As we enter autumn, the number of people suffering from coughs, colds and other respiratory diseases increases significantly due to the large temperature difference between morning and evening and dry weather. Many people have symptoms of itchy throat and cough, dry cough with little phlegm, and once they cough up, it is difficult to stop. In particular, the stressful pace of urban life, overwork and poor lifestyle habits cause the body’s immune system to decline, and when stimulated by climate change, the body’s regulation tends to lose balance, resulting in an autumn cough. Autumn coughs should not be treated indiscriminately. Experts warn that this autumn cough has a high chance of being mistaken for a cold. Many people think they have a cold and take cold medicine on their own to treat it. In fact, autumn cough is caused by the dryness of autumn invading the body. Blindly using irrelevant cold medicines and antibiotics will gradually deplete the body’s positive energy and aggravate the condition. The use of cough medicine such as compound licorice tablets to stop coughing is a symptom treatment but not the root cause, and often masks the patient’s symptoms, thus delaying treatment. If you have a more severe cough, you should go to the hospital to find out the cause and prescribe the right medicine, rather than just taking cough medicine. Coughs in autumn have different causes and are generally divided into two types: warm and cool coughs, which have different characteristics in terms of prevention and treatment. Warm dryness usually occurs in early autumn and is characterized by a cough with little phlegm, a dry throat and a dry nose, etc. The main treatment is to remove wind and heat, moisten the lungs and stop the cough. Cool dryness usually occurs after mid-autumn and is often confused with cold, such as headache, chills, fever, but no sweat and no phlegm, so the main treatment is to dispel wind and cold, moisten the lung and stop cough. In Chinese medicine, we pay attention to diagnosis and treatment, and the use of medicine varies from person to person. When autumn cough is serious, it is better to receive soup treatment. After the condition has stabilized, Chinese medicine can be used to stabilize the effect. For people who are prone to autumn cough, “drink more water” should not be taken as an understatement, but is very important. In addition, eating more fruits and foods that moisten the lungs, such as duck pear, white radish, honey and fresh ginger, or using them in soup, is also a way to relieve the cough. In addition, smoking and drinking alcohol are also important factors leading to dry cough, therefore, less smoking and less drinking is one of the principles of health care in autumn. As you can see, to know how to cure the most effective cough during the period when autumn cough comes, you need to take autumn cough medication according to the autumn cough symptoms in order to be effective.