Coughing is a protective mechanism of the body to remove secretions and foreign bodies from the respiratory tract. However, coughing all the time indicates a respiratory pathology and requires active management. If you are afraid of the side effects of medications, you may want to use the following small methods to stop coughing, which are safe and have no toxic side effects and are more effective.
How to relieve cough symptoms?
1, Whooping cough
Put 150 grams of sunflower stem cores in a pot and decoct them to drink as tea, especially for people with cough and phlegm. Sunflower stem cores contain neochlorogenic acid and ranunculoside, which can enter the bladder meridian to stop coughing, clear heat and diuretic effect. The appropriate amount of sunflower stem core pounded, brewed with boiling water and add an appropriate amount of sugar to mix, can assist in the treatment of chronic bronchitis. It can also promote immunity, clear heat and phlegm, and is often used to treat cough and asthma caused by chronic bronchitis or whooping cough.
2, Cough with phlegm
Half a white radish and pear all chopped, with the right amount of dry ginger and almonds together with water to drink, especially for cough phlegm crowd. White radish can play a phlegm cough effect, the white radish washed and cut into slices, together with sugar decoction, can assist in the treatment of whooping cough, chronic bronchitis and wind cough. If you have hoarseness, tonsillitis or laryngitis with phlegm, pound the white radish into juice and take it with dried ginger and almonds in a decoction, which can stop cough and dissolve phlegm and warm the Yang and disperse cold.
3, blood in the phlegm
Put the right amount of lily in the pot decoction, drink once a day in the morning and evening, can relieve the problem of blood in phlegm. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, lily belongs to the lung and heart meridians, which nourishes the yin and moistens the lung and relieves coughs, relieving blood in phlegm and dry coughs caused by lung yin deficiency. Patients with chronic cough, dry mouth and bad breath, sores on the tongue and tuberculosis should eat more lilies. It is worth reminding that lily is cold in nature and is prohibited for people with weak spleen and stomach, cold bleeding and wind-cold coughs.
4, Wind-cold cough
Steaming a suitable amount of garlic and rock sugar together in a pot and taking it once before going to bed can relieve wind-cold cough. Chinese medicine says that garlic belongs to the lung meridian and aids in the treatment of cough and asthma; the allicin contained in it stimulates appetite and plays an antiseptic and antibacterial effect. Ice sugar itself has the effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, so sharing it with garlic can improve the effect of relieving cough, but it is only suitable for cough caused by wind-cold and cold.
Warm Tips
Most coughs are caused by respiratory diseases, so you should actively prevent them. Increase and decrease clothing according to the weather to avoid catching a cold; open the windows of your room regularly to maintain fresh air flow; try not to go to densely populated places and wear a mask when you go out; have an hour or so of outdoor activities every day to strengthen your resistance.