People with cough can eat lotus seeds. As an ingredient, lotus seeds can also be used as a medicinal herb, which has the function of clearing the heart, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. It has certain benefits for the human body. For coughs with dry lung heat, you can drink water with lotus seeds, lily of the valley and yucca. For coughs in people with lung yin deficiency, you can also drink water boiled with lotus seeds, lily of the valley and herbs such as sage and maitake. It should be noted that lotus seeds are slightly cold in nature, so if a person has a cold stomach or a deficient spleen, it is also inappropriate to eat more of them and needs to be properly controlled. However, it should be clear that the ingredients do not have the effect of treating the disease, but can only assist in relieving the symptoms.