What can I eat to quickly relieve a cough?

Colds and coughs are common symptoms of respiratory diseases and can occur throughout the year, but are more common in autumn and winter. Many children and the elderly were not spared. Moreover, coughs are usually stubborn and some may not completely improve for half a month or even several months. Severe coughs will not only affect sleep but also cause many complications. Therefore, everyone must pay attention to it and seek timely treatment. In addition to drug treatment, nebulization can now also relieve coughs. At the same time, you can eat more foods that clear heat and moisten the lungs to get rid of the trouble of coughing as soon as possible. Below, the editor will introduce to you some foods that can relieve cough.

Coughing is a very painful thing, and the course of the disease is relatively long. Colds, bacterial infections, dry air, dust pollution, etc. can all cause coughing. How can you make a cough heal quickly? In fact, many foods in daily life are very effective in treating coughs and keeping a healthy body.

1. Rock sugar

"Bencao Zaixin" said: Rock sugar can "relieve cough and resolve phlegm" and is suitable for boiling in water and drinking or chewing and eating. 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

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records that pears are beneficial and their 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.