A long-term cough can cause respiratory tract bleeding and should never be taken lightly. In fact, there are many dietary therapy remedies for treating coughs, and their therapeutic effects can even surpass those of medication. Today, this article introduces six dietary therapy remedies to treat your cough without relying on medicine……
Braised Pear with Rock Sugar to resolve phlegm and stop coughing
Peel a fresh pear, cut it in half, remove the core, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, and steam it in a pot until soft. It is then ready to eat.
Tofu and Sugar to stop coughing, resolve phlegm, and relieve wheezing
500 grams of tofu, 100 grams each of brown sugar and white sugar. Hollow out a small space in the tofu, fill it with the brown and white sugar, place it in a bowl, and steam it over water for 30 minutes. Eat it all at once and take this remedy four times consecutively. It clears heat, promotes fluid generation, moistens dryness, and treats coughs with phlegm and wheezing.
Corn Silk and Tangerine Peel to treat cough
An appropriate amount of corn silk and tangerine peel. Decoct them together in water. Take twice daily. It stops coughing and resolves phlegm, treating coughs due to wind-cold and excessive phlegm.
Radish and Pork Lung Cough Soup
1 radish, 1 pork lung, 15 grams of almonds. Boil them together in water for 1 hour. Eat the meat and drink the soup. It clears heat and resolves phlegm, stops coughing and relieves wheezing, treating persistent coughs, excessive phlegm, and shortness of breath.
Peanut and Adenophora Soup to treat coughs with little phlegm
25 grams each of peanuts, ginkgo nuts, lily bulbs, and North Adenophora root, with an appropriate amount of rock sugar. Decoct the ingredients in water to extract the juice, add rock sugar, and take one dose daily. It moistens the lungs and resolves phlegm, treating persistent coughs with little phlegm, shortness of breath, and a dry throat.
Yellow Ginger and Rock Sugar to stop coughing and relieve wheezing
30 grams of Yellow Ginger (a Chinese herbal medicine), 50 grams of rock sugar. Wash the Yellow Ginger, soak it in cold water until softened, place it in a clay pot, add the rock sugar and an appropriate amount of water. Place the pot on a stove, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until the Yellow Ginger is completely soft. Take twice daily, eating the Yellow Ginger and drinking the soup. It clears the lungs, regulates the spleen, and nourishes essence. It is used to treat coughs due to lung dryness and deficiency, dry coughs with no phlegm, difficult expectoration, poor appetite, dry mouth, and kidney essence deficiency.