Ma Yueling teaches you what to do if you cough after catching a cold.

Exogenous cough can be divided into wind-cold cough and wind-heat cough. Different types of cough drugs are completely different, so the methods of diet therapy are also different. The main way to distinguish them is to observe the tongue coating. If the tongue coating is white, just like the snow in winter, it means that the body is cold and heavy, the cough phlegm is thin and white, and it is also stuffy and runny. At this time, you should eat some food that warms up phlegm and relieves cough. If the tongue coating is yellow and the tongue is red, it means that the internal heat is strong, the expectoration is yellow and thick, it is not easy to cough up, and there is sore throat. At this time, you should eat some foods that clear lung, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.

Another kind of cough is chronic or recurrent. At this time, we should pay attention to eating some foods that regulate the spleen and stomach and tonify the kidney and lungs. As long as it is a cough that is aggravated at night, or does not cough during the day, it is mostly cold cough and virtual cough; As long as it is a deep cough, most of it is a virtual cough, and it is also a food for dispelling cold, enriching blood and tonifying kidney. The specific method is as follows:

colds cough

1. Ginger, brown sugar, garlic: When you have a cold, drinking warm ginger and brown sugar can play a very good therapeutic role. If you have a cough, you can cook it with 3 ~ 5 slices of ginger, 2 slices of children1~, 7 ~ 10 petals of garlic, 2 ~ 3 petals of children and half a spoonful of brown sugar.

2. Steaming garlic water: take 7 ~ 10 cloves of garlic and 3 ~ 5 cloves of children, mash them, put them in a bowl, add half a bowl of water, put a crystal sugar in the bowl, cover the bowl, put them in a pot, and steam them on low fire for 15 minutes after boiling. When the garlic water in the bowl is no longer hot, drink it while it is hot. You can skip eating garlic, 2 ~ 3 times a day, half a bowl each time. Garlic is warm and enters the spleen and stomach and lung meridians. It is very effective in treating cold cough and kidney deficiency cough, and it is convenient and simple.

3. Jiang Mo scrambled eggs with sesame oil: put a spoonful of sesame oil in a wok, heat the oil, put it in Jiang Mo, soak it in the oil for a while, then pour in 1 egg and stir well. Eat it before going to bed, once a night, and keep eating for a few days, and you will see obvious results.

4. Pear, pepper and crystal sugar: Wash pear 1 piece, cut it horizontally by the handle, dig out the core in the middle, add 20 pepper and 2 crystal sugar, put the top half of the pear together, put it in a bowl, and steam it on the pot for about half an hour. Adults can eat once and children can eat twice. Steamed prickly ash and rock sugar pears have a very obvious effect on treating cold and cough.

The above is the prescription for treating cough due to wind-cold. While using these methods to treat diseases, try not to eat all kinds of cold food, drink more water and pay attention to rest.

cough due to wind-heat evil

1. Steamed pear, crystal sugar, Fritillaria. Wash 1 pear, cut it horizontally with a handle, dig out the stone in the middle, add 2-3 crystal sugar, break it into 10 Fritillaria (5-6 children), then put the pears together, or tie them tightly with a toothpick and put them in a bowl, and steam them in a pot for about 30 minutes. Adults can eat it once, and children can eat it twice, which will moisten the lungs.

2. Boil radish water. Wash the white radish, cut it into 8 ~ 10 pieces (3 ~ 5 pieces for children), put it in a small pot, add half a bowl of water, boil it, then simmer for 5 minutes, and drink it when the water is not hot, 1 ~ 2 times a day 1 time.

3. Baked oranges. Bake the orange directly on a small fire and turn it constantly until the orange is steaming and the orange peel is black. After a little cooling, peel off the peel and eat the warm orange petals. Adults can take 1 at a time, and children can take 2 ~ 3 capsules at a time.

4. Other foods with wind-heat cough.

① cold, can clear away heat, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, but you can only eat 1 ~ 2 at a time, and you will feel uncomfortable if you eat too much.

Watermelon, cold in nature, can cure all fevers, but it is suitable for eating in summer.

3 loquat, cool in nature, can moisten the lungs, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, and is suitable for people who spit yellow pus and phlegm.

④ Water chestnut, cold in nature, peeled by 4 ~ 6 adults (2 ~ 3 children), sliced, put in a pot, add a bowl of water, and simmer for 5 minutes. Drinking water chestnut can resolve phlegm and clear heat, which is good for people who spit and spit.

In addition, it can also be eaten together with winter melon simmer soup, fried loofah, fried lotus root slices and fried bitter gourd, and can also play the role of removing fire, dispelling fire and relieving cough. There are also various anti-inflammatory drugs and cough drugs, which have a good therapeutic effect on wind-heat cough. Do not eat spicy and easily ignited food during cough, such as mutton, dog meat, black-bone chicken, silkworm chrysalis, fish, shrimp, jujube, longan, litchi, walnut kernel, cherry and pepper.

Wind-heat cough is the easiest to cure Generally, the above diet can be basically relieved after 2 ~ 3 times, and pay attention to drinking more water in the future. During the treatment, we should pay attention to the changes of patients' tongue coating. Once the tongue coating turns white, stop all the cold foods mentioned above.

Deficiency cough

Refers to those chronic coughs caused by long-term recurrent attacks or colds and fever. The symptoms of cold and fever have disappeared, and the cough has been severe. All kinds of anti-inflammatory drugs and cough drugs have been used, but they still can't stop. Although the degree of coughing is reduced, they still cough often. At this time, diet therapy can be used to help the body recover. A lot of anti-inflammatory drugs and antitussive drugs are used when coughing repeatedly, which generally leads to poor appetite and no appetite. The tongue coating is almost white. At this time, it is necessary to regulate the spleen and stomach first, and then cooperate with foods that tonify kidney, lung and blood to improve physical fitness. Specific practices are as follows:

1. The dietotherapy prescription for treating cough due to wind-cold introduced earlier is suitable for adults and children with deficiency cough, while those who have persistent cough should avoid using dietotherapy prescription for cough due to wind-heat cough.

2. People with virtual cough have a characteristic, that is, the position of cough is deep, and if you cough badly, you have to bend over. As long as they feel that their cough is deep, they must strengthen their nutrition. They can eat braised mutton, put more peppers, eat more eel, beef and shrimp. When you replenish energy, you will feel that the cough position is getting shallower and shallower, which also shows that the condition is decreasing. When the cough is already mild,

3. Jujube and gingko: Take jujube adults 10 (cut) and gingko children 3, gingko adults 10 and children 2-3, shell them, put them in a small pot, add more than half a bowl of water, put them on fire, and put them on medium fire 10 minute. Let children eat red dates and ginkgo once a day and drink water once, preferably before going to bed every night. Jujube is warm in nature, invigorating qi, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, ginkgo is flat in nature, astringing lung qi, relieving cough and asthma, and has the function of strengthening kidney. Therefore, for people who have persistent cough, repeated colds, fever, cough, polyuria, frequent urination and enuresis, the effect of eating jujube and ginkgo decoction every night is very obvious. However, the amount of red dates and ginkgo must be controlled well, and children are limited to 2 ~ 3 capsules. If the amount is too much, the child will easily get angry and stagnate.

4. Both Guyuan Ointment and angelica powder can treat deficiency asthma and cough. Children can only eat Guyuan ointment. Angelica powder gets angry easily, so it is not suitable for children to eat.

Cough massage

It is best to do less massage for cough due to wind-cold and cough due to internal injury, and give priority to diet therapy to enrich blood and dispel cold. You can soak your feet with warm water every night to make your whole body sweat slightly. When you have a bad cold, you can use a small handful of mugwort leaves and a large piece of ginger to boil water to soak your feet and sweat, which has obvious effects of eliminating cold and dampness. Parents often pat their children on the back when they cough, patting them up, down, left and right with their empty palms. If the child coughs when shooting a certain part, it means that the child's sputum has accumulated here, so it is necessary to focus on shooting. Most parts of the child below the scapula, that is, the bottom of the lung, are easy to accumulate phlegm. As long as there is sputum stimulation, the child will cough. Once the sputum is discharged, the cough can be temporarily relieved. Therefore, patting the back can broaden the chest and regulate qi, and promote the discharge of sputum. It is best to pat the child on the back when the child just wakes up from sleep and when the child is about to fall asleep, so that the child can cough up phlegm, which is beneficial to sleep.

Adults can hit the wall with their backs for 20 ~ 30 minutes. The fever generated by the back collision can relax the lungs and trachea and reduce cough.

People with wind-heat cough are treated with scraping, and the effect is better.

1. Scraping or cupping on the back from cervical vertebra to waist can effectively dredge meridians, regulate qi, stop dryness and relieve cough.

You can shave your chest.

3. You can rub 100 times on the lung meridian outside the arm from thenar to the outside of the elbow, which can dredge the lung meridian, relieve cough and resolve phlegm, and you can do 1 ~ 2 times a day.