1, usually need to avoid spicy, avoid alcohol and tobacco, especially smoking, to avoid long-term stimulation.
2, if it is dry cough without phlegm, thin white fur, you can eat some acidic food or medicine, Chinese medicine such as Schisandra chinensis and Astragalus membranaceus soaked in water to drink, because of acidic convergence, can play an appropriate role in suppressing lung qi and relieving cough. If you cough without phlegm and the fur turns yellow, you can add some Chinese patent medicines such as fresh bamboo juice and bamboo shavings to eat.
3. If you cough with phlegm, you'd better go to the hospital to check your chest X-ray to rule out the possibility of pneumonia and bronchitis. If you don't find any problems in your lungs, you can eat some Chinese patent medicines such as honey-refined Chuanbei loquat cream and licorice mixture (except for diabetics). If cough symptoms recur, it is suggested that you can drink some Zhi Yuan Tang Gan Bei Cao tea in your diet at ordinary times, which has the effects of invigorating middle qi, clearing lung heat and dispersing exterior cold.
Spicy things such as pepper, mustard, pepper and strong liquor can directly stimulate the respiratory mucosa, leading to congestion, edema and even spasm of bronchial smooth muscle, which makes cough and asthma worse. Eat less of these.
Friends with cough and phlegm can also try the following dietotherapy methods:
1, ginger+brown sugar+garlic: Drinking warm ginger and brown sugar water has a good therapeutic effect. If you are accompanied by cough at the same time, you can add 2-3 cloves of garlic heads to the ginger and brown sugar water and cook them together. It takes 10 minutes to boil off the spicy taste of garlic, so that it tastes better.
2. Steam garlic water: take 2-3 cloves of garlic, smash them, put them into a bowl, add half a bowl of water, add a crystal sugar, put a lid on the bowl, steam them in a pot, and steam them on low heat for 15 minutes. When the garlic water in the bowl is no longer hot, drink it when it is warm. Garlic can be eaten without eating, usually 2-3 times a day, with a small bowl at a time.
There are still many diets that need attention in daily life:
1, choice of staple food and beans: liquid diets such as rice porridge, millet porridge, cornmeal porridge, rice soup, rotten noodles, mung beans, japonica rice, lotus root paste, almond paste and bean products.
2, the choice of meat and egg milk milk and dairy products, egg custard, sheep liver, pig kidney and so on.
3, the choice of vegetables leaves and stems can be Chinese cabbage, Chinese cabbage, amaranth, coriander; The rhizome can be selected from carrot, ginger and potato; Melon and eggplant can be selected from wax gourd, cucumber, bitter gourd, tomato, etc. All kinds of mushrooms, green onions, garlic.
4, the choice of fruit apples, pears, oranges, watermelons, water chestnuts, sugar cane and other juicy fresh fruits.