What medicine should I take if I can't cough up phlegm?

What should I do if I have phlegm in my lungs and can’t cough it out? There are many reasons why patients are unable to cough up phlegm. First: Inability to cough up phlegm. In this case, you need to use expectorant and cough suppressant drugs or nutritional supplements to treat the disease. Second: The patient's disease causes phlegm to be unable to be coughed up, such as a malignant tumor in the lungs, which causes bronchial obstruction and the inability to cough up phlegm. Third, if the patient is bedridden, the cough center will be poor and he will not be able to cough up phlegm. There are different treatments depending on the cause. This article provides some home remedies for reducing phlegm and relieving cough.

1. Buy a pear (a larger one), peel it, cut off the pear head (leave some flesh) and use it as a lid. Remove the pear core, put the Fritillaria cirrhosa bought from the pharmacy (the more expensive one is Fritillaria thunbergii, so ask the pharmacy to grind it into powder) into the pear core, cover it with the original cut pear lid, insert two toothpicks on the side, put it in a large bowl with water, DUN it in water, and add rock sugar after ten minutes. At this time, you can also remove a toothpick to add some Sichuan Fritillaria to the soup.

You have to eat all the soup and pear. Eat it for two consecutive days, one a day, not more, because it tastes good and is good for children.

2. Steamed pear with Fritillaria cirrhosa (specially for: cough)

Ingredients: one snow pear or duck pear, 6 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa, and 20 grams of rock sugar.

Preparation and administration: Cut the pear at the stem, hollow out and remove the core, then grind the Fritillaria cirrhosa into powder. Put it into the pear and use a toothpick to restore and secure the handle. Put rock sugar in a large bowl, add a small amount of water, and steam for half an hour.

Eat the steamed pear with the Fritillaria cirrhosa in it.

Indications and functions: Fritillaria is a good medicine for resolving phlegm and relieving cough. When used together with snow pear and rock sugar, it has the effects of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, moistening the lungs and nourishing yin.

Treats chronic cough, excessive sputum, dry throat, shortness of breath and fatigue. .

(1): Use 7 slices of fresh ginger, fry them with sesame oil (other oils are ineffective), add sugar and eat all at once. Whether the cough is caused by a common cold or influenza, the cough will take effect on the same day for mild cases and will be cured in 3 days. For long-term coughs, it will take about 7 days.

(2) Cut the white radish into slices and tear up the dried tangerine peel (tangerine peel is the peel of oranges). Put the slices into a cup and fill the cup with water (hot water, 70% to 80% full). Put the cup in a microwave and cook it on medium heat for 1 minute. Take it out and bring it to a drinkable temperature before drinking. This product is particularly effective in relieving coughs, especially those that are very severe, such as those that make you gasp for breath or cause stomach pain. Take it three times a day, and it will generally be effective after one day of use.

(3): 1 pear, 50 grams of honey. First, remove the core of the white pear, fill the core with honey, heat and steam it. Eat 1 pear each morning and evening for several days. This prescription can promote the production of body fluids and moisten dryness, relieve cough and resolve phlegm. It is used to treat long-term cough, dry throat, hot hands and soles caused by yin deficiency and lung dryness.

(4): Half a cup of sugarcane juice, half a cup of radish juice, and 100 grams of wild lily. First boil the lily bulbs, then add the two juices, take before bed, once a day. This recipe moistens the lungs and relieves cough, moistens dryness, soothes the mind and calms the nerves, treats cough due to deficiency heat, and is most suitable for weak people with tracheitis after illness

1. Orange peel porridge

Dry the orange peel, grind it into powder, then add it to the porridge. Continue cooking for a while before eating. It can effectively relieve the condition of excessive phlegm.

2. Rock sugar almond pear

Wash the pears, scoop out the core with a spoon, and add the peeled and crushed almonds and rock sugar into the pears. Put the pears in a bowl and steam them until cooked. Take it once a day for 5 consecutive days to see the effect.

3. Radish juice, ginger juice

Wash the radish, without peeling it, cut it into thin slices and add maltose and place it in a bowl. The next day, there will be melted radish juice, which you can drink directly. You can also take radish juice and boiled ginger juice together.

4. Lily and almond porridge

Boil lily and almonds in water, then add water and rice to cook into porridge. You can add a little sugar according to your taste to enhance the taste. If consumed once a day, it can help resolve phlegm, relieve cough and reduce throat discomfort after a week.

These foods can also clear lung heat, reduce phlegm and relieve cough: loquat, water chestnut, persimmon, winter melon, bamboo shoots, fig, monk fruit, honeysuckle, etc.

Diet therapy can only play a relieving role. If you want to completely solve the problem of being unable to cough up phlegm, you need to take the right medicine. For example, if it is caused by spleen deficiency, you need to focus on regulating the spleen deficiency. If it is caused by chronic pharyngitis, you need to treat chronic pharyngitis in time.