How to stop coughing

There are many reasons for coughing. Although coughing is not a serious disease, sometimes it just won’t go away. Some friends cough for a month. Coughing is generally caused by upper respiratory tract infection and bronchitis. In addition, acute laryngitis and pneumonia may also cause coughing. It is very easy to treat cough because we have many folk methods to relieve cough.

To treat cough, we can use traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine to stop coughing. In addition, some folk diet therapy methods can also play a good role in stopping coughing.

1. Radish and scallion white can treat cold and cough

Preparation method: 1 radish, 6 scallions, 15 grams of ginger. Use three bowls of water to boil the radish first, then add the scallions and ginger. Cook into a bowl of soup and drink it all at once, including the residue.

Applicable: Clearing away lung qi and relieving exterior symptoms, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Treats wind-cold cough, foamy sputum, chills, fatigue and body aches, etc.

2. Brown sugar, ginger and jujube soup for cold and cough

Preparation method: 30 grams of brown sugar, 15 grams of fresh ginger, and 30 grams of red dates. Boil three bowls of water until half of the liquid is boiled, drink it all at once, and you will be cured when you start sweating slightly.

Applicable to: dispel wind and cold. It is used to treat colds and coughs, stomach pain caused by cold, diarrhea caused by postpartum cold, and aversion to the yin, etc.

3. Coriander soup relieves colds and coughs

Preparation method: 30 grams of coriander, 30 grams of maltose, and 100 grams of rice. Wash the rice first and add water to boil the soup. Take three tablespoons of rice soup, stir with coriander and malt sugar, then steam for 10 minutes. Drink it all at once while it is hot, and be careful to avoid wind and cold.

Applicable: Inducing sweating to clear the surface, treating cough caused by colds and flu.

4. White radish and honey can treat cold and cough

Preparation method: 1 large white radish, 30 grams of honey, 5 white peppercorns, and 2 grams of ephedra. Wash the radish, slice it, put it in a bowl, pour in honey, white pepper, ephedra, etc., steam it for half an hour, and drink it while it is hot. You will recover when you sweat in bed.

Applicable: Inducing sweat and dispelling cold, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, treating cough caused by wind and cold.

5. Steamed Fritillaria Softshell Turtle Nourishes Yin and Strengthens the Lungs

Preparation method: 5 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa, 1 turtle (about 500 grams), 1 kilogram of chicken broth, appropriate amounts of onion, ginger, pepper, cooking wine and salt. Kill the turtle, remove its head and internal organs, and cut into pieces for later use. Put the turtle pieces in a steaming pot, add Fritillaria, salt, cooking wine, pepper, onion and ginger, and steam for about 1 hour. Serve while hot.

Applicable: Nourishing yin and clearing heat, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, and reducing fever. Treats yin deficiency cough and asthma, low fever, night sweats, etc.

6. Fresh pear and Fritillaria for cough and lung abscess

Preparation method: 500 grams of fresh pears, 6 grams of Fritillaria powder, and 30 grams of white sugar. Peel the pear, split it in half, remove the core, fill it with ground Fritillaria and sugar, put it in a bowl and steam it until cooked. Eat in the morning and evening.

Applicable: Clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, dispersing stagnation and relieving exterior symptoms. It is used to treat cough or lung abscess, with symptoms including chest pain, chills, cough, fever, dry mouth, dry throat, yellow and smelly sputum or sputum with blood and pus.

7. Rock sugar bird's nest porridge treats chronic cough due to lung deficiency

Preparation method: 10 grams of bird's nest, 100 grams of rice, 50 grams of rock sugar. Wash the rice and put it into the pot. Add three bowls of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat. Put the soaked and purified bird's nest into a pot and boil it with rice for about 1 hour. Add rock sugar and let it melt.

Applicable: Nourishes yin and moistens the lungs, relieves cough and resolves phlegm, treats chronic cough due to lung deficiency and cough and asthma that damages yin.

8. Bird's nest and pear nourish the lung yin

Preparation method: 5 grams of bird's nest (soaked in water), 2 white pears, 10 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa, and 5 grams of rock sugar. Dig out the core of the white pear, put the other three ingredients into the pear, cover it tightly, put it in a bowl, stew it in water and eat it.

Applicable: Nourishing yin and moistening dryness, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. Treats long-term cough with phlegm, shortness of breath and fatigue.

9. Radish and pepper relieve cough and expectorant

Preparation: 1 radish, 5 white peppercorns, 3 slices of ginger, and 1 slice of tangerine peel. Add water and boil for 30 minutes. Drink the soup twice a day.

Applicable: It can relieve gas and eliminate phlegm, and treat cough with excessive phlegm.

10. Soy milk nourishes the lungs, soothes coughs and reduces phlegm

Method: Soak soybeans, grind the juice, boil it and add rock sugar to drink. Drink 1 bowl on an empty stomach every morning.

Applicable: Strengthens the spleen and relieves fullness, moisturizes dryness and reduces water retention; clears the lungs and relieves cough, and resolves phlegm. It is used to treat malnutrition, emaciation, lung heat and cough, etc.

Above we introduced what cough is. We know that cough can be caused by many reasons. There are many ways to treat cough. We recommend that you use some of the folk dietary therapy methods introduced above. These methods use foods that can be seen in daily life, but they are very effective in treating cough.