Pear is cool, sweet, can clear away heat and resolve phlegm, and is suitable for people with hot cough. People often peel pears, take them out, add Fritillaria powder 1 ~ 3g and stew them twice a day, each time 1 pear. Or choose the method of the late famous doctor Pu Fuzhou, use 3 ~ 5g of Chinese traditional medicine Ephedra, mash or mash it, and then put it into the pear heart to steam cooked food.

tofu

Tofu has the effect of clearing away heat and moistening dryness. "Outline of Medical Forest" says: "Tofu can clear away heat, relieve cough and resolve phlegm." Any cough that belongs to wind-heat or lung-heat is especially suitable. You can also choose 1 piece of bean curd skin and a proper amount of rock sugar, which can be eaten after being cooked with water, and also has a therapeutic effect on lung heat cough.

persimmon

Persimmon is cold, which can clear away heat, reduce phlegm and relieve cough. People with hot cough should eat it. Modern pharmacological experiments show that persimmon does have expectorant and antitussive effects, and the expectorant effect is stronger than antitussive effect.

loquat

Loquat is cool and sweet, which can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. "southern Yunnan materia medica" says: "loquat cures cough and vomiting." It is suitable for people who cough with yellow pus and phlegm due to heat.

water chestnut

Can eliminate phlegm and clear heat, and is especially suitable for patients with heat cough and expectoration. 250g of fresh water chestnut can be used each time, washed and peeled, scalded with boiling water, eaten raw, morning and evening 1 time, for 3~5 days.

loofah

Good at clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, especially for those who cough with excessive phlegm and yellow and thick phlegm. This is because the plant mucus of Luffa contains a saponin, which has the function of eliminating phlegm. Cough caused by lung heat or wind heat often spits pus and phlegm. It is better to take loofah in soup and tofu in burning, which is beneficial to resolving phlegm and speeding up diaphragm.