Is night cough a cold cough or a hot cough?

In real life, coughing is a common lung disease for many people. Coughing will not only affect normal life, but also easily lead to some lung diseases. Many people cough at night but not during the day. Night is the time when the cold is heavier, so night coughing is a cold cough and needs to be treated in time.

Is a night cough a cold cough or a hot cough?

Coughing during the day indicates fire in the heart, and coughing at night indicates coldness on the back, so coughing at night is mostly caused by too much cold, or when the symptoms of coughing appear as dry and itchy throat, coughing is more frequent, and the sputum is thin and foamy, for such diseases, you should pay attention to taking more expectorant, cough-relieving and lung-moisturizing medicines and foods to relieve the symptoms. You should pay attention to drinking more water, especially some cough-relieving and lung-moisturizing foods such as rock sugar pear water and mung bean water, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, do not eat irritating foods, and do not eat mutton and other irritating foods.

What to eat to cure cough at night

1. Rock sugar

Rock sugar can "relieve cough and eliminate phlegm" and is best boiled in water and drunk or chewed and eaten. Therefore, it is used in many cough-relieving prescriptions.

Rock sugar, white sugar and brown sugar have different effects. Brown sugar has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is suitable for women during menstruation or after childbirth; while rock sugar and white sugar can clear away heat, reduce inflammation, remove internal heat, stop hot coughs, and resolve thick phlegm. People who have coughs can eat rock sugar, which has the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving coughs.

2. Sydney

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records that pears are beneficial and their nature is to flow downward smoothly. It has the effects of treating wind-heat, moistening the lungs, cooling the heart, eliminating phlegm, reducing fire, and detoxifying.

Snow pear has the effect of moistening the lungs, clearing dryness, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. Therefore, it is effective for patients with acute bronchitis and upper respiratory tract infection who suffer from dry throat, itching, pain, hoarseness, thick phlegm, constipation and red urine.

Snow pears can be eaten raw, steamed, or made into soups and porridge. However, snow pears are cold in nature, so it is not advisable to eat too much at one time. Especially those with weak spleen and stomach, cold abdominal pain and blood deficiency should not eat too much, as eating too much can easily damage the spleen and stomach.

Recipe recommendation: [Snow pear with rock sugar]

Ingredients: 700g snow pear (try to choose juicy and thin-skinned ones), 50g rock sugar, 2000ml water.

Steps:

① Wash, peel and cut the pear into pieces. Add a small amount of water to the pot, just enough to cover the pears, put the pears in and bring to a boil over high heat.

② Add rock sugar, turn to medium heat, and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes after the rock sugar is completely melted. Turn off the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes.

Tips:

① Rock sugar snow pear can only be more effective in treating coughs if it is made with real snow pears. There is a kind of crown pear that is very similar to the snow pear. You should be careful to identify it when buying snow pears.

② If you add Fritillaria cirrhosa to rock sugar and snow pear and cook them together, the effect of treating wind-heat cough will be better.