Six secret recipes to cure cough quickly

The hot and dry weather can easily cause coughs, and some coughs are particularly stubborn and difficult to cure. So how can you cure a cough completely? Do you know what to eat to get better quickly when you have a cough? The Popular Health Network recommends several secret recipes of medicated food that are effective in relieving coughs.

1. Stewed pears with rock sugar to reduce phlegm and relieve cough

Peel the fresh pears, split them open and remove the cores. Add appropriate amount of rock sugar and steam them in a pot until soft.

2. Tofu candy relieves cough, phlegm and asthma

500 grams of tofu, 100 grams each of brown sugar and white sugar. Dig a hole in the tofu, add red and white sugar, put it in a bowl and cook for 30 minutes; eat it all at once, take 4 times in a row; it can clear away heat, promote salivation, moisten dryness, and treat cough, phlegm and asthma.

3. Corn silk and orange peel can treat cough

Appropriate amounts of corn silk and orange peel. Add water and boil together, take twice a day; it can relieve cough and reduce phlegm, treat wind-cold cough and excessive phlegm.

4. Radish and pig lung cough soup

1 radish, 1 pig lung, 15 grams of almonds. Add water and cook for 1 hour, eat the meat and drink the soup; it can clear away heat and resolve phlegm, relieve cough and asthma, and treat long-term cough, excessive phlegm and shortness of breath.

5. Peanut and Adenophora Soup for Cough and Less Phlegm

25 grams each of peanuts, ginkgo, lily, and northern adenophora, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Decoction in water to extract juice, add rock sugar, take 1 dose daily; it moistens the lungs and resolves phlegm, treats chronic cough with little phlegm, shortness of breath and dry throat.

6. Huangjing Rock Sugar to Relieve Cough and Asthma

30 grams of Polygonatum sibiricum (Chinese herbal medicine) and 50 grams of crystal sugar. Wash the Polygonatum odoratum, soak it with cold water, put it in a casserole, add rock sugar and appropriate amount of water, put the pot on the stove, boil it with high heat, then simmer it with low heat until the Polygonatum odoratum is cooked, twice a day.

Eating Polygonatum sibiricum and drinking its soup can clear the lungs, regulate the spleen, and benefit the essence. It is used to treat coughs caused by dryness and deficiency of the lungs, dry coughs without sputum, difficulty in spitting out phlegm, loss of appetite and dry mouth, kidney deficiency and essence deficiency, etc.