When the body is hot and the sputum is yellow-green, this situation is generally called hot cough. At this time, you can eat radish, wax gourd, pear, seaweed, loquat leaves and persimmon and other foods with cooling effect. It is better to eat raw radish pieces, and the effect is better than that of cooked radish.
If the body is cold, sometimes it is cold, and the sputum is transparent, it is cold when it feels cold. Suitable foods are garlic, ginger, onion, dried tangerine peel, ginkgo, walnut and so on. Adding a little chopped ginger to the water can keep warm, and fighting for apricots can cure cough and asthma.
However, it should be noted that eating ginkgo raw can cause dizziness or spasm. So be sure to cook with fire. Adults can eat 10 a day, and children are limited to five. The fruit of Nandina domestica and the bark of cherry tree must be boiled before drinking.
When the fruits of Nandina domestica are ripe, they are dried. In terms of daily weight, 10 gram of fruit is added with 600 grams of water, simmered, removed from the pool, and boiled to half. Drink it three times between meals. The bark of cherry trees should be cut in June and July to remove the hard skin and green parts outside, and then dried. The daily dosage is about 5- 10, and the decoction and administration methods are the same as those of nandina domestica fruit.
Jujube wine also has the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm. The method is to use 18 liter of 35-degree distilled liquor, add 900 grams of jujube (only 300 grams if it is jujube), put it in the dark for 3 months, and ferment it. You can drink it directly or blend it with rock sugar and honey.
Taboo food: Excessive consumption of pork often leads to excessive phlegm. Therefore, it is best not to eat when people are prone to phlegm or fever. People with excessive phlegm should not eat more sea cucumbers. If people with asthma or cough eat sashimi easily, they will have symptoms such as fever, excessive phlegm and vomiting, and grilled fish can only be eaten in small quantities. In addition, glutinous rice and bamboo shoots will aggravate asthma or cough, and it is best to avoid eating those with cough symptoms.
A long-term cough is not necessarily tuberculosis, just as a cough is not necessarily caused by a cold. Cough in TCM can be roughly divided into four reasons:
colds cough
That is to say, according to western medicine, the virus invading the upper respiratory tract causes a series of reactions of the body's immune system. The secretion of trachea and nasal mucosa increases, and the patient has symptoms such as runny nose, stuffy nose and excessive phlegm. Because there is phlegm and saliva in the throat, reflex actions such as contraction and cough are made in order to eliminate phlegm. At the same time, the body tries to kill bacteria by raising the temperature (fever). This will continue until the virus is defeated.
cough with lung heat
This situation is very common. The difference between lung heat cough and cold cough is that lung heat cough may not be accompanied by symptoms such as bone pain, fever, cold and heat; On the contrary, it is accompanied by dry mouth, bitter taste, sore throat, yellow and thick phlegm and saliva and other signs of "dryness and heat". The cause of cough due to lung heat is that the body is full of heat and the mucosal tissue is congested, allowing bacteria to take advantage of it.
A faint cough
This situation is different from the above two coughs. People who cough due to qi deficiency and kidney deficiency will not have an earth-shattering cough, nor will they cough loudly and forcefully, but will only "cough" twice slightly and continuously. Patients always feel itchy throat, talk too much, or run a few steps, throat uncomfortable, can not help but gently cough twice. Cough may have slight gray-black sputum. This cough can last forever, with you all your life.