Many elderly people face coughing problems, which have an impact on their health. When encountering a cough, you may want to try the following dietary methods to alleviate it:
1. Stewed pear with rock sugar: Peel and core the pear, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, steam until soft, naturally gentle, and helpful in relieving coughs.
2. Baked oranges: Punch a small hole in an orange, add a pinch of salt, wrap it up, bake for 15-20 minutes, peel before eating, better when consumed warm. Dried orange peel can be made into aged tangerine peel tea, which is also beneficial.
3. Steamed pear with Fritillaria: Peel and core the pear, add Fritillaria powder, steam until soft, and consume, which has a good relieving effect on coughs.
4. White radish with honey: Dice white radish, mix with honey, marinate for a few days, add warm water when consuming, significant cough-suppressing effect.
5. Candied kumquats: Poke holes in kumquats, boil in water, add rock sugar, simmer until soft, consume hot, helpful in relieving coughs.
6. Avoid candies, cookies, and foods that can create internal heat such as peanuts, melon seeds in diet, drinking warm water can also effectively relieve coughs.
Coughing, as a self-defense reaction, can be categorized as dry cough or wet cough, caused by various factors including colds, bronchitis, pneumonia, and even specific diseases such as tuberculosis. Persistent coughing requires attention and timely medical examination. Also, cough-variant asthma may manifest as persistent cough and needs professional diagnosis.
In terms of dietary adjustment, the following recipes are recommended to help alleviate coughs:
– Flower tea (white peony and honeysuckle): Moistening the throat and lungs, reducing liver heat.
– Honey black fungus water: Detoxifying, antibacterial, relieving coughs.
– Sugar-boiled eggs: Simple nutrition, promoting cough recovery.
– Century egg lean pork congee, aged tangerine peel congee, aged tangerine peel ginkgo barley congee: Different congee targeting different types of coughs for auxiliary treatment.
By adjusting diet and lifestyle habits reasonably, cough symptoms can be effectively alleviated, maintaining the health of the respiratory tract.
