Eat more pears for sore throat, tangerines for a sore throat, and apricots or bananas for a dry cough.
Asthma, sore throat, phlegm... Sudden coughing symptoms can often catch people off guard. In fact, besides taking medication for the specific symptoms, fruits can also have unexpected effects to help alleviate your cough.
If you have a cough with wheezing, or a dry cough with no phlegm, you can eat some apricots
Because apricots contain amygdalin, which has effects like calming the cough, reducing phlegm, warming the lungs, and dispelling cold. The cough-relieving and asthma-relieving effects of the almond in the pit are even stronger.
In addition, for a dry cough, eating bananas or pineapple also has a good effect.
For inflammatory coughs, you might as well eat some tangerines
If your cough is accompanied by a sore throat, it is considered an inflammatory cough, so you might as well eat some tangerines. Tangerines contain volatile oils and limonene, which can increase secretions of the respiratory tract mucous membrane and relieve bronchial spasms, having the effects of reducing phlegm, stopping cough, and relieving asthma.
In addition, hesperidin in tangerines contains vitamin P-like substances, which have anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic effects.
For those in the early stage of illness or with a long-term cough with lots of phlegm, you can eat some pears
Those in the early stage of illness or with a long-term cough with lots of phlegm can eat some pears. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" once recorded that pears can "moisten the lungs, cool the heart, clear phlegm, and reduce fire...".
This is because pears contain components such as glycosides and tannic acid. Steaming the pear with Fritillaria bulb and rock sugar and then eating it is even more effective.
You can also eat some loquats, because loquats contain amygdalin, which can calm the cough and reduce phlegm. Loquat paste, made from loquat fruit, also has the effects of cooling fire, reducing phlegm, and stopping cough.
People with a weak and cold constitution can choose fruits that are warm in nature
Although the causes of coughing vary from person to person, they can be categorized as cold, heat, deficiency, or excess, such as cold cough, heat cough, dry cough, or chronic cough.
When eating fruits, you should distinguish between cold and heat: people with a weak and cold constitution can choose fruits that are warm in nature, such as lychee, longan, pomegranate, cherry, and tangerines;
People with a constitution偏向于热 should eat more cooling fruits
People with a constitution偏向于热 should eat more cooling fruits, such as muskmelon, watermelon, pear, banana, mango, persimmon, and grapefruit.
Because the causes of coughing are diverse and vary in severity, you cannot completely rely on fruits to treat "all coughs"; you still need to treat the specific symptoms.