Tips for removing phlegm from the throat during pregnancy

Health status after pregnancy is given high attention, and any minor abnormalities in pregnant women may have major consequences. Many pregnant women have phlegm in their throats during pregnancy. Simply taking medicine is definitely not enough, as it may affect the fetus. You can try some tips to solve the problem. So, what are some tips for removing phlegm from the throat during pregnancy? Let’s take a look below.

Radish and green onion

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.

White Radish Honey

Preparation method: 1 large white radish, 30 grams of honey, 5 white peppercorns, and 2 grams of ephedra. Wash the radish, cut it into cubes, 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.

Fresh pear and Fritillaria

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.

Rock Sugar Bird's Nest Porridge

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.

Bird's Nest Pear

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.

Soy milk drink

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, moistens 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.