Is it serious to have cough and phlegm during confinement? Learn how to treat it at home

There may be a series of changes in the body right after giving birth. These changes must be handled with caution to prevent complications. Many people will cough and have phlegm during the confinement period. You must be careful with this symptom. Is it because of a cold or fever caused by the cold? If the cough is severe and there is a lot of phlegm, the first thing to do is to maintain a light diet and drink more soup and water. In addition, you should go to the hospital for corresponding examinations.

1. Radish and scallion for wind-cold cough: 1 radish, 6 scallions, 15 grams of ginger. Use 3 bowls of water to cook the radish first, then add the scallion and ginger, and cook until 1 bowl of soup is left. Take it all at once, including the residue. It can clear the lungs and relieve the symptoms, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. It can treat wind-cold cough, foamy phlegm, chills, fatigue and body aches, etc.

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

30g brown sugar, 15g fresh ginger, 30g red dates.

Boil three bowls of water until half of the liquid is boiled. Take it all at once. After taking it, you will sweat slightly and recover.

It can dispel wind and dissipate cold. It can treat cold and cough, stomach cold and stabbing pain, postpartum cold diarrhea, and aversion to yin, etc.

3. Coriander soup for cold and cough

30g coriander, 30g maltose, 100g rice.

First wash the rice and add water to boil. Take three tablespoons of rice soup, mix with coriander and maltose, and steam for 10 minutes. Take it all at once while it is hot, and be careful to avoid wind and cold.

Induce sweat and clear the surface. Treat cough caused by colds and flu.

4. White radish and honey can treat cold and cough

1 large white radish, 30 grams of honey, 5 white peppercorns, 2 grams of ephedra.

Wash the radish, slice it, put it in a bowl, add honey, white pepper, ephedra, etc., steam it for half an hour and drink it while it is hot. Lie in bed and sweat and you will recover.

It can induce sweating and dispel cold, relieve cough and resolve phlegm. It can treat wind-cold cough.

5. Sheep honey paste treats consumptive cough and pulmonary tuberculosis

250g cooked sheep fat, 250g cooked sheep marrow, 250g white sand honey, 100ml ginger juice, 500ml raw rehmannia juice.

Fry sheep fat until it boils; then add sheep marrow and boil again; then add honey, rehmannia root, ginger juice, stir constantly, simmer for several times over low heat until it becomes a paste. Take 1 spoonful of it with warm wine on an empty stomach every day, or make ginger soup or porridge.

It nourishes the lungs, removes wind and eliminates toxins. It treats fever due to yin deficiency, bone steaming and fatigue fever, weakness due to consumptive disease, cough and lung atrophy, and also has the effect of moistening the lungs and skin.