In the dry spring weather, some people may experience coughing due to the fluctuating temperatures. Taking medication may not provide significant relief. Today, I will recommend four effective cough remedies. Let's take a look together!
Cough Remedies
1. Stir-Fried Carrots with Almonds
Ingredients: 200g carrots, 50g almonds, 3g salt, 3g sugar, 3g soy sauce
Instructions:
1. Wash the carrots and cut them into small pieces.
2. Heat the oil in a pan, add the carrots and stir-fry until cooked. Add the almond slices and stir-fry for 1 minute.
3. Add salt, sugar, and soy sauce, and stir-fry evenly.
Benefits: This remedy helps clear heat, dissolve phlegm, moisten the lungs, relieve cough, promote bowel movement, detoxify, protect the eyes, and nourish the skin.
2. Steamed Pear Rice with Fritillaria Bulb
Ingredients: 10g fritillaria bulb, 1 water pear, 30g glutinous rice, salt to taste
Instructions:
1. Wash and peel the pear, cut it open, and remove the core and some of the flesh. Wash the fritillaria bulb and glutinous rice, then mix the diced pear with them. Fill the pear with the mixture and steam it over water until cooked.
2. Season with salt and serve.
Benefits: This remedy helps relieve cough, dissolve phlegm, clear heat, moisturize the skin, tonify the middle, nourish qi, nourish yin, and relieve dryness.
3. Monk Fruit and Lean Pork Soup
Ingredients: 20g monk fruit, 15g loquat leaves, 200g lean pork, 2g salt
Instructions:
1. Wash the monk fruit and cut it into small pieces. Soak the loquat leaves for 30 minutes. Wash the lean pork and blanch it in boiling water before cutting it into pieces.
2. Boil an appropriate amount of water in a pot, then add the monk fruit, loquat leaves, and lean pork.
3. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer on low heat for 3 hours. Season with salt.
Benefits: This remedy helps clear heat, cool the blood, generate fluid, relieve cough, promote bowel movement, nourish and moisturize the skin, and dissolve phlegm.
4. Water with Chinese Yam and Rock Sugar
Ingredients: 30g Chinese yam, 50g rock sugar
Instructions:
1. Wash the Chinese yam and soak it in cold water until it softens. Put it in a pot.
2. Add rock sugar and an appropriate amount of water. Simmer the mixture over high and low heat until the Chinese yam is fully cooked.
Benefits: This remedy helps clear the lungs, relieve cough, and nourish essence.
These cough remedies are easy to make and highly effective. Be sure to keep them for your family!
