In life, we often hear coughing, but it's not the kind of cough that feels like something is stuck in the throat. What's going on? Why do we experience dry cough? Let me tell you about the dietary treatment for dry cough, what to eat to alleviate dry cough, and why we always have dry cough. Let's find out together.
Dietary Treatment for Dry Cough
1. Radish and Scallion White Soup
Ingredients: 1 radish, 6 scallion whites, 15g ginger.
Method: Boil the radish in three bowls of water, then add the scallion whites and ginger. Simmer until there is one bowl of soup left.
Effects and indications: Radish has a spicy and sweet taste, and it has the functions of clearing heat and generating body fluids, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and transforming phlegm and suppressing cough. This therapy mainly works to promote lung function, dispel external pathogens, and transform phlegm to suppress cough. It is suitable for cough due to wind and cold, accompanied by aversion to cold, fatigue, and body soreness.
2. Radish and Honey Drink
Ingredients: 5 slices of white radish, 3 slices of ginger, 3 jujubes, 30g honey.
Method: Boil the radish, ginger, and jujubes in an appropriate amount of water for about 30 minutes. Remove the residue, add honey, and boil again.
Effects and indications: Radish has the effects of clearing heat, transforming phlegm, and suppressing cough. Ginger can be used to dispel wind and cold, stop vomiting and downward qi, and seal and moisten dryness to suppress cough. The combination of the three can help dispel cold, promote lung function, dispel wind, and suppress cough. However, it should be noted that this therapy is suitable for cough caused by wind-cold colds, and it is not suitable for those who have fever and yellow phlegm.
3. Steamed Garlic Water
Ingredients: 3 cloves of garlic, 1 piece of rock sugar, an appropriate amount of water.
Method: Crush the garlic and put it into a steamer with the rock sugar. Add an appropriate amount of water and steam for 15 minutes after boiling on high heat.
Effects and indications: Garlic has a warm nature and has the effects of promoting the flow of stagnant qi, warming the spleen and stomach, and detoxifying. It is very effective in treating cold-induced cough and kidney-deficiency cough. Rock sugar has the effects of harmonizing the stomach and moistening the lungs, and it has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on cough with lung dryness, dry cough without sputum, and coughing up blood.
What to Eat to Alleviate Dry Cough
1. Lotus Root
In traditional Chinese medicine, lotus root is considered to have a cold nature and a sweet taste. When consumed raw, it has the effects of cooling blood and dispersing blood stasis, and it can be used to treat conditions such as feverishness and thirst, vomiting blood, and hot urinary disorders. Fresh lotus root juice, taken half a cup in the morning and evening, can be used to treat pulmonary tuberculosis bleeding, postpartum bleeding, and nosebleeds.
2. Kumquat
In traditional Chinese medicine, kumquat has a warm nature and a spicy, sweet, and sour taste. It enters the liver, lung, spleen, and stomach meridians, and has the effects of transforming phlegm and suppressing cough, regulating qi and aiding digestion, and soothing the liver and relieving depression. It is mainly used to treat discomfort caused by qi stagnation, chest and rib pain, indigestion, coughing up phlegm, and other symptoms. Kumquat has a good cough-suppressing effect. Eating 5-6 kumquats three times a day can also have medicinal effects.
