Ways to stop cold cough and reduce phlegm in the elderly

Cold cough in the elderly to stop coughing and phlegm methods include general treatment such as dietary adjustments, medication such as stopping cough powder and so on.
1. General treatment: Cold cough in the life of the elderly, should avoid eating cold and greasy food, pay attention to warmth, so as not to get cold.
2. medication: stopping cough powder is composed of Baibei, Platycodonopsis, Jingwu and other drugs, with the effect of wind and cough, can be used to treat wind-cold lung evidence. Yin deficiency cough, lung heat cough patients, should not use this drug. San’ao Tang is composed of ephedra, almonds and licorice, with the efficacy of pungent warmth and symptomatic relief, it can be used to treat the evidence of external wind-cold and lung qi non-expansion, and the contraindications are not yet clear.
If you need to use the medicine, you should be under the guidance of a doctor, not unauthorized use of drugs.