What should I do if I have a cough for a month?

It is well known that cough is a typical respiratory disease. Cold, fever or foreign body stimulation may cause cough. Generally, the symptoms of cough can be relieved within 3-5 days as long as the treatment is appropriate. If the cough symptoms cannot be relieved for a long time after treatment, you should be particularly careful whether it will develop into tuberculosis or other respiratory diseases. So how to solve the problem of long-term cough?

1. Water chestnut and lily soup

Ingredients: 30 grams of water chestnuts (water chestnuts), 1 gram of lily, 1 pear, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Preparation and administration: Wash, peel and mash the water chestnuts, wash and chop the pears with skin and remove the cores, wash the lilies, mix the three, add water and boil, then add appropriate amount of rock sugar and cook until cooked and the soup is thick. Serve warm.

Efficacy and indications: Water chestnuts are sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature. They can clear away heat and promote fluid production, cool blood and detoxify, and resolve phlegm and eliminate accumulation. They contain starch, protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin C and water chestnut. Water chestnut has inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Pears can clear away heat and promote fluid production, moisten dryness and resolve phlegm; lilies can moisten the lungs and relieve coughs. The combination of the three can nourish yin and moisten dryness, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Treats cough due to phlegm heat, yellow and thick phlegm, and sore throat. Used for infants with chronic tracheitis and phlegm-heat symptoms. Note: It is not suitable for patients with spleen deficiency, loose stools, and cough with thin sputum. It is not recommended for infants with blood deficiency and weak constitution.

2. Steamed pear with Fritillaria cirrhosa

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, 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.