Cough nonstop? Maybe it's because I ate something I shouldn't have eaten.

Shanxi Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Department of Spleen and Stomach Diseases Han Lingyan

Have you ever met such a scene? As the saying goes, eating pears can cure cough. Are we wrong? # The truth is coming # # It's the right time for Chinese medicine to keep in good health #

Don't! Pears do have the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, but if you want to use pears to relieve cough, you must "prescribe the right medicine"! In fact, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, cough can be divided into cold cough and hot cough. If you are not clear, you may "add fuel to the fire"!

The sputum coughed by patients with wind-cold cough is white and clear, and it is not sticky. Often accompanied by headache, stuffy nose, runny nose, fear of cold and other symptoms. In this case, "cough and eat pears" will be counterproductive. Because pears are cold food, if people with colds eat cold food, it will aggravate their colds, and of course, the more they eat, the more they cough.

Patients with wind-heat cough usually have symptoms such as cough, yellow sputum, dry mouth, dry throat or pain, a little excessive internal heat, and general fever. In this case, you can eat pears raw to improve your cough, because there is a saying in Chinese medicine that "heat is cold."

When cough lasts for a long time, it will turn into deficiency-cold cough. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that "chronic cough will lead to deficiency". If cough is not improved for a long time, it will often lead to weak vital qi and insufficient internal yang. In this case, pears can't be eaten raw, so you can choose to cook pears in Chuanbei to improve the symptoms. Fritillaria cirrhosa is a traditional Chinese medicine, which enters the lung meridian and heart meridian, and has the functions of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, clearing heat and resolving hard mass. Chuanbei, together with Sydney and rock sugar, has the effects of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, moistening lung and nourishing yin. Treat chronic cough, excessive phlegm, dry throat, shortness of breath and fatigue.

If the cough in autumn and winter is cool and dry season, both dry and cold pathogens will invade the human body, showing dry cough and clear nose. People with these symptoms can add ginger and onion roots while cooking pears, cook for 5~6 minutes, eat pears and drink soup. Onion root and ginger are warm and pungent, which have the effect of pungent warming and relieving exterior syndrome, can dispel cold evil, and have synergistic effect on eliminating cool dryness when cooked with pears.

If you cough with phlegm but a small amount, it is yellow or white. Then when cooking pears, you can add some dried tangerine peel or white radish, cook with pears, eat pears and drink soup, which can play the role of moistening dryness and resolving phlegm, regulating qi and relieving cough.

1, cold food

China's traditional Chinese medicine culture is extensive and profound. Chinese medicine believes that once a person's body is cold, it will cause cough, and people who cough can't eat cold food, which will hurt the heart, and most of our coughs are caused by lung diseases. Therefore, don't eat cold drinks when coughing. If you eat too much cold food, it will aggravate your symptoms!

2. orange

Orange peel does have the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, but orange meat produces heat and resolves phlegm instead. But many people mistakenly think that eating oranges can cure cough. Actually, this is not right. Orange peel can relieve cough symptoms, but oranges will aggravate cough, so don't eat oranges during coughing.

3. Fat and sweet food

Experts pointed out that cough is mostly caused by lung heat. At this time, if you eat too much fat and sweet, it will produce internal heat, aggravate cough, and sticky phlegm is not easy to cough up. In addition, you can't eat fried food during coughing. Fried food will increase the burden of gastrointestinal tract, help damp heat, breed sputum, and make cough difficult to recover.

4, supplements

When people are sick, they need tonic. Many people think so. Only by taking tonic can they get better soon. However, this practice is actually wrong. Such tonic is not good for the disease. On the contrary, if you take tonic when you are sick, it is easy to give your body tonic to generate heat and aggravate your cough. Never eat longan and red dates when coughing.

5. Sweet and sour food

There is a folk custom of "stewed pear with rock sugar" to treat cough, which is not suitable for initial cough (new cough). Because sour food often accumulates phlegm, it is difficult to cough, which aggravates the condition and makes it difficult to recover from cough.

Therefore, coughing can't eat sweet and sour food, and eating sweets will also help heat up, making inflammation difficult to cure. Especially when coughing badly, apples, bananas, oranges, grapes, etc. Not edible.

6. Shrimp and crab

The fishy smell has the greatest influence on "wind-heat cough", and eating fishy food after coughing will aggravate the cough. Therefore, you can't eat fishy food such as fish, shrimp and crab when coughing, among which silver carp and hairtail have the greatest influence.

7. Eat peanuts, melon seeds, chocolates, etc.

These foods contain more oil, which is easy to breed sputum after eating, making cough worse.

Also, you can't eat anything too salty during coughing. Eating too salty will first irritate the throat and make it dry and itchy and want to cough. Secondly, if you eat salty food, you will drink a lot of water, and then too much water in your body will also produce phlegm and aggravate your cough.

Cough is a very common disease, but remedies such as coughing and eating pears should be treated according to syndrome differentiation. What are the symptoms? How to eat? What to eat? Everyone is particular, otherwise the more you eat, the more you cough, and the worse you cough. I hope these methods I mentioned today can help patients with cough symptoms. I hope everyone will recover soon, be healthy and be happy every day!