What should I do if I keep coughing?

Cough is a very common lung disease in daily life, and there are many reasons for coughing. Generally speaking, a cold or lung fire can easily lead to coughing. Coughing is also a chronic disease and it is easy to recur. In addition to drug treatment, coughing can be treated with dietary adjustments, which do not have too many side effects on the body.

What to do if you keep coughing?

1. Rock sugar

Rock sugar can "relieve cough and eliminate phlegm" and is best boiled in water and drunk or chewed and eaten. Therefore, it is used in many cough-relieving prescriptions.

Rock sugar, white sugar and brown sugar have different effects. Brown sugar has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is suitable for women during menstruation or after childbirth; while rock sugar and white sugar can clear away heat, reduce inflammation, remove internal heat, stop hot coughs, and resolve thick phlegm. People who have coughs can eat rock sugar, which has the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving coughs.

2. Sydney

Pear means benefit, and its nature is to flow downward smoothly. It has the effects of treating wind-heat, moistening the lungs, cooling the heart, eliminating phlegm, reducing fire, and detoxifying.

Snow pear has the effect of moistening the lungs, clearing dryness, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. Therefore, it is effective for patients with acute bronchitis and upper respiratory tract infection who suffer from dry throat, itching, pain, hoarseness, thick phlegm, constipation and red urine.

Snow pears can be eaten raw, steamed, or made into soups and porridge. However, snow pears are cold in nature, so it is not advisable to eat too much at one time. Especially those with weak spleen and stomach, cold abdominal pain and blood deficiency should not eat too much, as eating too much can easily damage the spleen and stomach.

Recipe recommendation: [Snow pear with rock sugar]

Ingredients: 700g snow pear (try to choose juicy and thin-skinned ones), 50g rock sugar, 2000ml water.

Steps:

① Wash, peel and cut the pear into pieces. Add a small amount of water to the pot, just enough to cover the pears, put the pears in and bring to a boil over high heat.

② Add rock sugar, turn to medium heat, and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes after the rock sugar is completely melted. Turn off the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes.

Tips:

① Rock sugar snow pear can only be more effective in treating coughs if it is made with real snow pears. There is a kind of crown pear that is very similar to the snow pear. You should be careful to identify it when buying snow pears.

② If you add Fritillaria cirrhosa to rock sugar and snow pear and cook them together, the effect of treating wind-heat cough will be better.

3. Kumquat

Kumquat has anti-inflammatory, expectorant, qi-regulating and cough-relieving effects, and has a significant therapeutic effect on bronchitis.

The characteristic of kumquat is that the peel and the flesh can be eaten together. After chewing, you will feel the throat is moistened and the mouth is full of fragrance. 80% of the vitamin C in kumquat is concentrated in the peel, up to 200 mg per 100 grams. In addition to being eaten fresh, kumquats can also be made into tea. One of its major uses is to process it into white sugar kumquat cake, licorice kumquat cake, jam, orange peel wine, kumquat juice, etc. Aromatic oil can also be extracted from the peel, which has high medicinal value.

4. Walnut kernels

Walnut kernels contain a variety of trace elements needed by the human body and are an important auxiliary material for Chinese patent medicine. They have the functions of relieving qi and replenishing blood, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, moistening the lungs and nourishing the kidneys. When you have a cough, chewing some walnut kernels can effectively relieve the cough.