It is best not to eat plums during a cough. Plums are a cold fruit with a sour taste and the acidity can play an astringent role. Patients with coughs in general may aggravate their coughs if they eat them due to the stimulation of excessive cold. In addition, eating too many plums also has the effect of producing phlegm, so patients with coughs accompanied by coughing phlegm may aggravate the symptoms of coughing and coughing phlegm after eating plums. Especially if you have a cold cough, where the cold is not yet resolved and the cough has some white phlegm, you should never eat plums at this time. Plums are mainly suitable for wind-heat coughs and can be eaten. In addition, plums can also treat anemia and moderate eating of plums has the effect of iron supplementation. In addition, patients with hoarseness or loss of voice can stew with rock sugar to moisten the throat and open the sound, but coughs can not eat, because plums produce phlegm and help dampness, patients with weak spleen and stomach or patients with excessive stomach acid should not eat.