Exogenous cough
First, wind-cold syndrome (wind-cold cough)
Main manifestations: cough with thin phlegm, nasal congestion and runny nose, headache, aversion to cold and fever, anhidrosis, thin and white tongue coating, and floating or tight pulse.
Principles of dietotherapy: dispelling wind and cold, dispersing lung and relieving cough.
Therapeutic food
1. Ginger and apricot porridge: Ginger, sweet almonds and japonica rice are cooked together. Used for mild cough caused by wind-cold.
2. Scallion and dried tangerine peel soup: Boil scallion, dried tangerine peel and brown sugar together to make soup for colds, coughs and phlegm.
Diet should be taboo: not cold, not greasy, not sticky, not pickled, not sour, so as not to love evil.
Internal injury cough
First, phlegm-dampness cough
The main manifestations are: cough with excessive phlegm, thick and white phlegm, severe cough in the morning or after meals, excessive phlegm, chest tightness, anorexia, drowsiness, white and greasy tongue coating and slippery pulse.
Principle of dietotherapy: invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
Dietetic diet
1. orange peel porridge: orange peel and japonica rice are used to cook porridge, which is used for phlegm-dampness cough, chest tightness and fullness, and eating less is stupid.
2. Amomum villosum and radish powder: Amomum villosum and radish are grinded together and taken orally, which is used for wet phlegm and cough, nausea and vomiting, abdominal distension and tightness.
Diet should be taboo: it should be light diet to protect the spleen and stomach; It is not advisable to eat fatty, greasy and sticky food, so as not to hinder the spleen and help damp and produce phlegm.
Second, phlegm-heat cough
The main manifestations are: severe cough, thick yellow sputum, uncomfortable cough or coughing up blood and phlegm, shortness of breath, chest pain caused by cough, body heat and thirst, yellow urine, red tongue, yellow and greasy fur, and slippery pulse.
Principle of dietotherapy: clearing heat and dispersing lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
diet
1. Tang Xue: Jellyfish and Eleocharis tuberosa cook soup together for phlegm-heat cough and constipation.
2. Siraitia grosvenorii stew: Siraitia grosvenorii, pork and rock sugar are stewed together for phlegm and cough.