The lungs have been known as the “delicate organs” since ancient times, and either too cold or too hot weather can easily lead to lung diseases. In addition to the serious air pollution nowadays, many elderly people with weak constitution will have different degrees of cough, phlegm, shortness of breath and other symptoms of lung diseases once they inhale dust and metal particles in the air. What soup should I drink to clear my lungs and stop coughing? Coughs in the elderly are mainly due to “deficiency” Although coughs in the elderly are often caused by external aggressions, they are ultimately caused by physical deficiency. According to Chinese medicine, “if the righteousness exists within the body, evil cannot dry it out”, the so-called “righteousness” refers to the body’s resistance to pathogenic microorganisms and its own ability to regulate and adapt; “evil” refers to Various disease-causing factors. Simply put, if the body’s resistance is strong enough, no matter how viruses, bacteria and other disease-causing factors attack the body, people will not get sick. The intrinsic physiological characteristics of “body weakness” in the elderly create the external pathological manifestation of “lung weakness”. Lung deficiency” is divided into two symptoms: “Lung Qi deficiency” and “Lung Yin deficiency”, which are very different in terms of medication, and elderly people with persistent cough need to distinguish them clearly. These two symptoms are very different in terms of medication, and elderly people with persistent cough need to distinguish them clearly. People with “lung qi deficiency” have a history of repeated colds and coughing and wheezing, which is characterized by a weak cough, shortness of breath and wheezing, with no natural sweating due to factors such as exertion and activity, heat and over-warm clothes, and is accompanied by symptoms such as a pale complexion and fatigue. People with “lung yin deficiency” tend to smoke and drink too much over the years, or often eat spicy, hot food, resulting in dry heat injury to the lungs. The specific manifestations are dry cough, little phlegm, hot flashes, sweating after sleeping and sweating after waking up, etc. After careful consultation, we find that they all have one thing in common: whenever they have a cough, they start to make some “lung-cleansing soup” recommended by their friends and relatives to drink, but usually after drinking these soups, the cough gets worse. There are four reasons for this phenomenon: First, the patient has not yet cleared the external sensation and is still in a state of fever and runny nose before starting to drink the soup. The “lung moistening soup” is not suitable for patients with external sensation, as it traps the evil qi in the body and makes it difficult to heal the cough. For example, if a person with a wind-cold cough drinks a cold soup, the condition will be aggravated; third, the number of times the patient drinks the soup is not properly controlled. Su Wen Wu Chang Zheng Da Lun said: “big poison cure, ten to its six.” Meaning that after taking the medicine, the evil removed to six tenths, we should stop the medicine, otherwise it will disturb the balance of the body’s yin and Yang. Therefore, even if the soup you drink can improve your symptoms, you should stop drinking it when your condition is 60-70% better; fourth, the real cause of prolonged cough is not a respiratory disease, but a disease of other organs. This is what is mentioned in the Suwen Xuanming Five Qi Chapter: “All five internal organs cause coughing, not just the lungs”. In order to cure cough, we must find the right cause. Food therapy 1, Atractylodes Macrocephalae Pig Lung Soup Ingredients: Atractylodes Macrocephalae 10 grams, licorice 5 grams, dry ginger 5 grams, peel 8 grams, pig lung 200 grams, salt to taste. Practice: fill water from the throat of the pig lung, wait for it to turn white, squeeze out the dirty things in the lung with your hands, repeated several times, rinse clean and then cut into pieces; pig lung scrubbed twice with salt, then boil water, then put into a pot with slow fire drying spare. Finally, add all the ingredients together into the soup pot, add the right amount of water and cook for half an hour, adding the right amount of salt according to personal taste. Effects: Atractylodes macrocephala strengthens the spleen and benefits the qi, dries dampness and promotes water circulation; licorice dispels phlegm, stops coughing and calms asthma; dry ginger warms the middle and disperses cold, warms the lungs and dissolves drinks; Chen Pi dries dampness and resolves phlegm. This product is suitable for people with lung qi deficiency evidence. 2, Chen Chuan Poria stewed lean meat Ingredients: Chuan Bai 5 to 8 grams, 10 grams of peel, Poria 15 grams, lean meat 150 grams, salt to taste. Practice: first rinse the lean meat, and then with Sichuan peel, peel, poria put into the stew pot, add 500 ml of water, stewed in water for 2 hours, and finally add the right amount of salt to taste. Effect: Sichuan mussels moisten the lung to stop cough, clear heat and phlegm to calm asthma; Chen Pi to regulate the spleen, moisten dryness and dampness; Poria to benefit water and permeate dampness, strengthen the spleen and calm the heart. This product is suitable for people with lung deficiency and prolonged cough, phlegm. 3, lily snow fungus lean meat soup Ingredients: lily 10 grams, 30 grams of snow fungus, 12 grams of maitake, lean meat 150 grams, salt to taste. Practice: the lily, maitake clean; snow fungus soaked in clear water, clean; lean meat washed, cut into pieces. Put all the ingredients together in a pot, add the right amount of water, boil with a military fire, then cook with a civilian fire for 2 hours, and finally add salt to taste. Effect: Lily nourishes yin and moistens the lung, clears the heart and calms the mind; snow fungus nourishes yin and moistens the lung, generates fluid and stops cough; maitake nourishes yin and generates fluid, moistens the lung and clears the heart. This product is suitable for people with lung yin deficiency.