When the water temperature of the garlic in the bowl is hot, feed it to the children, and garlic can be eaten without it. Usually 2 ~ 3 times a day, a small bowl. Garlic is warm and enters the spleen and stomach and lung meridians. It has a very good effect on treating cold cough and kidney deficiency cough, and it is convenient and simple, and children are willing to drink it.
3. scrambled eggs with ginger sesame oil
Put a teaspoon of sesame oil in a wok, heat the oil, add Jiang Mo, soak in the oil for a while, then add 1 egg and stir well. When children cough due to cold and physical weakness, let them eat it while it is hot before going to bed every night for a few days, and you will get obvious results.
4. Pear+Chili+rock sugar
Pears 1 piece, washed, cut horizontally and hollowed out the core in the middle, add 20 prickly ash and 2 crystal sugar, then put the pears in a bowl and steam on the pot for about half an hour. A pear can be eaten twice. Steamed pepper and rock sugar pear are very effective in treating colds and coughs, but some children don't like the taste of pepper, so parents can choose for themselves.
The above is the prescription for treating cough due to wind-cold. Parents should also pay attention to the following raw and cold foods that children should not eat: mung beans, crabs, mussels, snails, persimmons, grapefruit, bananas, kiwis, sugar cane, watermelons, melons, bitter melons, water chestnuts, arrowheads, kelp, seaweed and raw radishes.
Precautions:
It is not advisable to eat cold drinks or frozen drinks when coughing and resolving phlegm. At this time, if the diet is too cold, it will easily lead to lung qi occlusion, and the symptoms will be aggravated for a long time.