What fruits can I eat for cold cough

The opposite of hot cough is cold cough, that is, cough caused by coldness. This is also a relatively common symptom, which is also explained from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine. When this happens, it can be improved through some diet therapy. Eat more foods that can moisten the lungs and relieve coughs. For example, pears have a good cough-relieving effect. In addition, bananas and oranges have certain cough-relieving effects. Let's take a look at this aspect.

What fruits can I eat for cold cough

Eat more pears, eat oranges for sore throat, eat apricots and bananas for dry cough. Asthma, sore throat, excessive phlegm... Sudden cough symptoms often catch people off guard. In fact, in addition to taking symptomatic medicine, fruits also have unexpected effects and can help you alleviate cough symptoms. If you have a cough accompanied by wheezing, or a dry cough without phlegm, you can eat some apricots. Because apricots contain amygdalin, which has the effects of relieving cough and expectorant, warming the lungs and dispersing cold, the almond in the kernel has a stronger antitussive and antiasthmatic effect.

In addition, eating bananas or pineapples when you have a dry cough can also be effective. If your cough is accompanied by a sore throat, it is an inflammatory cough and you might want to eat some oranges. Oranges contain volatile oils, limonene, etc., which can promote the increase of respiratory mucosal secretions, relieve bronchial spasms, and have the effects of expectorant, cough relief, and asthma relief. In addition, the hesperidin in oranges contains vitamin P-like substances, which have anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects. People who are in the early stages of the disease or have a long-term cough and phlegm can eat some pears. "Compendium of Materia Medica" once recorded that pears can "moisten the lungs and cool the heart, clear phlegm and reduce fire..."

This is because pears contain glycosides and tannic acid. The effect will be better if you add Fritillaria cirrhosa and rock sugar and then steam the pears before eating. You can also eat some loquat, because loquat contains amygdalin, which can relieve cough and eliminate phlegm. Loquat paste made from loquat fruit also has the effects of cooling down, relieving fever, and resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Although the reasons for each person's cough are different, they can be divided into cold, heat, deficiency and excess, such as cold cough, hot cough, dry cough, long-term cough, etc.

When eating fruits, you should distinguish between cold and hot: people with cold constitution can choose warm-tasting fruits, such as lychee, longan, pomegranate, cherry, orange, etc.; people with hot constitution should eat more cold fruits, such as cantaloupe, watermelon, pear, banana, mango, persimmon, grapefruit, etc. Since there are many causes of coughing, and the severity varies, we cannot rely solely on fruits to cure "coughs", but also need symptomatic treatment.

Steamed garlic water is good for dispelling cold and relieving cough

Method: Take 7 to 10 cloves of garlic (3 to 5 cloves for children), smash them, put them in a bowl, add half a bowl of water, put in a piece of rock sugar, cover the bowl, put it in a pot to steam, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for 15 minutes over low heat. When the garlic water in the bowl is no longer hot, drink it when it is relatively warm. You don’t have to eat the garlic. Drink it 2 to 3 times a day, half a bowl each time.

Efficacy: Garlic is warm in nature and enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. It is very effective in treating cold coughs and kidney deficiency coughs. If consumed together with warm foods that regulate the spleen and stomach, and nourish the kidneys and lungs, the symptoms can be quickly controlled.