Chinese medicine has long recognized that food can not only nourish, but also cure diseases. For example, Zhang Xichun, a modern medical scientist, once pointed out in Medical Care in the West that food "can cure diseases and satisfy hunger". Today, let's see what fruit we can eat with a cough. People with long-term cough or excessive phlegm can eat some pears. Those who are in the early stage of the disease or cough for a long time and have a lot of phlegm can eat some pears. "Compendium of Materia Medica" once recorded that pears can "moisten the lungs and cool the heart, reduce phlegm and reduce fire". This is because pears contain glycosides, tannic acid and other ingredients. Steamed pears are best eaten with Fritillaria cirrhosa and rock sugar.

In addition, you can also eat loquat, because loquat contains amygdalin, which can relieve cough and resolve phlegm. The loquat sauce made from loquat fruit also has the functions of cooling and annealing, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. Inflammatory cough, you might as well eat some oranges. If cough is accompanied by sore throat, it belongs to inflammatory cough, you may as well eat some oranges. Oranges contain volatile oil, limonene and so on. It can promote the secretion of respiratory mucosa, effectively relieve bronchospasm, and has the functions of eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. Moreover, the orange peel in oranges contains vitamin P, which has anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects.

When cough is accompanied by asthma, or dry cough without phlegm, you can eat apricots. Apricot contains amygdalin, which has the functions of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, warming lung and dispelling cold. People with hot constitution should eat more cold fruits. People with hot constitution should eat more cold fruits, such as cantaloupe, watermelon, pear, banana, mango, persimmon and grapefruit. Because there are many reasons for cough, and the severity is also different, so we can't rely entirely on fruit to cure "cough", but also need symptomatic treatment.

People with deficiency and cold constitution can choose warm fruits. Although everyone has different reasons for coughing, there are differences between cold and heat, such as cold cough, hot cough, dry cough and chronic cough. Eating fruits should distinguish between hot and cold: people with insufficient cold constitution can choose warm fruits, such as litchi, longan, pomegranate and orange. Eating fruit can reduce phlegm and relieve cough, which has a certain effect on relieving cough. But if you want to cure cough completely, you still need to take medicine and pay attention to the patient's diet.