Nowadays, some people experience coughing symptoms when winter comes. Coughs can be dry or productive, and they not only bring inconvenience to our daily lives but also fear of spreading to others. So today, I will introduce to you what to eat when you have a productive cough. Let's take a look together!
What to eat when you have a productive cough
1. Radish and scallion soup for treating wind-cold cough
Recipe: 1 radish, 6 scallions, 15g ginger. Boil the radish in 3 bowls of water, then add the scallions and ginger to make a bowl of soup. Drink the soup with the residue.
Suitable for: Dispelling lung heat, resolving phlegm, and stopping cough. It is used to treat wind-cold cough, excessive foamy phlegm, accompanied by aversion to cold, fatigue, and body aches.
2. Ginger, jujube, and brown sugar soup for treating cold-induced cough
Recipe: 30g brown sugar, 15g fresh ginger, 30g red dates. Boil the ingredients in 3 bowls of water until half remains. Drink it in one go. Sweating after consumption indicates recovery.
Suitable for: Dispelling wind and dispersing cold. It is used to treat cold-induced cough, stomach cold pain, postpartum cold-induced diarrhea, etc.
3. Steamed turtle with fritillaria to nourish yin and tonify the lungs
Recipe: 5g fritillaria, 1 turtle (about 500g), 1kg chicken broth, scallions, ginger, Sichuan peppercorns, cooking wine, salt, all appropriate amounts. Slaughter the turtle and remove the head and viscera, then cut it into pieces. Place the turtle pieces in a steaming dish, add fritillaria, salt, cooking wine, Sichuan peppercorns, scallions, and ginger. Steam for 1 hour and consume while hot.
Suitable for: Nourishing yin, clearing heat, moisturizing the lungs, and stopping cough. It is used to treat yin deficiency cough, asthma, low-grade fever, night sweats, etc.
4. Fresh pear with fritillaria for treating cough and lung abscess
Recipe: 500g fresh pear, 6g fritillaria powder, 30g white sugar. Peel and cut the pear, remove the core, and fill it with fritillaria powder and white sugar. Steam it in a bowl. Eat it in the morning and evening.
Suitable for: Clearing heat, resolving phlegm, and dispersing masses. It is used to treat cough, lung abscess, with symptoms including chest pain, chills, cough, fever, dry mouth, dry throat, yellow foul-smelling phlegm, or bloody phlegm.
What not to eat when you have a cough
1. Cold and cool foods: Avoid consuming cold drinks or frozen beverages when coughing. If the diet is too cold, it can cause lung congestion and worsen symptoms, delaying recovery.
2. Fatty, sweet, and fried foods: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coughs are mostly caused by lung heat, especially in babies. In daily diet, eating foods that are fatty and sweet can generate internal heat, aggravating coughs and making phlegm sticky and difficult to cough up. Fried foods should also be avoided. Babies have weaker gastrointestinal functions when coughing, and fried foods can increase the burden on the digestive system, promote dampness and heat, and produce more phlegm, making it difficult for the cough to heal.
