Patients who develop a cough should first identify the cause and determine whether systematic treatment is needed. The so-called prescriptions are in fact mostly folklore, unorthodox treatment methods, common dietary therapy, but generally cannot directly treat the original disease, but can only simply help to relieve cough, and there are not as many as 52 kinds, the following are a few common, cough relief dietary therapy: 1, white root pear juice: clean the snow pear and lotus root, pear peeled and de-nucleated, root sliced and diced can be, plus pure water to boil soup or juice. When squeezing the juice should be discarded, to avoid fine particles to stimulate the respiratory tract, thereby aggravating the cough; 2, ginger syrup drink: syrup is a traditional Chinese medicine, warm and sweet, mainly from corn, wheat, corn and other grain fermentation and saccharification. The ginger washed and shredded, add water to boil and then add a small amount of caramel, a little sweetness can be; 3, lily lung soup: lily, ginkgo, northern ginseng, yam, lotus seeds, gorgonian, party ginseng and other ingredients as a supplement, can add pig heart lung stew, such herbs help to nourish Yin and lung, calm asthma; 4, ice sugar snow pear soup: the choice of snow pear, Chen Pi, a small amount of ice sugar stewed together, snow pear washed and peeled, remove the core, but also can be put Some Chinese wolfberry, Chuanbei mother, also help to stop cough, lung, phlegm; 5, Luo Han Guo Chen Pi soup: Chen Pi soak clean, remove white, can be shredded, sliced, and Luo Han Guo, lean meat stewed together, help to remove fire, health care spleen and stomach, cough and phlegm. When you drink it, you can discard the fruit and peel, drink the soup and eat the meat; 6. Lily and walnut porridge: take lily, walnuts, large red dates and round-grained rice and boil the porridge together, which can improve the symptoms of cough. When a patient has a cough, if lily, fresh lotus root, silver fungus, water chestnut, honey, pear, orange peel, Luo Han Guo, Chuan Bei Mu, mint, chrysanthemum and other ingredients are applied in appropriate amounts, it helps to tonify the qi and benefit the lung, stop coughing and dissolve phlegm. However, dietary therapy does not have a therapeutic effect on the primary cause of the cough. It is recommended to consult a doctor promptly when coughing or coughing up phlegm for a long time or when accompanied by symptoms such as fever, fatigue and chest discomfort, and relevant medication can be administered after the cause is clear.