Recently, the seasons of spring and summer have changed, hot and cold alternately, the temperature fluctuates, and more and more people have colds and coughs. In addition to injections and medicines, in fact, it can also be improved through daily dietary therapy. So what foods are good for coughing?
Try our traditional food, sea buckthorn.
Sea buckthorn, as you know by its name, is associated with the desert. Indeed, the vitality of sea buckthorn is very tenacious, and it can adapt to all kinds of barren environments, sandy soil, alkaline soil can grow. Genghis Khan also regarded sea buckthorn as a panacea given by the "heavens", and named it "appetizing spleen longevity fruit" and "holy fruit".
It's a small one, and it has a very big effect
At a very early age, sea buckthorn was found to be incorporated into medicine. In the Qing Dynasty, the Tibetan medicine classic Jingzhu Materia Medica, which is as famous as the Compendium of Materia Medica, made a more detailed record of the medicinal use of sea buckthorn. The book believes that "sea buckthorn is good for the lungs and cough, invigorates blood circulation and dispels blood stasis, benefits the heart and blood vessels, eliminates phlegm and turbidity, and nourishes the human blood." ”
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sea buckthorn is sour, astringent, warm in nature, and returns to the lung meridian, which has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, dissolving phlegm and relieving asthma.
Modern medical research believes that the vitamin C content of sea buckthorn fruit is 8 times that of kiwifruit, 80 times that of tomatoes, and 200 times that of apples, and it is a veritable "king of vitamin C".
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Promote blood circulation and protect blood vessels
Flavonoids and other phenolic compounds, β sitosterol, betaine and other active substances in sea buckthorn can prevent atherosclerosis, reduce blood viscosity, improve blood circulation, reduce blood cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein, remove deposits in blood vessel walls, and restore blood vessel elasticity.
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Eliminate phlegm and cough
Sea buckthorn has the effect of relieving cough and asthma, relieving lungs and reducing phlegm in traditional medical theories, because it is rich in flavonoids, and has a good regulatory effect on chronic pharyngitis, bronchitis, sore throat, asthma, cough and phlegm and other respiratory diseases.
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Boosts immunity
"Shennong's Materia Medica" records that "sea buckthorn is the food of the immortals". Because the anthocyanins in sea buckthorn are powerful free radical scavengers, they can enhance the body's self-protection ability.
Moreover, sea buckthorn contains a large amount of vitamin C, vitamin E, carotenoids, SOD, and flavonoids of sea buckthorn, which have strong antioxidant effects, have obvious regulatory effects on humoral immunity and cellular immunity, and also have certain anti-allergic effects.
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Stomach and intestines are nourished
Because sea buckthorn contains a large number of amino acids, organic acids and other nutrients, it can promote the secretion of gastric acid and gastric juice. It has a good improvement effect on indigestion, abdominal distension and pain, gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcer, enteritis, chronic constipation and other conditions.
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Protects the liver
Sea buckthorn contains organic acids such as malic acid and oxalic acid, which has the effect of alleviating the toxicity of antibiotics and other drugs, promoting the healing of damaged liver cells, reducing aminotransferases, and protecting the liver.
How you eat it is important
There are many ways to eat sea buckthorn, and for relieving cough, it is very good to eat fresh sea buckthorn fruit directly. You can also juice and drink, wash about 100 grams of sea buckthorn, and then mash it into juice with a juicer or manually, and you can put white sugar or honey to neutralize the taste.
Of course, it also makes delicious dishes.
Sea buckthorn white fungus soup
Ingredients: 150g of sea buckthorn juice, 20g of dried white fungus, 80g of osmanthus nectar
Preparation: Wash the dried white fungus, remove the stem, change the small pieces, stew it in a clean pot, and put it into the soup pot. Add sea buckthorn juice and osmanthus nectar and mix well.
Efficacy: Nourish yin and moisten the lungs, relieve cough and phlegm, reduce lipids and nourish the stomach, clear away heat and generate energy.
Sea buckthorn pumpkin yam
Ingredients: long yam, sea buckthorn, pumpkin, orange juice, salt
Method:
1. Pumpkin is steamed and set aside, and sea buckthorn juice is set aside.
2. Peel the long yam, cut it into long strips, and steam for 10 minutes.
3. Add sea buckthorn juice, pumpkin juice and orange juice to an appropriate amount of salt, mix thoroughly, pour on the steamed long yam, and put it on a plate.
Tomato and sea buckthorn soup
Ingredients: 250g tomatoes, 100g sea buckthorn juice, 50g acacia nectar
Production: After the tomatoes are scalded with boiling water, peeled, sliced, put an appropriate amount of water in the net pot and boiling water, boil the tomato slices, put sea buckthorn juice and acacia nectar and mix well, and it is ready.
Efficacy: Clearing heat and quenching thirst, strengthening the stomach and eliminating food, lowering fat and moistening the intestines.
Note: Sea buckthorn should not be taken with other tonic herbs, otherwise it will have varying degrees of side effects.