What to do if you have an itchy throat and cough

If you have an itchy throat and cough frequently, you need to understand whether it is caused by a cold. You can also regulate it through some dietary methods. For example, radish tea and apricot pear tea can help clear away heat and resolve phlegm, regulate qi and stimulate appetite.

1. Radish tea

Ingredients: 100 grams of white radish, 5 grams of tea.

Preparation: Brew tea leaves with boiling water for 5 minutes and take the juice; wash and slice the white radish, put it in a pot and cook it until it is soft, then pour in the tea juice. Take 2 doses daily, warm and take at any time.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and resolves phlegm, regulates qi and stimulates appetite. It is suitable for cough with excessive sputum, poor appetite, etc. It is more suitable for people with lung heat, cough and excessive sputum.

2. Apricot and pear tea

Ingredients: 10 grams of bitter almonds, 1 large duck pear, and a little rock sugar.

Preparation: Peel the almonds and crush them; core the pears and cut them into pieces; add appropriate amount of water and cook until the rock sugar is dissolved. Drink as tea at any time.

Efficacy: This tea can moisten the lungs and relieve cough. Suitable for acute tracheitis and cough of dryness and heat type.

3. Northern Apricot Pig Lung Soup

Ingredients: 250 grams of pig lungs, 10 grams of northern apricots, and appropriate amounts of ginger juice and fine salt.

Preparation: Cut the pig lung into pieces and wash them clean. Boil them with northern apricots and appropriate amount of water. When the soup is almost done, add 1-2 tablespoons of ginger juice and season with salt. Drink the soup and eat pig lungs twice a day.

Efficacy: This soup can relieve cough, reduce phlegm and nourish the lungs. Suitable for chronic bronchitis, dry intestine and constipation, etc.

4. Shabai duck soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of Northern Adenophora, 30 grams of lily, 200 grams of duck meat, and appropriate amounts of onion, ginger, and refined salt.

Preparation: Slice the Adenophora and lily; cut the duck meat into small pieces, add onion, ginger, etc., add salt, and appropriate amount of water to cook the soup until the duck meat is cooked. Eat duck meat and drink soup. Once a day or every other day.

Efficacy: Nourishes yin and clears heat, moistens the lungs and relieves cough. It is suitable for cough caused by yin deficiency and excessive fire, uncomfortable sputum, blood in sputum, etc.

5. Tremella and rock sugar soup

Ingredients: 10 grams of Tremella, 20 grams of rock sugar.

Preparation method: First remove the stems of the white fungus, pick out impurities, and soak it in cold boiled water until it swells and softens. Put the white fungus and rock sugar in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, and simmer over low heat for 90 minutes until the white fungus is soft and the soup is thick. Eat at midnight, once a night.

Efficacy: Nourishes yin and moistens dryness, resolves phlegm and relieves cough. It is suitable for symptoms such as dry cough with little sputum, difficulty in coughing up, and blood in sputum caused by insufficient lung yin.