In Chinese medicine, coughs are divided into two categories according to their main clinical symptoms, generally referred to as “external cough” when they are secondary to a cold, and “internal cough” when there are no obvious cold symptoms. In addition to taking medication as prescribed by the doctor, children with cough should eat a light, easily digestible diet and avoid eating fishy and spicy products. In addition, the following dietary supplements can be used.
1. Wind-cold cough: characterized by coughing, itchy throat, clear sputum, nasal congestion, and clear runny nose, etc. Treatment is recommended to promote the lung and disperse cold to stop coughing.
(1) Perilla porridge: 10 grams of perilla leaves, 50 grams of round-grained rice, 3 slices of ginger and 3 jujubes. When the porridge is cooked, add the leaves, ginger and jujube and take it while it is still hot.
(2) White onion porridge: 50 grams of rice, 5 slices of ginger, 5 pieces of white onion with beard, 5 ml of rice vinegar, add water and cook the porridge, take while hot.
(3) Almond and radish decoction: 10 grams of almonds (sweet), 3 slices of ginger, 100 grams of white radish, decoction with water, 1 dose daily.
(4) Walnut and ginger drink: 5 walnut pulp mashed, ginger juice appropriate amount of delivery.
(5) Home prepared Chinese medicine: Tong Xuan Li Lung Pill. Orange Red Pills, Orange Red Phlegm and Cough Liquid, etc.
2. Wind-heat cough: characterized by cough, yellow and sticky sputum, runny nose, red throat and dry mouth. Treatment is to remove wind and heat, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.
(1) Two juice drink: fresh lotus root juice, pear juice, etc., served raw.
(2) radish ice sugar juice: 100-200 ml of white radish juice, add appropriate amount of rock sugar stewed in water, drink once before bedtime, and even use 3-5 times.
(3) white onion and pear juice: white onion with 7 beards, pear 1, ice sugar appropriate amount, water decoction.
(4) loofah honey drink: 10 grams of clean loofah, put into a porcelain cup, brewed with boiling water, cover and simmer for 10 minutes, then mix in the right amount of honey, while hot.
(5) Olive and radish drink: 400 grams of olives, radish 500-1000 grams, decoction of tea drink.
(6) honey radish juice: 1 white radish, wash, hollow out the center, 100 grams of honey into a large bowl, add water to steam and serve.
(7) Red-skinned radish washed (without peeling), chopped and added 2 to 3 spoons of maltose, set aside overnight, dissolve into radish sugar water and drink frequently.
(Burdock Porridge: Strain 100ml of juice from fresh burdock root and 50g of round-grained rice, cook the porridge and take it while it is hot.
(9) Commonly prepared Chinese medicines at home: acute branch syrup, compound licorice combination, silver yellow oral liquid, etc.
3. Phlegm-warm cough: characterized by a cough with a lot of phlegm, thin phlegm, heavy cough in the morning and evening, often accompanied by loss of appetite and more saliva. Treatment is to dry dampness and resolve phlegm.
(1) Orange peel porridge: 30 grams of fresh orange peel, washed and shredded, 100 grams of rice, add water and cook the porridge.
(2) Job’s tear porridge: 50 grams of coix seeds, 100-200 grams of round-grained rice, cooked into a porridge, often drink and serve.
(3) Er Chen Er Ren porridge: 9 grams of Chen Pi, 6 grams of Semen, 12 grams of Poria, 15 grams of Job’s Tear, 15 grams of Dong Gua Ren, 100 grams of round-grained rice. Decoct the first five ingredients in water, boil for about 10 minutes, remove the dregs and take the juice. Add round-grained rice and the right amount of water, cooked with the porridge.
(4) barley almond porridge: 50 grams of barley, 10 grams of almonds (remove the skin tip). Wash the barley, add water and boil it to half-cooked, put the almonds, and add a little sugar to the porridge.
(5) grapefruit peel drink: grapefruit peel appropriate amount, water decoction.
(6) Standing Chinese medicine: orange red pill, orange red phlegm cough liquid, etc.
4. Phlegm-heat cough: cough with yellow sputum, accompanied by thirst, red lips, yellow urine and dry stool. Treatment is to clear heat and dissolve phlegm.
(1) Water chestnut jellyfish drink: 200 grams of water chestnut, 100 grams of jellyfish skin, water decoction, divided into serving.
(2) Autumn pear and white lotus root juice: autumn pear, remove the skin, core, white lotus root, each equal amount, chopped, juice, take frequently.
(3) rutabaga porridge: 150 grams of fresh rutabaga, 15 grams of bamboo, 3 grams of ginger, 50 grams of round-grained rice. First decoction of the first two flavors of medicine to get juice, into the rice to cook porridge, to be cooked with ginger, a little cooking can be.
(4) almond sugar: equal parts of bitter almonds with skin, rock sugar, crushed and mixed, stabbed into almond sugar, morning service each punch 3 grams.
(5) walnuts 150 grams, 200 grams of rock sugar, hawthorn 50 grams. First, the walnuts into a pulp, then hawthorn boiled into juice, remove the dregs, into the sugar and walnut pulp cooked together. Feel free to eat.
(6) 15 grams of winter melon seeds, add a little brown sugar, pounded and served with boiling water, 2 times a day.
(7) Standing Chinese medicines: acute branch syrup, Xiangsheng cough and wheezing ning, compound fresh bamboo leech, fresh bamboo leech, etc.
5.Cough with Qi deficiency: characterized by coughing for a long time, weak cough, thin sputum, white face and sweating, etc. The treatment is to strengthen the spleen, benefit the qi, and nourish the lungs to stop the cough.
(1) Tofu Casserole: 250 grams of tofu, 50 grams of brown sugar, 5 slices of ginger, slow-boil for 1 hour, eat every night before bed, and serve for 1 week.
(2) almond, radish, pork lung soup: 1 pork lung, white radish each (cut into pieces), 9 grams of almonds, stewed and cooked food.
(3) 500 grams of kelp root, 75 grams of ginger and brown sugar. Add water and boil into 450 ml of concentrated syrup, 15 ml each time, 3 times a day, 10 in for a course of treatment.
(4) Astragalus porridge: 20 grams of astragalus, 50 grams of round-grained rice. Astragalus add 500 ml of water, boil to 200 ml, remove the dregs. Add clean round-grained rice, add water and cook until the porridge is ready. Warm up and take.
(5) pig lung barley porridge: 150 grams of barley, pig lung 1, diced, cooked into a porridge.
(6) peanut red date soup: peanut rice, dates, honey, 30 grams each, water decoction. Eat peanuts, dates, drink soup. 2 times a day.
(7) Commonly available Chinese medicines: children’s Kangning and Sijunzi Combination.
6. Yin deficiency cough: characterized by dry cough with little phlegm, coughing for a long time, often accompanied by physical wasting, dry mouth and throat, and heat in the heart of the hands and feet. The treatment is to nourish Yin and moisten the lungs to stop the cough.
(1) Mentaceae porridge: 15-20 grams of asparagus, 60 grams of round-grained rice, and a little rock sugar. First decoct asparagus juice to remove the dregs, into the japonica rice with the porridge, porridge into the ice sugar. Take it daily in the morning on an empty stomach.
(2) Silver fungus porridge: 25 grams of silver fungus, 100 grams of round-grained rice. Sugar. Boil silver fungus with water until six mature, add rice into the porridge, add rock sugar before the pot.
(3) Lily and japonica rice porridge: 50 grams of lily, 100 grams of japonica rice, 5-10 red dates, 30 grams of red beans, and sugar.
(4) Sichuan shellfish stuffed pear: 12 grams of Sichuan shellfish, 6 snow pears, 100 grams of winter melon, 100 grams of rock sugar, 100 grams of glutinous rice, alum 3 grams. First, the glutinous rice steamed, cut into small particles, Chuanbei research into the end, alum dissolved in water; then the snow pear peeled, cut off the cover, scoop out the pear nucleus, immersed in alum solution to prevent discoloration; production of the pear, in boiling water, rinse cool, put in a bowl, the glutinous rice, winter melon grains, rock sugar mix, and into the Chuanbei powder, packed snow pear, cover, steamed for 1 hour to rotten that is; another will be the rest of the rock sugar dissolved in water, to collect the thick juice. Drizzle on the pear just out of the cage. Eat 1 pear each morning and evening.
(5) Sichuan shellfish ice sugar pear: Sichuan shellfish powder 3 grams, 1 large pear, ice sugar 6 grams. Remove the skin of the pear, dig out the heart of the pear, filled with Sichuan shellfish powder, rock sugar, steamed and eaten.
(6) honey steamed pear (radish): pear or white radish 1, dig the hollow, honey 30 grams into the pear or radish, steamed and eaten, 2 per day.
(7) black sesame 60 grams, 60 grams of walnuts, 50 grams of rock sugar, pounded together, boiled water, 10-15 grams each time, morning and evening on an empty stomach. Especially suitable for those with yin deficiency intestinal dry constipation.
(8) lily pig lung soup: lily 30 grams, pig lung 250 grams. Stewed over slow fire, add a little salt to taste, drink soup and eat pig lung.
(9) Silver fungus and duck egg: 9 grams of silver fungus, cooked first; 1 duck egg, beaten into the silver fungus soup, add the right amount of rock sugar to taste.
(10) Home prepared Chinese medicine: nourishing Yin and clearing lung pill, Niancian Chuanbei Loquat Paste, etc.