What should patients with cold cough eat?

When the weather is cold, some people's bodies become very weak and easily susceptible to various diseases. Catching a cold is the most common one, which seriously affects our physical health, makes us lose our appetite and suffer from unbearable pain. Especially when you are sick and cough incessantly, it is really annoying. So many people are looking for ways to solve the symptoms. So what should patients with cold cough eat?

1: Dry cough (caused by cold or other reasons): 3 grams (about one tablespoon) of raw black sesame seeds, appropriate amount of rock sugar, crush them together and drink with boiled water on an empty stomach in the morning. It will be cured in 3 days. Eat less fish.

2: Cough with phlegm (including acute tracheitis, bronchitis, and childhood tracheitis): 2 taels of white radish and 2 taels of duck pear, chop them together, add a bowl of water, cook them, add appropriate amount of rock sugar and eat, twice a day for 3 consecutive days. Clears heat and resolves phlegm.

3. Long-term cough (cough caused by emphysema and tracheitis, etc.): grind one or two liang of alum into powder and mix it with vinegar to make a paste. Apply a soybean-sized ball to the sole of the foot (Yongquan acupoint) before going to bed every night. Wrap it with cloth and remove it the next morning. It will work for 2 days. (*You can buy it at the pharmacy)

1. Folk remedy for treating cough: Take a piece of ginger, wash it, peel it and cut it into slices. Carry it with you. When you have a cough, put a piece of ginger in your mouth and chew it. You will feel spicy and hot in your mouth, throat and chest, and the cough will stop. When your throat is itchy, chew a piece of ginger. Ginger is pungent and warm in nature, and enters the lung and spleen meridians. It can dispel cold, relieve cough and resolve phlegm. There are folk proverbs such as "Three slices of ginger a day to avoid having to prescribe medicine from the doctor" and "A cup of tea and a slice of ginger is a good way to keep warm and strengthen the stomach." Chewing a piece of ginger in the morning can also increase appetite and enhance resistance to cold.

2. Fumigation of feet with mugwort leaves can cure cough. Cough is one of the most common respiratory symptom. If cough caused by cold is ineffective with antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and cough suppressant medicines, you can use a simple method to treat cough - fumigating your feet with mugwort leaves. This method can enable patients to obtain satisfactory therapeutic effects.

The specific method is: put 30-50 grams of mugwort leaves into about 1500 ml of boiling water and boil for about 15 minutes, remove the mugwort leaves and pour the decocted medicine into a small foot basin. Place your feet on the edge of the basin while it's still hot to receive the fumigation. To prevent the medicinal vapor from evaporating, you can cover your feet with a piece of cloth slightly larger than the foot basin. When the water temperature is lower and your feet can tolerate it, you can soak your feet directly in the basin. This method should be performed once every night (preferably before going to bed), each time for 15 to 20 minutes. Generally, 3 to 5 consecutive times can cure the cough.

3. Rice porridge with onion and ginger can cure cough. Recipe: 10 grams of ginger, 10 grams of onion stems, 50 grams of rice. Usage: chop the ginger and onion into fine pieces and set aside. Cook rice into porridge. When the porridge is cooked, add ginger and scallion and cook for a while. Indications: Cold and cough

4. Homemade wine to cure cough. The method of making homemade wine is as follows: any variety of grapes can be used, rock sugar and white wine must be grain wine, each 1000 grams. Wash the container and grapes, grind the grapes without peeling them and the rock sugar into powder and put them into the container, pour in the white wine, seal the lid, and leave it indoors for a month before opening the lid. Squeeze the grapes into juice, remove the skin and core, stir well, bottle and drink. Take it once every night before going to bed, and the dosage should not exceed 25 grams. Note that you should not eat other food after drinking.

After reading the above introduction about what patients with cold cough should eat, I think everyone should have some understanding. There are many ways for patients to improve cold coughs, and the best way is diet. We must control our diet properly and keep warm to prevent more diseases and their complications. We must prevent colds in time and not delay, otherwise the condition will worsen.