What are the dietary treatments for wind-heat cold and cough? Diet to relieve the condition!

When the weather is bad, it is most likely to cause wind-heat cold and cough. Once you have wind-heat cough, if you don't pay attention to your diet, the cough will worsen and the condition will recur. What are the dietary treatments for wind-heat cold and cough? The right healthy diet can help you relieve the condition!

Diet therapy for wind-heat cold and cough

Exogenous wind-heat can cause wind-heat cough, the main symptoms of which are: cough, yellow and thick sputum that is difficult to cough up, or a small amount of blood, nasal congestion and runny nose, dry mouth, dry throat and sore throat, or fever, bad wind, headache, sweating, red tongue, and thin yellow fur.

When you have a wind-heat cold, you can drink some chrysanthemum sugar tea, panda lychnophora, etc. to relieve the symptoms in time. If it has developed to the cough stage, pears, figs, watermelons, green olives, mint, panda lychnophora, and honeysuckle are suitable for wind-heat cough. Patients can choose fresh lotus root juice, pear juice, radish rock sugar juice, green onion and white pear juice, etc. for food therapy.

Patients with wind-heat cold and cough should also avoid eating spicy and hot tonic foods, such as longan meat, angelica, pepper, dog meat, beef, mutton, donkey meat, horse meat, etc. The following editor introduces you to the food suitable for wind-heat cold and cough.

1. Chrysanthemum: White chrysanthemum has the effects of dispelling wind, clearing heat and detoxifying. You can use 5 grams of white chrysanthemum, brew it with boiling water and drink it instead of tea. Or you can use 50 grams of chrysanthemum to make soup, and then cook it with 100 grams of polished rice to make porridge. It has the effects of clearing away summer heat, dispersing wind heat, clearing liver fire and improving eyesight. It has certain effects on wind-heat cold, heart trouble, dry throat, red and swollen eyes, etc.

2. Luo Han fruit: Luo Han fruit can clear the lungs and relieve coughs. It is suitable for people with lung heat cough and wind heat cough. You can use 1 Luo Han fruit and 15 grams of persimmon cake, boiled in water and taken.

3. Pears: Pears can promote the production of body fluids, clear away heat, and resolve phlegm. They are suitable for consumption when suffering from wind-heat cold, fever, dry mouth, cough, and yellow phlegm. For those suffering from wind-heat cold and cough, you can use a raw pear, wash it, chop it with the skin, add rock sugar, and stew it in water.

4. Luffa: Luffa is good at clearing away heat and reducing phlegm, and is especially suitable for people with hot coughs with thick and yellow phlegm. This is because the plant mucus of luffa contains a kind of saponin, which has the effect of removing phlegm and reducing phlegm. People who cough due to lung heat or wind-heat invading the lungs often spit out purulent phlegm. It is advisable to take luffa decoction, and it is better to cook luffa with tofu, which is beneficial for removing phlegm and opening the chest.

5. Winter melon: Winter melon is cool in nature and can eliminate phlegm and clear heat. For those with wind-heat cough or lung-heat cough, it is appropriate to choose winter melon stew soup for consumption.

6. Radish: You can choose 500 grams of fresh red-skinned spicy radish, wash it without peeling it, cut it into thin slices, put it in a bowl, put 2-3 spoons of maltose on it, and leave it overnight. The radish juice will be dissolved. Drink it frequently. It has the effect of clearing heat, reducing phlegm and relieving cough. It is suitable for people with wind-heat or lung-heat cough. You can also use 500 grams each of fresh radish and water chestnut, wash them, and mash or squeeze the juice together.

7. Mint: Mint is pungent and cool in nature, and is good at dispersing exogenous wind-heat. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" says that it "treats colds and coughs", which is actually wind-heat coughs. "Simple Prescriptions" also introduces that using mint alone can "clear the upper body and resolve phlegm, relieve sore throat and diaphragm, and treat wind-heat." Therefore, it is suitable for people with wind-heat colds and coughs or lung heat coughs to drink mint instead of tea.

8. Bamboo shoots: Bamboo shoots are sweet and cold in nature, and have the effect of clearing heat and resolving phlegm. For example, "Bencao Qiuyuan" says: "Bamboo shoots are sweet and slightly cold, clearing heat and removing phlegm." "Sui Xi Ju Yin Shi Pu" also says: "Bamboo shoots are sweet and cool, open the chest and eliminate phlegm." Therefore, it is most suitable for people with wind-heat cough or lung-heat cough.

9. Watermelon: Watermelon is cold in nature and can cure all heat symptoms. If your baby suffers from wind-heat cough in summer, you can let him eat more watermelon and drink more water.

10. Water chestnut: Water chestnut is cold in nature. Peel 4 to 6 water chestnuts for adults (2 to 3 for children), cut them into thin slices, put them in a pot, add a bowl of water, and boil them over high heat for 5 minutes. Drinking water chestnut water can eliminate phlegm, clear away heat, and is effective for those who vomit purulent phlegm.

11. Loquat: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loquat has the effects of moistening the lungs, clearing away heat and quenching thirst, and harmonizing the stomach. In the "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica", there is a record that "loquat can cure cough and spitting". Therefore, loquat is the best health fruit for cough. It can not only relieve cough, but also increase appetite and improve the body's positive energy.

12. Honeysuckle: Honeysuckle tea is sweet and cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, and dispersing wind and heat. Honeysuckle has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving throat pain, and relieving heat and annoyance. It can treat summer heat syndrome, diarrhea, influenza, sores, acute and chronic tonsillitis, periodontitis and other diseases.

Recipe for wind-heat cold and cough

1. Mulberry, chrysanthemum and almond tea: 10g mulberry leaves, 10g chrysanthemum and 10g almonds (peeled and crushed). Put all three together in a pot and boil for 20-30 minutes. Take the juice and add 15g honey and drink it warm.

2. Pear and Shellfish Soup: 100g duck pear (wash, core and slice), 6g Fritillaria cirrhosa (crushed), 10g Platycodon grandiflorum, put them together in a casserole and boil for 20 minutes, then add 10g chrysanthemum, boil for another 10 minutes, remove the residue and take the juice, add appropriate amount of rock sugar, and serve warm.