Cough is a common symptom in lung diseases, and its pathogenic reason is mainly exogenous factors. In addition, endogenous phlegm and deficiency of both qi and yin can also cause cough.
There is often a difference between exogenous cough and internal injury cough in TCM clinic. Exogenous cough includes wind-cold cough and wind-heat cough. Cough due to internal injury can be divided into phlegm-heat type, phlegm-dampness type, qi-deficiency type and yin-deficiency type. Cough in children is difficult to treat, but if it is combined with proper medicinal diet, it can promote the early recovery of cough.
(1). colds cough
Cough symptoms
Cough frequently, mainly dry cough; Or a small amount of thin white sputum, itchy throat, heavy cough, stuffy nose and runny nose, fear of cold and no sweat; Or fever, headache, etc. The tongue is reddish with thin white fur.
Appropriate diet therapy
Stemona Ginger Juice: Stemona Stemona 10g, 6 g ginger (mashed), add appropriate amount of water and decoct for 20-30 minutes, remove residue to get juice, add a little honey, and let children take it warm for several times.
Ginger-apricot soup: almond 10g (peeled and mashed after soaking), ginger 6g (peeled and mashed with salt 4g) and licorice 5g (finely ground and slightly fried), mix well together, and boil the soup with boiling water, and you can drink it.
(2) Wind-heat cough
Cough symptoms
Cough is uncomfortable or the cough sound is heavy and turbid, and the expectoration is thick and yellow, which is not easy to cough up, thirst, sore throat, runny nose, runny nose; Or accompanied by fever, headache, fear of wind, slight sweating; The tongue is red with a thin yellow coating.
Appropriate diet therapy
Mulberry almond tea: 9 grams of mulberry leaves, 9 grams of chrysanthemum and 6 grams of almonds (mashed), put them in a pot and add water to decoct, take juice, add honey 15 grams, and then take them warm.
Pear juice: pear 100g (washed, pitted and sliced), Fritillaria cirrhosa 5g (mashed) and Platycodon grandiflorum 8g, put them together in a pot, add water and decoct for about 20-30min, then add chrysanthemum 10g, cook for 5min, remove residues and take juice, add appropriate amount of crystal sugar and take it warm.
Pear juice porridge: 1 Fresh pear, chopped with skin, put in casserole, add appropriate amount of water, cook for 30 minutes, remove residue, cook with 50 grams of washed japonica rice to make porridge, and then take it warm.
(3) phlegm-heat cough
Cough symptoms
Cough phlegm is multicolored and yellow, and it is difficult to cough up with thick phlegm. Some children even have shortness of breath and squeaks in their throats. Or accompanied by fever, thirst, irritability, less urine, yellow urine and dry stool; The tongue is red with yellow fur.
Appropriate diet therapy
Boiled pork lungs with coix seed: 30g of coix seed (mashed into powder) and 1 pork lungs (washed, white in color), put in a pot and add appropriate amount of water. Cook it with high fire first, then with low fire, and you can eat it.
Winter melon soup: winter melon kernel 15g, winter melon peel 15g, Ophiopogon japonicus 15g, decocted with appropriate amount of water.
Fresh Artemisia selengensis soup: fresh Artemisia selengensis 150g, decocted in water to remove residue, and added with appropriate amount of rock sugar, and served in several times.
(4) Phlegm-dampness cough
Cough symptoms
Cough with excessive phlegm, white and thin phlegm, expectoration in throat, chest tightness, loss of appetite and drowsiness; The tongue is reddish with white fur.
Appropriate diet therapy
Fragrant radish: clean fresh radish, cut into dices, marinate with salt overnight (50 grams of salt per kilogram of radish), and dry; Mix a proper amount of ginger, orange peel, pepper, fennel and radish, then boil the vinegar and pour it into the mixture, or add a little sugar to taste. Sweet radish is delicious and can also be eaten as a dish.
Orange black tea: 1 slice of orange red and 4 ~ 5g of green tea, put them together in a cup and brew with boiling water. Children can drink it often.
(5) cough due to qi deficiency
Cough symptoms
Cough repeatedly, especially in the morning, with white and thin sputum. Children are pale, easy to sweat for no reason, afraid of cold, short of breath when breathing, too lazy to talk, speak softly, and eat without taste; The tongue is red and there are teeth marks beside it.
Appropriate diet therapy
Astragalus and Cordyceps Chicken Soup: 100g hen, washed, defatted and cut into pieces. Blanch the chicken pieces in boiling water, put them in a stew together with Astragalus membranaceus 10g, Cordyceps sinensis 5g and Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae 3g, add appropriate amount of boiling water into the stew pot, simmer for 3 hours, and serve after seasoning.
Bean paste porridge: put 500 grams of soybean milk and 50 grams of washed japonica rice into a casserole, boil it with strong fire first, then boil it with slow fire to make porridge (porridge is cooked until the surface is covered with porridge oil), and then add appropriate amount of sugar to taste, so that it can be taken warm.
(6) cough due to yin deficiency
Cough symptoms
Dry cough without phlegm, or less phlegm and sticky, difficult to cough up, thirst, dry throat, itchy throat, hoarse voice. Feel hot flashes in the afternoon, fever in hands and feet, night sweats; The tongue is red, with little moss or peeling of map-like flowers.
Appropriate diet therapy
Tremella Pear Cream: Tremella 10g (soaked and washed) and pear 100 ~ 150g (sliced without core), put them together in a pot, add appropriate amount of water and cook them together. When the tremella is soft and rotten, add 15g rock sugar, and then take it warm.
Tremella and lily adenophora decoction: tremella 10g (soaked in clear water for several hours until it swells, and then washed), lily 15g, glehnia littoralis 10g, and appropriate amount of crystal sugar, put them into a casserole, add appropriate amount of clear water, boil with strong fire, and then cook with slow fire for about 1h, and take out.
Bird's nest and American ginseng soup: bird's nest 10g (soaked in clear water to remove feather impurities), American ginseng 5g (washed and sliced), a little crystal sugar, put into a stew, add appropriate amount of boiling water, cover the stew, simmer for 3 hours, and serve after seasoning.
2. Treatment prescription for chronic cough:
1. almond porridge
Grind peeled sweet almond 10g into mud, add it into 50g of washed japonica rice, add appropriate amount of water to boil, and then boil it with slow fire. This recipe comes from a cardioscope of a doctor of medicine and should be taken in warm time, twice a day, breakfast and dinner.
2. Pears and white radish cubes
1 white radish, 1 pear, 1 white honey and a little white pepper, steam in a bowl. Take it twice a day.
3. Brown sugar, red dates and ginger juice drinks
Mix 50g of brown sugar, 50g of red dates and 15g of ginger, and add 3 bowls of water to boil. It should be taken while it is hot, three times a day.
4. Lily porridge
30 grams of lily powder (60 grams of fresh lily, dried and ground into powder) and japonica rice 100 grams were washed and boiled with water. After the porridge is cooked, add lily powder and appropriate amount of rock sugar, and then cook until the porridge is cooked. This recipe originated from Compendium of Materia Medica, and can be taken at breakfast and dinner, 1~2 times a day. Suitable for chronic bronchitis, lung heat and dry cough in the elderly.
5. Chuanbei porridge
Wash clean japonica rice 100g and add appropriate amount of sugar to cook porridge. When the porridge is almost cooked, add 5 ~ 10g of Fritillaria cirrhosa powder and boil. This recipe originated from Zi Sheng Lu, so it is advisable to take warm clothes and have breakfast and dinner twice a day. It is suitable for cough caused by tuberculosis, emphysema and bronchitis.
6. Honey lotus root powder drink
Dissolve 30 grams of lotus root starch with a little boiling water, then rinse with boiling water, let stand for a while, add 30 grams of honey and stir well. This product should be taken when it is warm, two doses a day.
Three. Formula for treating autumn dryness cough
Chinese medicine believes that autumn corresponds to the lungs, and dryness is the main qi in autumn. The evil of autumn dryness easily invades the lungs through the mouth, nose, respiratory tract or fur, affecting the function of clearing away lung heat and moistening lung, resulting in a unique dry cough in autumn. For prevention and treatment, it is advisable to take a medicated diet that nourishes yin and moistens dryness, nourishes lung and relieves cough.
Dry air in autumn is easy to cause dry cough. Dry cough is often manifested as persistent dry cough, no or little phlegm, bloodshot sputum, dry mouth, sore throat, itchy throat and hoarseness. The following dietotherapy remedies have good effects on dry cough, acute and chronic bronchitis and cough caused by cold.
1. Stewed Sydney with almond: sweet almond 15g, peeled and broken; 1 peel and slice Sydney, add 20g of crystal sugar and appropriate amount of water, and stew 1 hour. 65438+ 0 times every morning and evening, 3~5 times in a row.
2. Stewed Fritillaria cirrhosa with Sydney: 1 pear, cut horizontally, and put 6 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa powder after removing the core. Put the two halves of pears together, fix them with toothpicks, add 20 grams of rock sugar and appropriate amount of water, and stew for 30 minutes. Eat pears and drink soup,/kloc-0 times a day, 3~5 times a day.
3. Sydney white lotus root juice: Sydney peeled and pitted; Take the same amount of white lotus root, chop it up and wring the juice, which is often used for tea.
4. White honey radish juice: white radish is peeled, chopped and juiced. Take 50 ml of juice each time, add 20 ml of white honey and mix well, 1, three times a day.
5. Fritillaria sugar juice: Fritillaria cirrhosa 15g, rock sugar 20g, water 150ml, stew for 30min. Take 1 time in the morning and evening.
6. Stewed rock sugar with tremella: 5g tremella, soaked in cold boiled water 1 hour, shredded. Add 30 grams of rock sugar to stew soup and take it every night before going to bed.
7. Pear porridge: 3 pears and 50 grams of rice (porridge). The pears are boiled in water for half an hour. Take the juice and add rice porridge to eat while it is hot. Treat cough caused by lung heat.
8. Lily almond porridge: 50g of fresh lily (30g of dry product), 50g of almond10g (peeled and broken) and 50g of japonica rice, cooked together, mixed with white honey, and taken warm three times a day.
9. Scrophularia winter porridge: 30 grams of Scrophularia and Ophiopogon japonicus each, decocted in water to get juice. 50 grams of japonica rice porridge, mixed with medicinal juice and then boiled, mixed with honey to eat. Every day 1 time.
10. Sugarcane pulp porridge: 500 grams of fresh sugarcane, peeled and juiced. 50g of japonica rice porridge, 50ml of sugarcane juice, boiled and served warm.
4. The lung deficiency cough treatment prescription:
Tremella broth
[Ingredients]: tremella 10g, egg 1g, 60g of rock sugar, and proper amount of lard.
[Method]: Remove the pedicels of tremella fuciformis, remove impurities, rinse, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, then cook with slow fire until tremella fuciformis is crisp and rotten, and add crystal sugar to stir until it is dissolved. Mix egg white with a little water, put it in a pot, boil it with slow fire, add a little cooked lard and take it out of the pot.
[Usage]: Take it in the morning or before going to bed.
【 Usage 】: Moisten lung, replenish qi, nourish yin and tonify kidney. It is suitable for AIDS patients with cough due to lung deficiency, hot flashes in the afternoon, night sweats and irritability, palpitation and insomnia and chronic loose stool.
[Comment]: Polysaccharides contained in tremella can improve the immune function of AIDS patients; Egg white, rock sugar and lard are mixed together to adjust the taste. This medicated diet looks pure and clean, has attractive color and fragrance, tastes sweet and soft, and melts in the mouth. It is a traditional health-care medicated diet.
Attachment: Other relevant diet prescriptions
1. treatment of cough and hemoptysis due to lung deficiency: pig pancreas 1 tablet, cooked and dipped in coix seed powder, and taken on an empty stomach. Every day 1 time for 7 days.
2, pig lung porridge: a pig lung, washed and sliced, fried with sesame oil, put in a pot, add 100 grams of glutinous rice to cook porridge. Treat cough due to lung deficiency.
3, 500 grams of maltose, about 70 red dates, the same soup, cook until the red dates are cooked. Has effect in nourishing yin, moisten lung, invigorating spleen and tonifying deficiency. Suitable for cough due to lung deficiency, pallor, dizziness due to blood deficiency, etc.
4. 40g of Coix seed, 40g of yam, 40g of lotus seed and 40g of jujube, 20g of lily, adenophora adenophora, 20g of spiny stone and Polygonatum odoratum, boiled with * * *, added with sugar, and even taken with dregs, which is a refreshing tonic for people who are not affected by warm fire in hot summer. The name is "Sweet and Cool". Has effect in invigorating spleen, relieve diarrhea, nourishing yin, moistening lung, relieving restlessness and tranquilize mind, and is suitable for cough due to lung deficiency, persistent diarrhea, body weakness, excessive sweating, dry mouth, night sleep, MUBI, nocturnal emission in men, and leukorrhagia in women.
5. Prescription for the treatment of cough in the elderly (optional)
(1) Tremella and orange soup: 100 grams of tremella take clean water, 200 grams of canned oranges in sugar water, and appropriate amount of sugar. Wash the tremella first, add some water and cook it thoroughly with slow fire. When stewing on high fire, add sugar and water. When the tremella is soft, add canned orange petals, cook them slightly and eat them as snacks. Has the effects of invigorating qi and kidney, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. It is suitable for cough due to lung heat, dry cough due to lung dryness, blood in phlegm, etc.
⑵ Apple and Sydney soup: Take apple 1 piece, Sydney 1 piece, 3 grams of dried tangerine peel, 30 grams of sugar and appropriate amount of starch. Peel and core apples and pears, cut them into dices, wash and chop dried tangerine peel, put them in a pot together, add appropriate amount of water, cook until rotten, add white sugar and wet starch to thicken them, and serve with meals. Has the effects of invigorating middle warmer, invigorating qi, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm. Suitable for people with cough and phlegm.
⑶ Lily Er Shen Decoction: Take Lily 15g, Tremella 12g, Pseudostellaria heterophylla 15g, and appropriate amount of crystal sugar. First, soak tremella in clear water, remove impurities, wash it, put it in a casserole with washed lily and Pseudostellaria heterophylla, add appropriate amount of water, boil it with strong fire, then stew it with slow fire until the silver is cooked, and add rock sugar to taste it. Take it twice a day 1 dose. Has the effects of nourishing yin and benefiting qi. It is suitable for cough, shortness of breath and dry mouth caused by deficiency of lung, stomach, qi and yin.
⑷ Honey and egg soup: Take 35g honey and egg 1 piece. First, add 300 ml of water to honey and boil it. Beat in the eggs and bring to a boil. Take it suddenly, and take it on an empty stomach in the morning and evening. It has the effect of moistening lung and relieving cough. Suitable for lung dryness, dry cough and chronic cough.
5] Carrot and jujube soup: Take carrot 120g and jujube 40g. First, wash the red dates, soak them for 2 hours, wash the carrots, put them in a casserole with the red dates, add water and cook for about 1 hour. Take 1 dose daily, twice a day in the morning and evening. Has the effects of nourishing yin and benefiting qi, benefiting qi and relieving cough. It is suitable for choking cough, dry mouth and spontaneous sweating, mental fatigue and other symptoms caused by deficiency of both qi and yin and lung qi upwelling.
[6] Lily egg soup: take 60 grams of lily and 2 eggs. First, wash the lily, put it in the pot with the washed eggs, add appropriate amount of water, cook until the eggs are cooked, remove the eggshells, take 1 dose every day, drink soup, eat eggs and lily. Has the effects of tonifying lung and nourishing. Suitable for chronic cough due to lung deficiency.
(7) Duck soup with Radix Glehniae and Lily: take 30g of Radix Glehniae, 30g of lily and fat duck 150g. Wash radix glehniae, lily and duck separately, put them into the pot together, and add appropriate amount of water. Cook with strong fire first, then stew with slow fire until the duck is cooked and rotten, and eat the duck with soup. Has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening lung, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm. It is suitable for cough and expectoration, dry mouth and throat, tuberculosis cough caused by lung heat and yin deficiency.
(8) Lily Loquat Soup: Take 30 grams of fresh lily, 30 grams of fresh loquat, 30 grams of fresh lotus root, appropriate amount of starch and sugar, and a little osmanthus. First, slice the fresh lotus root, put it in a pot with lily and loquat, and boil it in water. After cooking, add appropriate amount of starch and mix well to make soup. Add some sugar and osmanthus when eating, and eat at any time. Has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening lung, clearing away heat and relieving cough. It is suitable for dry cough caused by lung injury caused by dry heat, lung yin deficiency and chest obstruction caused by deficiency heat.
6. A prescription for treating lung cancer and cough
1. Erguotou Zhu Fei Soup
[Raw materials] Siraitia grosvenorii 15g, fig 50g, pig lung 1g, bitter almond 10g.
【 Method 】 First, pick out bitter almond, wash it, soak it in warm water, peel off the tip, and put it in a bowl with soaking solution for later use. Selecting Fructus Siraitiae Grosvenorii and Fructus Fici respectively, cleaning, air drying or sun drying, and slicing. Rinse pig lung with clear water 1 hour, remove impurities, cut into pieces, squeeze out water, put it into a casserole, add enough clear water (depending on the degree of immersion of lung slices), boil with strong fire, skim off floating foam, cook wine, add almonds, and simmer with low fire 1 hour. When the pig lungs are ripe, add Siraitia grosvenorii and fig slices and continue to use them.
[How to eat] Take it once in the morning and evening, or twice. It is advisable to eat light food, pig lungs, chew Siraitia grosvenorii and fig slices and drink soup.
【 Efficacy 】 Nourishing yin and clearing lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. This dietotherapy prescription is suitable for lung cancer patients with yin deficiency and dry cough.
[Opinion] Siraitia grosvenorii, also known as "longevity fruit", is a rare specialty in China. Because of its special effects of clearing lung-heat, relieving cough, preventing cancer and resisting aging, it has attracted great attention of medical experts at home and abroad. Some scholars have reported that in the clinical practice of preventing and treating tumors in traditional Chinese medicine, Siraitia grosvenorii is boiled into tea for one day 1, which has achieved good effects in clearing away lung heat, relieving cough, moistening lung, resolving phlegm, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, and relieving sore throat and opening sound in the treatment of lung cancer, laryngeal cancer and nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The water extract of Ficus carica dried fruit treated with activated carbon and acetone has anti-Ehrlich sarcoma effect. Foreign scientists believe that fig contains an anticancer factor, which can prevent the formation of early cancer. The above two flavors, together with almond and pig lung, not only have the effects of nourishing yin, clearing lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm for lung cancer patients with yin deficiency and dry cough, but also can enhance the body's anti-cancer ability and effectively curb cancer, so it is suitable to be taken frequently during illness.
2. stewed Sydney with houttuynia cordata
[Ingredients] Houttuynia cordata 100g, Sydney 250g, and proper amount of sugar.
【 Method 】 First, clean the fresh Sydney, dry it, and cut the skin into small pieces. Pear stones can be discarded for later use. Remove impurities from Herba Houttuyniae, clean, air-dry, cut into small pieces, put in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil, fry with low fire for 30 minutes, filter with gauze, remove residues, take filtrate, put in a casserole, add raw pear pieces, add appropriate amount of water if necessary, add white sugar, and simmer with low fire until the pear pieces are completely crisp and rotten, and serve.
[How to eat] Take it twice in the morning and evening, eat pears and drink soup.
【 Efficacy 】 Clearing lung and relieving cough, resolving phlegm and clearing heat. This dietotherapy prescription is suitable for patients with lung cancer, especially those with excessive phlegm and thick pus.
[Opinion] Houttuynia cordata Thunb. It is pungent and cool, and is good at clearing away heat and toxic materials, diuresis and detumescence. It is a Chinese herbal medicine with remarkable curative effect, especially for clearing lung heat. Clinically, it is often used to treat Huang Zhi's disease with phlegm-heat blocking the lung and persistent phlegm cough. Because it can detoxify and eliminate carbuncle, it is also an important drug for treating lung carbuncle. Modern pharmacological research has proved that Houttuynia cordata Thunb has anti-phage effect through phage test, suggesting that it has anti-cancer activity. Sydney is cool, sweet and slightly sour. It has the effects of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, and is good at treating fever, body fluid injury, phlegm-heat cough and other diseases. Ancient doctors in China praised: "Those who have cold and heat in their chests can eat more raw pears." The combination of the above two drugs can not only moisten the lung, cool the heart, reduce phlegm and reduce fire, but also has better cancer suppression and prevention effect, especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly lung cancer patients with excessive heat and thick yellow phlegm, and has obvious auxiliary treatment effect.
3. Almond, horseshoe and lotus root starch soup
[Ingredients] Bitter almond 15g, water chestnut 50g, lotus root starch 50g, rock sugar 15g.
【 Method 】 First, the bitter almond was picked out, soaked in warm water, peeled off the tip, and put in a bowl with the soaking solution for later use. Wash the water chestnut, remove the head and roots of the water chestnut, wash it with warm water, and chop the skin into water chestnut paste for later use. Put the wok on the fire, add appropriate amount of water, add almond soaking solution, decoct for 30 minutes, filter to get juice, put it into the wok with horseshoe paste, mix well, simmer with low fire until boiling, add the mixed wet lotus root starch and rock sugar (crushed), and stir while simmering to make soup.
[How to eat] Take it twice in the morning and evening.
【 Efficacy 】 Clearing lung, relieving cough, resolving phlegm and resisting cancer. This dietotherapy prescription is suitable for lung cancer with phlegm-heat cough.
[Comment] Bitter almond is good at resolving phlegm and relieving cough, relieving asthma and moistening intestines, which is an important drug for treating phlegm-heat cough in clinic. According to the in vitro experiment of modern medicine, the inhibition rate of almond hot water extract crude preparation on human cervical cancer JTC26 strain can be as high as 70%. Japanese scholars believe that bitter almond can inhibit sarcoma 180 in mice. Water chestnut tastes sweet and cold, and it is good at clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, resolving food stagnation and tonifying lung. Compatible with bitter almond and cooked with lotus root starch, it has nourishing and hemostatic effects. It is especially suitable for lung cancer patients with phlegm-heat cough, which can not only enhance the anti-cancer effect, but also clear away lung-heat, relieve cough, promote digestion and eliminate phlegm, and play a better auxiliary treatment role.
4. Olive radish drink
[raw materials] 400g of green olive and 0/000g of white radish/kloc.
【 Method 】 First, green olives were picked, washed and put into a bowl for later use. Soak the white radish in clear water for a while, wash its skin repeatedly, remove its pedicel and roots, peel, slice or cut into strips, put it in a casserole with washed olives, add enough water, cook for 40 minutes with low fire, add a little salt and mix well.
[How to eat] As a drink, take it at will, or take it in batches and finish it the same day. When eating, eat radish, drink soup, chew olives and chew slowly.
【 Efficacy 】 Clearing lung and resolving phlegm. This dietotherapy prescription is suitable for lung cancer with phlegm-heat cough.
[Comment] Olive, also known as "Green Fruit", is a unique and precious fruit in China and has the reputation of "China Olive". China has used olives as medicine since ancient times. Its sweet and sour nature, flat nature, specializes in clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving sore throat and resolving phlegm, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, stimulating appetite and reducing qi. Modern medical research has found that olive has a certain anti-cancer effect; In clinical application, olive has a good therapeutic effect on symptoms such as dry mouth, sore throat, hoarseness, cough and hemoptysis after lung cancer treatment. White radish is sweet and cool, and has the functions of resolving phlegm and clearing away heat, resolving stagnation and detoxifying, soothing the middle energizer and lowering qi. Modern medical research shows that white radish has anti-cancer effect. In the application of clinical medicated diet therapy, it is also observed that all kinds of dishes cooked with radish, if eaten regularly, do have anticancer effects. Olive white radish decoction has more obvious effect of clearing away lung heat and resolving phlegm, and its effect is mild and lasting, especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly lung cancer patients and their symptoms such as phlegm-heat cough and phlegm-blood stasis after treatment.
Choosing Chinese medicine diet prescription is not the only way to treat diseases. Dietary prescriptions for cough must be taken under the guidance of an experienced pharmacist.
Wish you good health.