Hot cough: cough is crisp, phlegm is yellow or thick and sticky, and it is difficult to cough up. The throat is dry and painful, often accompanied by bad wind, body heat, whole body pain, runny nose, yellow nose and other symptoms.
Step 3 treat
Cold cough: mainly dispersing cold, dispersing lung and relieving cough.
Hot cough: mainly dispersing wind and clearing heat, dispersing lung and relieving cough.
4. Daily precautions
Cold cough
◆ Pay attention to rest, staying up late for a long time will lead to decreased immunity, and it is easy to cause colds and coughs when the weather is cold.
Take timely treatment measures to prevent wind-cold cough caused by aggravation of wind-cold cold.
◆ astringent antitussive drugs cannot be used in the early stage of wind-cold cough. If misused, it can lead to stagnation of lung qi, and exogenous pathogens cannot reach the outside, but it will cause chronic cough, which will be difficult to heal for a long time.
◆ Cold cough should avoid spicy, greasy and cold food, so as not to hinder the function of spleen and stomach transport and aggravate cough.
Hot cough
◆ Pay attention to climate change, and pay attention to controlling the temperature when blowing air conditioners in summer to avoid catching cold.
◆ Eat a light diet, eat less fat, sweet, spicy and stimulating things and drink alcohol, so as not to hurt yin, turn dryness into heat.
◆ Those who have too much phlegm will try their best to expel phlegm, and they can turn over and pat their backs to help expel phlegm.
Take part in physical exercise properly to enhance physical fitness and improve disease resistance.
5. Cough-relieving medicated diet
Cold cough
Ginger and onion porridge: 20 grams of ginger and scallion respectively, and 0/50 grams of japonica rice/kloc. Cook porridge with rice, add ginger and scallion when it is cooked, cook it slightly, and eat it while it is hot, which has the effect of dispersing cold and relieving exterior syndrome.
Cabbage root: 300 grams of cabbage root, 3 slices of ginger and 60 grams of brown sugar. Washing vegetable roots and cooking them with ginger and sugar can detoxify and dispel wind-cold, and can treat aversion to cold, fever, headache, anhidrosis and nausea caused by exogenous wind-cold evil.
Hot cough
Pear juice: pear100g, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae 5g, and Platycodon grandiflorum 8g, put them into the pot together, decoct in water for about10min, then add chrysanthemum10g, cook for 5min, remove the dregs to get juice, and add a proper amount of crystal sugar, then take it warm.
Mulberry and almond tea: 9 grams of mulberry leaves, 9 grams of chrysanthemum and 6 grams of almonds, all of which are decocted in water, and the juice is taken, and honey 15 grams is added, so that it can be taken warm.