What to eat for dry heat and cough

After catching a cold, you will experience heat and cough, which is very uncomfortable. In this case, you need to pay attention to your diet. So what should you eat when you have heat and cough? If the disease is more serious, it is best to choose effective medicine to improve it. Usually, you should pay attention to eating foods that can moisten the lungs, such as stewed pear with Fritillaria cirrhosa, mint monk fruit water, and pear juice with honey. These foods are effective for this disease.

What to eat to cure fever and cough quickly

Heat cough is a common cough symptom, and its main manifestations are heavy cough, spitting out yellow sticky sputum, dry and itchy throat, and yellow nasal discharge. The best way to quickly treat a hot cough is with diet therapy. Eating the following ten foods can help a hot cough heal quickly.

1. Sichuan Fritillary Bulbs Stewed with Pear

Chuanbei can clear lung heat, and when taken together with snow pear, it has the effect of clearing the lungs, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. It usually takes about thirty minutes to stew Sichuan Fritillary Bulbs and Snow Pear. You can also stew it with rock sugar Tremella and Snow Pear together.

2. Mint monk fruit water

Take 3-6 grams of mint, half or one monk fruit, and one or two sterculia lychnophora seeds. Then brew it with 500 ml of boiling water and drink it after 15-20 minutes. If you often suffer from bloating and stomach stagnation, half a monk fruit will be enough.

3. Pear juice porridge

Chop 1 fresh pear with skin, put it in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil for 30 minutes, remove the residue and cook it with 50 grams of washed glutinous rice into porridge, which can be consumed warm.

4. Olive and Radish Drink

400 grams of olives and 500-1000 grams of radish, boil them into soup and drink as tea.

5. Green olive and apricot pig lung soup

Stew 8 green olives, 9 grams of northern apricots and an appropriate amount of pig lungs. It has the effects of clearing heat and relieving sore throat, promoting lung function and relieving cough.

6. Pear juice

Put 100 grams of pears (washed, cored and sliced), 5 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa (mashed) and 8 grams of Platycodon grandiflorum into a pot and boil for about 20 to 30 minutes. Then add 10 grams of chrysanthemum and cook for another 5 minutes. Remove the residue and take the juice. Add appropriate amount of rock sugar and serve warm.

7. Water chestnut water

Water chestnuts are cold in nature, and water chestnut water can resolve phlegm and clear away heat. Take 2-3 water chestnuts, peel them, cut them into thin slices, put them in a pot, add a bowl of water, and cook on the fire for 5 minutes. This prescription is effective for patients with febrile cough and sputum.

8. Drink chrysanthemum and apricot tea instead

6 grams each of chrysanthemum, almond, and mulberry leaves, and 3 grams of licorice. Brew with boiling water and drink as tea. Suitable for acute bronchitis of wind-heat type.

9. Silver Flower and Almond Drink

15 grams of honeysuckle, 6 grams each of almond and mulberry leaf, 3 grams each of platycodon and licorice, brew with boiling water and drink.

10. Mulberry and apricot rock sugar drink

5 grams of mulberry leaves (Yupin), 3 grams of almonds, and 5 grams of crystal sugar. Put mulberry leaves and almonds into a pot, add 1 bowl of water, boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until half a bowl of water remains. Remove the residue and keep the juice, then add rock sugar. Take with warm water, 1 dose per day. Dispel wind-heat, promote lung function and regulate Qi. It is suitable for children with exogenous wind-heat, cough, yellow sputum or white and sticky sputum, and nasal congestion.