Colds are the most common illness we encounter in our daily lives. There are always a few times a year when we catch a cold. Everyone has different methods of treating a cold. Some people go get injections and take medicine as soon as they catch a cold, while others ignore it and wait for it to go away on its own... Today, I will introduce a herbal remedy for treating colds and coughs without medication, for quick relief.
1. Ginger Juice with Honey
Effect: Ginger juice with honey can nourish the stomach, moisten the lungs, relieve cough, and dispel cold. It is commonly used in folk medicine to treat chronic cough in the elderly or cough caused by dryness and coldness. The Compendium of Materia Medica records that ginger and honey can be cooked and eaten to treat chronic cough. Ginger has a warm and pungent nature and enters the lung, spleen, and stomach meridians. It has the functions of dispersing cold, warming the middle, stopping vomiting, promoting expectoration and diuresis, and detoxification.
2. Scallion White Throat Soothing Soup
Effect: Licorice has pharmacological effects such as detoxification, expectorant, analgesic, and antispasmodic. In traditional Chinese medicine, licorice strengthens the spleen and boosts qi, nourishes the lungs, alleviates urgency, detoxifies, and harmonizes other herbs. It detoxifies and dispels cold, clearing and soothing the throat. It is used to treat pharyngitis caused by wind and cold invasion.
3. Honey Ginger Radish Drink
Effect: White radish is a common vegetable that can be eaten raw or cooked. It has a slightly spicy taste. Modern research shows that white radish contains mustard oil, amylase, and crude fiber, which can promote digestion, increase appetite, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, and relieve cough and phlegm. This drink is also suitable for people with cough, dry and sore throat, and hoarse voice caused by lung heat. People in this category can also consume fresh radish and fresh water chestnut regularly.
4. Lily and Winter Flower Drink
Effect: Lily moistens the lungs and relieves cough. Winter flower is warm and pungent, and has the functions of moistening the lungs, relieving cough, and transforming phlegm. The extract of winter flower can slightly dilate the bronchi and has antispasmodic effects against histamine-induced spasms. Therefore, it has the effects of relieving cough, dispelling phlegm, and relieving asthma. The combination of these two herbs has the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving cough, and transforming phlegm.
5. Steamed Pear with Tendrilled Fritillary Bulb
Effect: Traditional Chinese medicine has long believed that Tendrilled Fritillary Bulb has a bitter and sweet taste, and a slightly cold nature. It belongs to the lung and heart meridians. It is used to treat cough with phlegm heat, cough caused by external factors, cough due to yin deficiency, less phlegm and dry throat, thick and yellow sputum, lung abscess, breast abscess, carbuncle, and swollen poison. Modern pharmacological studies have proven that Tendrilled Fritillary Bulb has antitussive, hypotensive, and blood sugar raising effects.
6. Adenophora, Lilyturf, Ophiopogon, and Dwarf Lilyturf Decoction
Effect: Adenophora and Ophiopogon nourish the lungs and stomach, Lilyturf and Pollen replenish body fluids and relieve thirst, Mung Bean and Licorice invigorate qi and nourish the middle, and relieve and harmonize the stomach. Combined with Mulberry Leaves, it gently clears dryness and heat, and has the function of nourishing the lungs and stomach, and moistening dryness.
