Recently, many friends asked me, saying: since autumn, my family has always had a sore throat, itchy throat and started coughing, especially for the elderly and children. Cough in the morning, cough in the middle of the night, itchy throat. Sometimes I feel that I can't cough up phlegm, which is dry and painful. What should I do?
It is easy to cough in autumn, which is likely to be "dryness invading the lungs" in autumn. The lung is arrogant and dirty, and dry air invades the lung in autumn, which is easy to cause cough. This seasonal symptom has been affirmed and valued by many doctors since ancient times.
For example, Yu, a famous doctor in Qing Dynasty, once said that "autumn hurts dryness", and Ye, a febrile disease scientist in Qing Dynasty, also said: "dryness starts from the lungs and makes people cough." So in autumn, the number of patients with cough in hospitals and clinics suddenly increased. ...
Taoist doctors have a saying: warm pathogens attack the lungs first. Therefore, once the six evils (wind, cold, summer, dampness, dryness and fire) invade the human body, the lungs bear the brunt.
According to the principles of Taoist doctor's "harmony between man and nature" and "philosophy of five elements", the five elements in autumn correspond to gold, and the five elements in human lungs also correspond to gold. In autumn, dryness is easy to hurt the lungs, and the lungs are "scorched", which closes the fur and controls breathing. When exogenous pathogens invade the human body, it is easy to attack the lungs and cough, whether it is inhaled from the nose and mouth or through the skin.
In the alternate season of dry weather and dry things, more and more people cough around them. Many times a bad cough will affect work and life more or less. I would like to share with you a few simple and easy ways to deal with autumn cough, which is worth collecting.
1, distinguish between cold and heat and dry cough, and get better quickly and completely.
There are many prescriptions for relieving cough, but syndrome differentiation is the key to divide cough into cold, heat and dryness. To put it simply, cold should dispel cold, that is, dryness should nourish yin and heat should dissipate heat.
1, cold and cough
The temperature drops in the morning and evening in autumn. If people still blow the air conditioner violently, it is easy to cause colds and colds, which will lead to colds and coughs. The physical manifestations of cold and cough are: runny nose, cold hands and feet, slight fear of cold and wind, light tongue coating, light tongue quality and no obvious sore throat.
It is the key to dispel cold in time when coughing due to exogenous cold. I recommend a delicious and effective diet remedy for all ages-baked orange. The outermost layer of orange peel is called orange peel in Taoist doctors, which is pungent, bitter and warm. Enter the lung meridian and spleen meridian. It can dispel cold, dry dampness, benefit qi and resolve phlegm. Used for cough due to wind-cold, itchy throat and excessive phlegm.
Recommended dietotherapy method: wash oranges and then bake them on the stove with chopsticks; In the process of baking, turn the oranges constantly to make each side heated evenly; When the oranges are all black, you can turn off the fire; When you heat an orange, you can peel the orange and eat its flesh.
2, dry cough
Autumn is a season full of dryness, which is easy to damage body fluids. The typical symptoms of cough caused by dryness are: dry throat, dry expectoration, chapped mouth and lips, dry stool, and easy fever in hands and feet.
In the early stage of this kind of cough, you can eat more foods that moisten the lungs and remove dryness, and you can nourish the lungs, such as mulberry leaves, Polygonatum odoratum, lilies, almonds and pears. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Pears, the living clear the heat of the six fu organs, and the ripe ones nourish the yin of the five internal organs. It is suggested that you can eat rock sugar stewed Sydney, which can quench thirst, relieve cough and phlegm, clear away heat and reduce fire, and moisten lung dryness.
Recommended diet: cut the whole pear into pieces, add water and rock sugar and cook together. After the fire boils, simmer for 5 to 10 minutes. You can eat soup and pear meat together when eating.
3, wind-heat cough
Autumn is hot and dry, and everyone is prone to cough because of excessive internal heat or wind-heat cold. Physical manifestations of heat cough: dry stool, fever in hands and feet, stuffy nose, yellow greasy tongue coating and yellow phlegm.
At this time, heat and lung fire should be removed appropriately. Su Wen Zhi Zhen Da Lun said: "Those who are hot are cold" recommend everyone to eat stewed pears with Chuanbei. Fritillaria cirrhosa is cool and sweet. Entering the lung meridian and stomach meridian has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, resolving phlegm and relieving asthma, and clearing heat and resolving phlegm. Compatible with pears, it is better to moisten dryness and clear heat.
Recommended dietotherapy method: use about 3g of Fritillaria cirrhosa powder, cut the upper end of a Pak Lei at the same time, remove the pear core, put the Fritillaria cirrhosa powder in, then cover it, put the pear in a bowl, add a proper amount of water into the bowl, and then put it in a steamer to start steaming for about 30 minutes; Finally, take out the bowl to warm it, eat pears and drink soup.
Judging from the two dietary remedies mentioned above, it is worth noting that both pear soup and Chuanbei stewed pear have blind eating of pears.
Pear is one of the most common fruits in the world in daily life. Pear has been regarded as the "Sect of Hundred Fruits" since ancient times, which can relieve cough and phlegm, clear away heat and reduce fire, and is a good diet for autumn dry cough. If you don't have time to stew dietotherapy remedies or think the steps are too troublesome, I'll introduce you to a platycodon grandiflorum pear flower soup.
According to pear's characteristics of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, it can not only clear away heat and relieve sore throat, but also moisten lung, nourish yin and resolve phlegm. You can keep it at home in autumn.
2, relieve cough, press more.
Yuji point is a special point on lung meridian-Xing point, and it is also an important point to strengthen lung health. This acupoint has the function of clearing heat, and has the best effect on relieving hot cough and dry cough caused by autumn dryness. At the same time, it is also called "life-saving point", which can introduce the lung meridian into the body through water and expel the qi from the lung meridian. It can be said that rubbing fish holes every day has many benefits.
Specific practice: Fishbone point is the bone margin point, and the first metacarpal bone can be used as a marker to find the point. Open your palm and stroke down along the outer edge of the first metacarpal bone to find a depression, which is the thenar point. When pressing the fishbone point, you need a pointer. You can press the fishbone point with your opposite thumb.
3, daily tonic: based on the principle of adopting yin in autumn, nourishing yin and moistening the lungs.
After beginning of autumn, the yang gradually closed, the yin gradually flourished, and the climate changed from hot to cold. Autumn is a transitional period of yin and yang metabolism, and human life activities should adopt Yin Qi as the principle.
"Su Wen On the Method of Dirty Qi" says: The lungs converge, eating acid in a hurry to collect it, supplementing it with acid, and pungent diarrhea. Sour taste will converge lung qi, while pungent taste will disperse and purge lung, so we should try to eat less irritating foods such as onion and ginger, and eat more sour vegetables, foods and foods that nourish yin and moisten lung, such as lily, lotus root, radish, yam, tremella, grapefruit and apple.