1 Can I eat kelp when I cough? You can eat kelp when you cough. Kelp is slightly cold and non-toxic, and has the effects of softening hard mass, resolving phlegm and relieving asthma, diuresis and detumescence, removing fat and lowering blood pressure. Modern medical research has proved that kelp contains many nutritional and medicinal components beneficial to human health. Kelp is a kind of vegetable with high nutritional value and has certain medicinal value. It is rich in mineral elements such as iodine. Kelp is low in calories, moderate in protein content and rich in minerals. It is found that kelp has many biological functions, such as lowering blood fat, lowering blood sugar, regulating immunity, anticoagulation, anti-tumor, lead excretion, detoxification, anti-oxidation and so on. There is nothing wrong with eating kelp properly when coughing.

2 How to eat kelp when coughing: kelp mung bean syrup practice: 60 grams of kelp, shredded, mung bean 150 grams, with soup, add appropriate amount of brown sugar to taste.

Efficacy: It has the effects of strengthening the heart, promoting diuresis, softening and strengthening the body, eliminating phlegm and eliminating gallbladder. It is suitable for hypertension, beriberi edema, tuberculosis of cervical lymph nodes, simple goiter, summer furuncle in children, phlegm-heat cough, etc.

3 taboos for eating kelp Don't eat kelp as a staple food. You can't take kelp as the staple food for a long time, and too much iodine intake will affect your health. Moreover, kelp contains a certain amount of arsenic, and excessive intake of arsenic will cause poisoning. Therefore, before eating kelp, wash it with water and let arsenic dissolve in water.

Kelp cannot be soaked for a long time. Don't soak kelp for a long time before eating, because the soaking time is too long, the nutrients in kelp, such as water-soluble vitamins and inorganic salts, will dissolve in water, and the nutritional value will be greatly reduced. If kelp is as tough as boiled after soaking in water, it means it has gone bad and can't be eaten any more. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kelp is cold, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency are forbidden to eat.

Don't drink tea immediately after eating kelp, don't drink tea immediately after eating fruit, and don't eat sour fruit immediately, because kelp is rich in iron, both of which will hinder the absorption of iron in the body.

Special people should be careful when eating kelp. Patients with hyperthyroidism should never eat kelp, because it contains a lot of iodine, which will aggravate their condition, and pregnant women and lactating mothers should not eat more kelp. This is because iodine in kelp can enter the fetus and baby with blood circulation, causing thyroid dysfunction.