In traditional Chinese medicine, cough is divided into wind cold cough and lung heat cough. The symptoms of the two types of cough are completely different, and the treatment methods are also different. Some people believe that pears are the best food for treating cough, and whenever they cough, they will drink rock sugar pear water. So, can I drink rock sugar pear water for wind cold cough?
Can I drink rock sugar pear water for wind cold cough
Some patients believe that pears can relieve cough and boil pear water to drink when coughing, but pears are cool and dry when coughing, so it is advisable to use pears. If the patient presents with phlegm dampness cough, or cold drink cough, cough phlegm with multiple colors and sparse white matter, aversion to cold, and irregular stool, then pear water or Chuanbei steamed pear is not suitable. If it is a cold caused by wind, then you cannot eat raw pears, you can only cook them before eating. Pears are cold when they are raw, and eating this cold type of food can only make the symptoms more severe. However, if the pear is stewed and rock sugar is added, it doesn't matter. At this point, it can have a moisturizing effect on the lungs and remove the coldness.
Dietary therapy methods for wind cold cough
1. Ginger+brown sugar+garlic
If a child has a cold caused by wind chill, drinking warm ginger brown sugar water can have a good therapeutic effect. If the child also has cough, 2-3 cloves of garlic can be added to the ginger brown sugar water and boiled together. It should be boiled over low heat for 10 minutes to remove the spicy taste of the garlic, so that the child is willing to drink.
2. Steamed garlic water
Take 2-3 cloves of garlic, crush them, put them in a bowl, add half a bowl of water, add a piece of rock sugar, cover the bowl and put it in a pot to steam. After boiling over high heat, steam over low heat for 15 minutes. When the garlic water in the bowl is warm, feed it to the child and they can skip eating garlic. Usually 2-3 times a day, one small bowl. Garlic is warm in nature and enters the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians. It has a very good effect on treating cold cough and kidney deficiency cough, and is convenient and simple. Children are also willing to drink it.
3. Roasted Orange
Bake the orange directly on low heat and keep flipping it until the orange peel turns black and hot steam emerges from the orange. Let the orange cool down for a while, peel off the orange peel, and let the child eat warm orange slices. If it's a big orange, the child can eat 2-3 slices at a time. If it's a small tribute orange, the child can eat one at a time. It is best to eat it with garlic water 2-3 times a day. Oranges are warm in nature and have the effect of resolving phlegm and stopping cough. After eating roasted oranges, the amount of phlegm will significantly decrease, and the cough suppressant effect is very obvious, and children are willing to eat them.
