Is coughing in the morning and evening caused by heat or cold?

In daily life, a cold can easily lead to coughing symptoms, and coughs can be divided into hot coughs or cold coughs. Coughing in the morning and evening is also a common symptom. You can judge whether it is a hot cough or a cold cough by the symptoms of sputum and cough. Generally, cold coughs are prone to white sputum, hot coughs are prone to yellow sputum, and the sputum is relatively viscous.

Is the cough in the morning and evening a hot cough or a cold cough?

Cold cough: caused by the invasion of wind and cold, which causes the lung qi to fail to descend and rise, and is more common in winter and spring.

.Heat cough: Wind-heat invades the lungs, turns into heat inside, and the heat burns body fluids, causing the lungs to lose their ability to clear and purify themselves. It is more common in summer and autumn.

Symptoms of cold cough: thin, white, foamy sputum, headache, nasal congestion, clear runny nose, or accompanied by fear of cold, chills, no sweating, pale red tongue, thin white fur, and floating and tight pulse.

Symptoms of hot cough: yellow and thick sputum that is difficult to cough up, dry and painful throat, thirst, often accompanied by fever, headache, dizziness, red tongue, thin yellow tongue coating, and floating or rapid pulse.

Treatment for cold cough: The treatment should be to dispel wind and cold, promote lung function and relieve cough. You can choose to add or subtract ingredients from Sanao Decoction. Take 3 grams each of ephedra and licorice, 5 grams each of apricot kernel, schizonepeta, peucedanum, platycodon, perilla seed, fennel, tangerine peel, cinnamon twig, stemona, and scutellaria. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day. Chinese patent medicines include Xingsu cough syrup, Xiaoqinglong oral liquid, etc.

Care for cold cough: Keep the air in the room fresh, with appropriate temperature and humidity, and open windows regularly for ventilation. Pay attention to air disinfection, prohibit smoking indoors, and prevent the irritation of smoke and special odors. Pay attention to weather changes and add or remove clothes in time as the climate changes. When in an air-conditioned room, be sure to add more clothes to prevent catching cold and aggravating your cough. Don't drink beverages, especially in the summer.

Treatment of hot cough: The treatment should be to dispel wind and heat, promote lung function and relieve cough. You can choose Ma Xing Shi Gan Decoction with modifications. Take 3 grams each of ephedra and licorice, 10 grams of gypsum, 5 grams each of mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, almond, peucedanum, forsythia, dalis chinensis, fritillaria, platycodon, and bamboo shavings. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day. Chinese patent medicines include cough-relieving loquat syrup, snake gall and Fritillaria liquid, three snake gall and Fritillaria liquid, etc.

Care for hot coughs: Just like cold coughs, parents should maintain good hygiene in the baby’s room, keep the temperature moderate, and prevent irritation from smoke, dust, and special odors. Eat a light diet and avoid spicy food.

What fruits can I eat when I have a fever?

Pears are cool in nature, sweet in taste, can clear away heat and resolve phlegm, and are suitable for people with hot coughs. People usually peel the pears, take out the cores, add 1 to 3 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa powder, and stew them in water, twice a day, one pear each time. Or you can choose the method of the late famous doctor Pu Fuzhou, use 3-5 grams of the Chinese medicine ephedra, mash or pound it, then put it into the heart of the pear and steam it for consumption.

Luo Han Guo can clear the lungs and relieve cough, and is suitable for people with lung heat cough and wind heat cough. You can use 1 monk fruit and 15 grams of persimmon cake, boil them in water and drink them.

Persimmon is cold in nature and can clear away heat, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, so it is suitable for people with hot cough. According to modern pharmacological experiments, persimmons do have expectorant and antitussive effects, and the expectorant effect is stronger than the antitussive effect.

Loquat is cool in nature, sweet in taste, and can moisten the lungs, reduce phlegm and relieve cough. It is suitable for people with hot cough and yellow pus sputum.

Figs can clear away heat, resolve phlegm, and regulate qi, and are suitable for people with wind-heat type cough, excessive phlegm, and chest tightness. To treat lung heat, cough and hoarseness, use 15 grams of figs, decoct in water and add rock sugar for drinking.

Water chestnuts can resolve phlegm and clear away heat, and are especially suitable for people with hot cough and spitting of pus and sputum. Each time, you can use 250 grams of fresh water chestnuts, wash and peel them, blanch them in boiling water, and eat them raw, once in the morning and once in the evening, for 3 to 5 days.

Winter melon is cool in nature and can eliminate phlegm and clear away heat. Anyone who suffers from wind-heat cough or lung-heat cough should choose to drink winter melon stewed soup.

Winter melon seeds are sweet and cool in nature, and can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and clear away heat. They are commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat phlegm-heat cough. Therefore, they are especially suitable for people with lung heat cough, lobar pneumonia, lung abscess (lung abscess), bronchiectasis, and other conditions that cause cough and spitting of yellow purulent sputum.

Luffa is good at clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, and is especially suitable for people with hot coughs with a lot of phlegm and thick yellow phlegm. This is because the loofah contains a saponin in its plant mucus, which has the effect of removing phlegm and reducing phlegm. People who have coughs due to lung heat or wind-heat invading the lungs, and often spit out pus and phlegm, should drink a decoction of loofah, or even cook the loofah with tofu, which has the benefits of clearing phlegm, opening the chest and diaphragm.