What can I eat to get better quickly from lung heat and cough? Recommended 7 treatment methods

Lung heat cough is a common cough caused by lung fire, and the incidence rate is higher in autumn. Dry weather causes upper respiratory tract infections, coughs and sputum. Eating more light foods and foods that clear away heat and reduce phlegm can effectively help patients relieve their symptoms. So what can you eat to get better quickly from lung heat and cough?

1. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment

Treatment should be aimed at clearing lung fire, promoting lung function and relieving asthma, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. The traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions include Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang, Platycodon Decoction, Wei Jing Tang, and Xie Bai San. The ready-made medicines include honey-refined Fritillaria cirrhosa loquat paste, snake gall loquat paste, and children's lung heat, cough and asthma oral liquid.

2. Diet therapy

(1) Pears are cool in nature, sweet in taste, and can clear away heat and resolve phlegm, making them suitable for people with hot coughs. After peeling the pears, take out the core, add Sichuan Fritillary Powder, and stew them in water. Eat one pear twice a day.

(2) Luohan fruit can clear the lungs and relieve cough. It is suitable for people with cough caused by lung heat or wind heat. You can use 1 monk fruit and persimmon, boil them in water and drink them.

(3) Persimmons are cold in nature and can clear away heat, eliminate phlegm, and relieve coughs, so they are suitable for people with hot coughs. According to modern pharmacological experiments, persimmons do have expectorant and antitussive effects, and the expectorant effect is stronger than the antitussive effect.

(4) Loquat is cool in nature, sweet in taste, and can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan" says: "Loquat can cure cough and spitting." It is suitable for people with hot cough and spitting yellow purulent sputum.

(5) Figs can clear away heat, resolve phlegm, and regulate qi, and are suitable for people with wind-heat type cough, phlegm, and chest tightness. "Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine" also records the local folk remedies for treating lung heat cough and hoarseness by using figs, decocted in water and mixed with rock sugar.

(6) Water chestnuts can resolve phlegm and clear away heat, and are especially suitable for those with fever-related cough and sputum. You can use fresh water chestnuts each time, wash and peel them, blanch them in boiling water, and eat them raw, once in the morning and once in the evening, for 3 to 5 days.

(7) Winter melon is cool in nature and can eliminate phlegm and clear away heat. "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan" says: "Winter melon moistens the lungs, eliminates heat and phlegm, and relieves coughs." People who have wind-heat coughs or lung-heat coughs should choose to drink winter melon stewed soup.

Give a high-calorie, low-fat, easily digestible light diet, avoid spicy, irritating and fried foods, drink plenty of water, and eat more vegetables and fruits rich in vitamins. Ensure sufficient rest time, wear loose clothes and don't wear too thick clothes, maintain indoor ventilation and appropriate temperature and humidity, avoid cold air irritants and inhalation of smoke, etc. Patients are encouraged to participate in appropriate physical activities, avoid strenuous exercise, improve their physical fitness, and enhance their immunity and adaptability to the environment.

Coughing is a protective respiratory reflex action of the human body to clear secretions or foreign objects in the respiratory tract. Although it has its upside, severe and prolonged coughing can lead to respiratory bleeding. Correctly distinguish between general cough and cough variant asthma to prevent misdiagnosis. Treatment of cough should be based on different types of cough. Both Western and Chinese medicine can be used, but diet therapy is the best. Traditional Chinese Medicine

Cough is caused by the six external evils and internal injuries of the internal organs, which affect the lungs and cause sounds and phlegm. See "Suwen·The Formation of the Five Internal Organs". "Suwen Bingji Qi Yi Bao Ming Ji" says: "Coughing is a sound without phlegm, which is caused by the injury of lung qi and the inability to clear it. Coughing is a sound without phlegm, which is caused by the movement of spleen dampness and the formation of phlegm. Coughing is a sound with phlegm, which is caused by the injury of lung qi and the movement of spleen dampness, and the cough turns into cough."

It is caused by external evil invading the lungs, or internal injuries to the internal organs, affecting the lungs.

Western medicine

Cough is a protective respiratory reflex action of the human body. The cough reflex can effectively clear secretions in the respiratory tract or foreign objects that enter the airway. But coughing also has its disadvantages. Severe coughing can lead to respiratory bleeding. If long-term, frequent and severe coughing affects work and rest, and even causes sore throat, hoarseness and respiratory muscle pain, it is a pathological phenomenon.

The action of coughing: Stimuli from the respiratory system and organs outside the respiratory system (such as the brain, ears, and internal organs) are transmitted through the sensory nerve fibers of the vagus nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve, trigeminal nerve, and skin. It is transmitted to the pharyngeal muscles, glottis, diaphragm and other respiratory muscles through the inferior laryngeal nerve, phrenic nerve and spinal nerve respectively, causing coughing. The coughing action begins with a quick and short inhalation, the diaphragm descends, the glottis closes quickly, and the respiratory muscles and abdominal muscles contract quickly, causing the intrapulmonary pressure to rise rapidly; then the glottis opens suddenly, and the high-pressure airflow in the lungs jets out, hitting the glottis crack and causing a coughing action and special sound, and secretions or foreign objects in the respiratory tract are also discharged.