How to eat Chuanbei for better cough relief

Chuanbei is a relatively common Chinese medicine. Its most obvious effect is that it moistens the lungs and relieves coughs. You can usually use Chuanbei to make some foods to achieve certain therapeutic effects. For example, you can stew partridge with Chuanbei, or take Chuanbei powder, which have the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving coughs and reducing phlegm. It has good therapeutic and health-care effects for people with long-term coughs or bronchitis.

Partridge stewed with Fritillaria cirrhosa

Partridge stewed with almonds and Sichuan fritillaria (both almonds and Sichuan fritillaria should be ground into powder)

Ingredients: 9 grams of almonds, 6 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa, 4 partridges (about 900 grams net), 100 grams of lean meat, 3 grams of scallops, 4 cups of water, and 4 slices of ginger.

Method: Boil the partridge and lean meat with sliced ​​ginger, then put them into a stewing pot together with scallops, apricot kernels and Fritillaria cirrhosa, add water and cover. Stew over high heat for 20 minutes, then simmer over low heat for two hours.

Efficacy: Almonds can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm, relieve cough and asthma; Sichuan Fritillary Bulbs can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm, clear away heat and relieve cough; partridge can nourish the middle, eliminate phlegm, stimulate appetite and harmonize the stomach. This soup is an excellent food therapy for clearing and moistening the lungs, and can be used for chronic bronchitis, whooping cough in children and other diseases.

How to take Chuanbei powder

1. Slice the pear (fruit), smash the Fritillaria cirrhosa into powder, put them in water and then pour in the Fritillaria cirrhosa and cook them together for 30-40 minutes. Drink the pear and soup together. It is best to add some rock sugar or honey (because rock sugar is cool in nature and honey has the effect of moistening the lungs).

2. Use a red pear, remove the top of the pear, put the Fritillaria cirrhosa in it and cover it, cook it together with 30 grams of Imperata root and 15 grams of dried tangerine peel. When the pear is cooked, eat the pear and Fritillaria cirrhosa together and drink the juice together.

3. Take the Fritillaria cirrhosa powder directly with boiled water.

4. For chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma. You can grind Fritillaria cirrhosa + Gecko + American ginseng into powder and put it into capsules before an attack occurs for prevention.

The most commonly used Fritillaria cough suppressant

The following introduces several of the most commonly used Fritillaria-based cough suppressants based on different added ingredients.

The main ingredients of Chuanbei loquat paste are Fritillaria cirrhosa and loquat leaves. It has the effects of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, relieving cough and asthma, regulating qi and resolving phlegm. It is mostly used for symptoms such as yin deficiency cough, uncomfortable sputum, dry throat and mouth caused by bronchitis. In addition, Chuanbei loquat paste also has a certain effect on preventing colds.