What is the best diet for cough treatment?
Recently, cough has become one of the hotly debated health topics on the Internet, especially during the changing seasons and the period of high influenza incidence. How to relieve cough through dietary therapy has attracted much attention. The following is a cough dietary treatment plan compiled based on popular discussions in the past 10 days to help you quickly relieve symptoms.
1. Cough types and corresponding dietary therapy principles
| Cough type | Main features | Diet therapy principles |
|---|---|---|
| Cold cough | White and thin phlegm, fear of cold | Dispel cold and evil, warm food |
| Wind-heat cough | Yellow and thick phlegm, sore throat | Clear away heat and moisturize lungs, cool food |
| Dry cough | Dry cough without phlegm and dry mouth | Foods that nourish yin, moisturize dryness, and promote body fluids |
2. Ranking of the most popular antitussive ingredients on the Internet
| Ranking | Ingredients | Efficacy | Applicable cough types |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sydney | Moisten the lungs, relieve cough, promote fluid production and reduce phlegm | Wind heat/dry cough |
| 2 | white radish | Regulate qi, resolve phlegm, and reduce inflammation | Wind chill/wind heat |
| 3 | honey | Antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, throat moistening | All types (disabled under 1 year old) |
| 4 | ginger | Warm the stomach and dispel cold | Cold cough |
| 5 | Lily | Nourishes yin and moisturizes lungs | Dry cough |
3. Recommendations for popular dietary remedies for cough relief
1.Rock Sugar Snow Pear Cup(The most popular on the entire network)
Ingredients: 1 Sydney pear, 5g rock sugar, 3g Sichuan clam powder (optional)
Method: Cut the top of the pear and remove the core, add rock sugar and Sichuan clam powder, and steam for 30 minutes.
Efficacy: Effective for dry cough and night cough.
2.White radish honey drink(a popular short video platform)
Ingredients: 200g white radish, 20ml honey
Method: Dice the white radish and marinate it with honey for 2 hours, then drink the juice.
Note: Diabetic patients should use with caution.
3.Green onion and white ginger syrup(recommended by mom group)
Ingredients: 3 sections of scallion, 3 slices of ginger, 10g of brown sugar
Method: Boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
Especially suitable for early stage colds and coughs.
4. Precautions
1. Diet therapy is suitable for mild cough or auxiliary treatment. If cough persists for more than 1 week, you should seek medical treatment.
2. People with allergies should choose ingredients carefully. Honey, for example, may cause allergies.
3. The dosage for children needs to be halved, and honey is prohibited for infants under 1 year old.
4. Avoid eating spicy and greasy foods during diet therapy.
5. Expert advice
Professor Zhang from the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences emphasized in a recent interview: "Dietary therapy for coughs requires syndrome differentiation and treatment. Misuse of cold foods for wind-cold coughs may aggravate the symptoms. At the same time, it should be noted that dietary therapy cannot replace drug treatment. In severe cases, timely medical treatment is required."
The above content combines the hot discussion data in the past 10 days on Weibo health topics, Douyin diet therapy video likes list, Zhihu high praise answers and other platforms to provide you with the most innovative and practical cough diet therapy plan.
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