You can eat rice dumplings in moderation when you have a cough, but there are especially many types of rice dumplings, some of which you can eat and some of which you cannot eat instead. For example, bamboo dumplings, which have the effect of clearing heat and lowering fire, can be eaten in small quantities during a cough, as can white dumplings made of pure glutinous rice or eight treasure dumplings. But if the dumplings put sweet food, such as dates and so on, can not eat, eat sweet food will aggravate the cough. In addition, eating sweet food also has the effect of producing phlegm, so you can’t eat rice dumplings made of dates during coughing. In the south, it is easy to eat meat dumplings. In Chinese medicine, there is a saying that fish produces fire and meat produces phlegm, so you should not eat meat during coughing. It is not advisable to eat more than one dumpling, which is a hard-to-digest food and can cause indigestion.