Cough is a common symptom of colds. People do not choose to seek medical treatment when they have a slight cough. If you have frequent coughs and chronic bronchitis, you can use Defu Qinyan tea to relieve coughs and moisturize the lungs. It can also be managed through dietary therapy. It is true that many foods have good health effects, but if you eat the wrong ones, they can aggravate your condition!

1. What should not be eaten during a cough?

1. Cold foods

It is not advisable to eat cold drinks or frozen drinks when coughing. At this time, if the food is too cold, it will easily cause lung qi to be blocked, and the symptoms will be aggravated and not healed over time.

2. Fatty, sweet and thick-flavored foods

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coughs are mostly caused by lung heat. Fried foods can increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, promote dampness and heat, breed phlegm, and make Cough is difficult to cure.

3. Fishy shrimps and crabs

Coughing worsens after eating fishy foods. This is related to the fishy smell irritating the respiratory tract and allergy to the protein in fish and shrimp foods. People who are allergic to certain fish and eggs should pay more attention. Among them, silver carp and hairtail are the most affected.

4. Sweet and sour food

Sour food often agglomerates phlegm, making it difficult to cough up the phlegm, aggravating the condition and making it difficult to heal the cough. It is not advisable to eat apples, bananas, oranges, grapes, etc. when the cough is severe. Eating sweets will also increase the heat and make the inflammation difficult to cure.

5. Oranges

Many people think that oranges can relieve coughs and reduce phlegm, so people with coughs are advised to eat more oranges. In fact, orange peel does have the effect of relieving cough and reducing phlegm, but orange flesh actually produces heat and phlegm.

7. Spicy food

Many people still cough for a long time after getting over a cold. The reason is actually that they don’t take care of their mouths. They feel better and can’t help but go to delicious drinks. Spicy. During a cold, the body temperature will rise and the body's metabolism will also increase. At this time, you should avoid eating any spicy food. If spicy food triggers bacterial infection and invades the tracheal mucosa, bronchitis will form. At this time, the cough will intensify, forming sticky phlegm, and the cough will become protracted and unhealed.

2. What can you eat to relieve cough?

1. Plain water: When you find a slight cough, you can drink more cold water to relieve cough symptoms. This is because plain water can replenish moisture in the throat, thereby reducing cough symptoms.

2. Drink salt water: Drinking salt water has a good effect on relieving coughs caused by bronchitis, pharyngitis and respiratory infections, and can play a preventive role.

3. Brown sugar ginger tea: To make ginger soup, put two slices of fresh ginger into 500 ml of cold water. After boiling, add a spoonful of brown sugar. This tea has the effect of warming and dispersing cold, while brown sugar It has the effect of warming and neutralizing the stomach. This method is suitable for coughs caused by colds