Foods that help to produce phlegm and dampness have good effects

Chinese medicine has many dietary therapies, and dietary therapy does play a big role in treating diseases. Foods that help to produce phlegm and dampness can help people reduce coughing and phlegm, and some can even cure diseases that cannot be cured by medicine. So what are the foods that help to produce phlegm and dampness?

Which foods are likely to cause phlegm and dampness?

Foods that help produce phlegm and dampness: red dates, peanuts, milk, mangoes, chocolate, wine, crabs, shrimps, durian, leeks, as well as fatty meat, sweets, fried foods, etc.

The key points of diagnosis of this syndrome are cough with abundant sticky white sputum that is easy to cough up. When the spleen is deficient and the distribution of fluid is abnormal, water and moisture condense into phlegm, which soaks into the lungs. Or when cold and dampness invade the lungs from the outside and cause dysfunction in the distribution of fluid, the lungs cannot distribute fluid, and water accumulates and becomes phlegm and dampness, which block the lungs, causing the lung qi to rise up, resulting in coughing with a lot of phlegm, which is sticky, white and easy to cough up. A pale tongue with a greasy white coating and a slippery pulse are signs of internal obstruction by phlegm and dampness.

People with phlegm-dampness constitution should pay attention to strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness. They can boil some hawthorn and tangerine peel in water or cook porridge with coix seed for conditioning. The more you eat, the heavier the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, the more damage it suffers, and the more phlegm is produced. Therefore, clinically, it is common to see that fat children are more likely to cough. Eating too much or frequently eating high-nutrition, high-protein greasy food can also easily cause coughing. Because most of these foods are easy to "cause heat", and they are also foods that produce dampness and phlegm. The sweets or cold drinks that children like to eat are also foods that produce dampness and phlegm.

You should not eat too much sugar either. Sugar is contained in various foods all the time. Once you eat more, the burden on the gastrointestinal tract will increase, affecting the stomach's digestion. The gastrointestinal tract cannot convert these foods into nutrients, and they will be converted into phlegm. This is especially true if you eat too much sweets. In other words, the more sweets you eat, the greater the burden on your gastrointestinal tract, the more damage it suffers, and the more phlegm is produced.