Cough refers to a kind of disease evidence with the main symptoms of lung qi reversal and sputum, which is one of the common lung diseases. Including acute, laborious bronchitis, bronchiectasis and other diseases in Western medicine.
Cough has two main types: external sensation and internal injury
External cough is caused by feeling the external evil of the six halves and the upward reversal of the lungs, mainly including wind cold certificate, wind and heat certificate and dry heat certificate;
Internal injury cough due to internal organ dysfunction, lung qi upward reversal caused, there are mainly sputum wet evidence, sputum fever evidence, lung yin deficiency evidence and lung qi deficiency cold evidence four kinds.
External cough bullying and internal injury cough can affect each other and cause and effect each other.
In the case of mild disease, dietary therapy alone can be used; In severe cases, it can be combined with drug therapy. In addition, dietary taboos are also closely related to the treatment of this disease.
〔General Diet〕
(1) It is advisable to light vegetables and fruits to protect the spleen and lungs.
(2) It is not advisable to greasy and sticky foods, so as not to help wet and produce phlegm and aggravate the disease.
(3) External cough should not be nourishing food, so as not to fall in love with evil.
(4) It is not advisable to be too salty, too sweet and spicy stimulating foods, so as not to stimulate or aggravate the nuclear cough.
(5) Avoid alcohol so as not to aggravate the condition.
1. External cough
1. Wind chill cough
[Main manifestations] cough and phlegm, nasal congestion and runny nose, headache, cold and fever, no sweat, thin white tongue, floating or tight pulse.
[Dietary therapy principle] loosen the wind and cold, publicize the lungs and relieve cough.
[Therapeutic food] ginger, green onion white, perilla leaves, sweet almonds, platycodon, orange peel, etc.
〔Dietary Recipes〕
(1) Ginger apricot porridge. Ginger, sweet almonds, japonica rice, boiled porridge. For mild illness of cold cough.
(2) Shallot white tangerine peel soup. Shallot white, tangerine peel, brown sugar, boiled soup. It is used for cold cough, coughing up sputum.
〔Dietary taboos〕
(1) It is advisable to make soup and porridge hot food to facilitate sweating and dispel evil spirits.
(2) It is not advisable to be cold, greasy, sticky, pickled vegetables and sour foods, so as not to fall in love with evil.
2, wind and heat
[Main manifestations] cough is thick, cough is good?, phlegm is yellow, sore throat and thirst, runny yellow, headache, hot body, bad wind sweating, thin yellow tongue, pulse like floating number.
[Dietary therapy principle] Liu Dare wind and heat, clear the lungs and relieve cough.
[Therapeutic food] mulberry leaves, chrysanthemums, olives, loquats, pears, monk fruit, sweet almonds
(1) Mulberry apricot soup. Mulberry leaves, sweet almonds, boiled soup. For the onset of wind fever cough.
(2) Loquat porridge. Loquat, sago, sugar, boiled porridge. For wind fever cough.
(1) Eat fresh fruit directly to clear the heat and moisturize the lungs.
(2) Do not use spicy and stimulating foods to avoid irritating cough.
3. The wind is dry and dry
[Main manifestations] dry cough phlegm is less, phlegm is not easy, dry throat, headache, slight cold, body heat, thin yellow tongue, dry and less jin, pulse like floating number. Mostly occurs in autumn.
[Dietary therapy principle] Liu Feng clears the lungs, moisturizes and relieves cough.
[Therapeutic food] mulberry leaves, chrysanthemums, loquats, persimmon cakes, pears, rock sugar, sweet almonds, etc.
(1) Almond porridge. Sweet almonds, stalk rice, rock sugar, boiled porridge. It is used for windy cough, dry cough with less sputum and dry stools.
(2) Pear breeding. Sydney pear, honey, decoction paste. Use for dry cough, fatigue with blood.
(Dietary taboos〕
(1) It is advisable to eat fresh fruits to stop the swelling of the lungs with profits.
(2) It is not advisable to fry dry foods, so as not to hurt the fire and aggravate the condition
(2) Cough from internal injuries
1. Wet cough with sputum
[Main manifestations] cough phlegm more, phlegm thick white, cough in the morning or after meals, cough more phlegm, chest tightness, less food and sluggishness, body drowsiness, tongue flogging white and greasy, pulse like slippery.
[Dietary therapy principle] Healthy spleen dry and wet, fatigue and cough.
[Therapeutic food] tangerine peel, poria sativa, orange stalk, radish, sand kernel, orange cake, etc.
[Recipes for boils]
(1) Orange peel porridge. Orange peel, japonica rice, boiled porridge. It is used for phlegm wet coughing, chest tightness, less food and sluggishness.
(2) Sand kernels and radish scattered. Sand kernels, radish, grinding powder to serve. For sputum wet cough, nausea and vomiting, abdominal distention and stuffiness.
(1) It is advisable to eat a light diet to take care of the spleen and stomach.
(2) Fat glycerin and sticky foods should not be used to avoid hindering the spleen and helping to damp and produce phlegm.
2. Fatigue, heat and tenderness
[Main manifestations] Cough sound thick, thick yellow sputum, coughing unpleasant, or hemoptysis sputum, shortness of breath chest full, cough cause chest pain, hot thirst, yellow urine color, red tongue, yellow moss, pulse slip number.
[Dietary therapy principle] clear the heat and soothe the lungs, dissolve phlegm and relieve cough.
[Therapeutic food] loquat, jellyfish, winter melon, loofah, tofu, bamboo shoots, radish, cabbage, artemisia, monk fruit, water chestnut, etc.
(1) Snow soup. Jellyfish, watercress, boiling soup. For sputum hot cough, constipation knots.
(2) Monk fruit stew. Monk fruit, pork essence, rock sugar, stew. For sputum fire cough.
(1) It is advisable to eat fresh vegetables to clear heat and dissolve phlegm.
(2) It is not advisable to be spicy and greasy foods, so as not to help with heptogenic heat.
3. Lung yin deficiency cough
[Main manifestations] long cough dry cough, less viscous sputum, or sputum with blood, dry mouth and throat, hoarse voice, red tongue less moss, fine pulses.
[Dietary therapy principle] nourishes the yin and moisturizes the lungs, dissolves phlegm and relieves cough.
[Therapeutic food] lilies, white fungus, pears, milk, eggs, almonds, honey, yam, persimmon cakes, white duck meat, anchovies, etc.
(1) Rock sugar stewed lilies. Rock sugar, lilies, stews. It is used for yin deficiency cough, hemoptysis.
(2) Cordyceps whole duck. Cordyceps sinensis, male duck meat, steamed. It is used for hypochondria, hemoptysis.
(1) It is advisable to clean and moisturize the lungs to help supplement the yin and moisturize the lungs.
(2) It is not advisable to be spicy and dry food, so as not to hurt the yin and help heat.
4. Lung qi deficiency and cold cough
[Main manifestations] long cough weakness, phlegm is more sparse, tired and lazy, face? White, wind-weary, self-perspiring, pale white tongue, weak veins.
[The principle of boils] to replenish lung qi, dissolve phlegm and relieve cough.
[Food to be eaten] walnut kernels, dried ginger, ginseng, chestnuts, lamb, pork lung, radish, almonds, ginkgo biloba, etc.
(1) Radish ginger lamb broth. White radish, ginger, lamb, boiled soup. It is used for cold cough, cold and cold.
(2) Pork lung apricot soup. Pork lung, radish, almonds, boiled soup. For lung weakness cough.
(1) It is advisable to supplement the diet warmly to facilitate the replenishment of lung qi.
(2) It is not advisable to produce cold and cold foods, so as not to damage the lungs.
〔Unilateral Inspection〕
(1) Green onion and pear soup. Shallots, pears, sugar, stew. For chronic tracheitis, colds.
(2) Brown sugar stewed tofu. Brown sugar, tofu, stew. For chronic cough.
(3) Pearl jade two treasure porridge. Yam, frost cake, stalk rice, boiled porridge. It is used for lung and spleen yin deficiency, diet reduction, hypothermia and fatigue and all yin deficiency evidence.
(4) Egg soy milk drink. Boiling bean racks to brew eggs. For long-term cough.
(5) Wind marrow soup. Pine nuts, walnut kernels, honey, boiled soup. For lung dry cough.
(6) Chestnut stew. Chestnuts, lean pork, stew. For tracheitis.
(7) Ginger vinegar carp soup. Carp, ginger, vinegar, boiled soup. It is used for upper breathing, and the chest is full of asthma.
(8) Sugarcane porridge. Sugarcane juice, sorghum rice, boiled porridge. For fever cough.
(9) Radish goose broth. Radish, goose meat, seasoned stew. For yin deficiency cough.
(Source: Source of knowledge in the text, TCM network and network synthesis, picture from the network)