1. Exogenous cough should spread the lung and eliminate evil. Cough due to internal injuries is mostly mixed with excess and deficiency, so it is advisable to treat both the symptoms and root causes. Deficiency is mainly strengthening the body resistance and tonifying the lungs, while reality is mainly eliminating evil and resolving phlegm.
2. Diet should be light, eat more vegetables and fruits, and be careful to eat spicy, greasy and smelly products.
Second, dialectical diet-wind-heat invading the lungs
Symptoms include fever, headache, mild aversion to cold, cough and sore throat, and thin yellow fur.
Cough treatment of wind-heat and phlegm.
Diet therapy party
(1) fig tea (dietotherapy)
Formula: fig 30g, green tea 15g.
Method and usage: put figs and green tea into a teacup, brew with boiling water, soak in warm water for 10 ~ 15 minutes, and add rock sugar to taste. Drink tea instead.
Solution: fig is sweet and cool, and has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production and relieving sore throat. Green tea tastes bitter and cool, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It is flavored with rock sugar. The combination of the three has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, relieving sore throat and relieving cough.
(2) Erhua Tea (a prescription for treating common diseases in children)
Formula: 5g honeysuckle and 3g green tea.
Method and usage: Wash honeysuckle, put it in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil for 5 minutes, remove residue to get juice, pour it into a cup filled with tea, cover it and stew for 5 minutes. Drink tea instead.
Solution: Honeysuckle is sweet in taste and cold in nature, which can not only clear away heat and detoxify, but also have the effect of diarrhea. Green tea tastes bitter, cool, clears away heat and annoys, and promotes diuresis. The combination of the two is suitable for sore throat and cough at the beginning of exogenous wind-heat or epidemic febrile disease.