Cold and cough remedies

Colds and coughs are common in life, and many people don’t take them seriously. They usually get better in a few days, and there is no need to see a doctor, which wastes time and energy. But it is a big mistake to think so. Any disease will harm your health, especially common diseases like colds and coughs. If they don't get better within half a month and are not treated in time, they will eventually develop into a serious illness. What are the folk remedies for cold and cough?

In life, we are prone to catching colds. For example, we catch colds when we wear less clothes on rainy days. For example, in summer, people prefer to use air conditioning. If they stay indoors for a long time, they will go out suddenly. This will make it easier to catch colds and coughs. There are also sudden changes in weather and environmental factors. What are some folk remedies for colds and coughs?

During a cold, whether it is a cold caused by wind or heat, avoid eating all nourishing, greasy, and sour foods, such as pork, duck, chicken, lamb, glutinous rice, astragalus, polygonatum, ophiopogon, ginseng, placenta, donkey-hide gelatin, various sea fish, shrimp, crab, longan meat, pomegranate, black plum, and various sticky desserts.

People with a cold should also avoid eating the above-mentioned cold foods, such as persimmons, persimmon cakes, tofu, mung bean sprouts, snails, snails, clam meat, cockle meat, raw radish, raw lotus root, raw sweet potato, raw melon, raw pear, raw and cold water chestnuts, monk fruit, cold tea, chrysanthemum brain, mint, honeysuckle, white chrysanthemum, and puffed sea.

People with wind-heat cold should also avoid eating ginger, pepper, cinnamon, fennel, cloves, amomum villosum, white wine, cordyceps sinensis, etc.

What to eat and what not to eat when you have a cold

Cold, commonly known as cold. Depending on the season of onset or symptoms, Chinese medicine usually divides colds into two types: wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds. Wind-cold colds are often manifested by fever, fear of cold, headache, body aches, nasal congestion and runny nose, cough with white sticky sputum, and a thin white tongue coating; wind-heat colds are often manifested by fever, fear of cold, headache, sore throat, cough with yellow, thick, purulent sputum, and a slightly yellow tongue coating. As for the types of colds, such as Qi deficiency colds, Yin deficiency colds, Yang deficiency colds, rheumatic colds, and summer heat and dampness colds.

Home remedies for treating cold and cough :

Add a piece of iron tree leaf and 30 grams of peanuts to water and boil for 15 minutes. After boiling, pour into a bowl, add 30 grams of honey, stir well, take before meals, three times a day, and you will generally be cured after three days.

There are also some small tips :

1. Radish and scallion can treat cold and cough. 1 radish, 6 scallions and 15 grams of ginger. Use three bowls of water to boil the radish first, then add the scallion and ginger, and cook until there is one bowl of soup left. Drink it all at once, including the residue. It can clear the lungs and relieve exterior symptoms, resolve phlegm and relieve cough; it can treat wind-cold cough, foamy sputum, accompanied by chills, fatigue and body aches, etc.

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

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. Dispel wind and cold; treat cold and cough; stomach cold and stabbing pain; postpartum cold and diarrhea; aversion to Yin, etc.

3. Coriander soup for cold and cough

30 grams of coriander, 30 grams of maltose, and 100 grams of rice. Wash the rice first, add water to boil soup, take three tablespoons of rice soup and stir with coriander and malt sugar, then steam for 10 minutes. Take it all at once while it is hot, and be careful to avoid wind and cold; it can induce sweating and treat cough caused by colds.

4. White radish and honey can treat cold and cough

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. and steam it for half an hour. Drink it while it is hot. You will recover as you sweat in bed. It can induce sweating to dispel cold, reduce phlegm when coughing, and treat wind-cold cough.

5. Sheep honey paste treats consumptive cough and pulmonary tuberculosis

250 grams of cooked mutton fat, 250 grams of cooked mutton marrow, 250 grams of white sand honey, 100 milliliters of ginger juice, and 500 milliliters of Rehmannia glutinosa juice. Fry sheep fat until it boils; then add sheep marrow and bring it to a boil again; then add honey, rehmannia root, and ginger juice.

Keep stirring and simmer over low heat for several times until it becomes a paste. Take 1 spoonful of this medicine with warm wine on an empty stomach every day, or make it into ginger soup or porridge. It can nourish the lungs, remove wind and detoxify, treat fever caused by yin deficiency, bone steaming and fatigue fever, weakness and fatigue, cough and lung atrophy, and moisturize the lungs and skin.

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6. Fresh pear and Fritillaria for cough and lung abscess

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. Take it in the morning and evening to clear away heat and resolve phlegm, disperse stagnation and relieve exterior symptoms. It is used to treat cough or lung abscess, with symptoms such as chest pain, chills, cough, fever, dry mouth, dry throat, yellow and smelly phlegm or phlegm with blood and pus.

7. Drinking horse milk can clear away heat and stop coughing

300 ml of fresh mare's milk and appropriate amount of white sugar. Boil the mare's milk and add sugar when drinking. According to Tang Materia Medica, horse milk can quench thirst and treat fever, and has the effects of nourishing blood and promoting body fluid, moistening dryness and relieving cough. It has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on tuberculosis-induced cough and hot flashes.

Colds and coughs are minor illnesses, but if you don't pay attention to treatment, and delay it for a day, it's a day. If it doesn't get better after ten days or half a month, you must go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible, otherwise it will eventually develop into a serious illness. Especially if children have a cold and cough, parents must treat it as soon as possible. There are many folk remedies for colds and coughs, and they are all very effective. You may want to give them a try.