Itchy throat cough dietary therapy is of some use, but it cannot replace the role of traditional Chinese medicine and may not be able to treat the disease. It is recommended that patients in need of treatment should seek medical attention in a timely manner.
Itchy throat cough, should be based on different types of evidence to identify the use of therapeutic prescriptions.
1. Exogenous wind-cold: the treatment is appropriate to dispel wind and cold to promote lungs. You can eat perilla, almonds, ginger, dry ginger, brown sugar, cinnamon sticks and other ingredients.
2. External wind-heat: the treatment is to clear the wind and purge the lungs. Mulberry leaves, chrysanthemums, pears, almonds, fenugreek tea and other ingredients can be consumed.
3. External wind dryness: the treatment is appropriate to clear the lungs and moisturize the dryness of the wind. Can eat mulberry leaves, white radish, carrots, honey, maitake, almonds and other ingredients.
4. Internal injury to the liver fire: treatment is appropriate to clear the lungs and calm the liver to reduce fire. Can use loofah, honey, chrysanthemum, almonds and other ingredients.
5. Phlegm and dampness in the lungs: the treatment is to strengthen the spleen, dry dampness and resolve phlegm (by drying dampness to dispel dampness and dissolve phlegm). Ingredients such as tangerine red, pomelo, galangal, honey and yam can be used.
6. Phlegm-heat and Lung Depletion: The treatment should be to clear away heat, resolve phlegm and purge the lungs. Ingredients such as rehmannia, bamboo, water chestnut, pear, lotus root and carrot can be consumed.
7. Cold drinks that offend the lungs: the treatment is to warm the lungs and dissolve the drinks (by warming the lungs to promote the operation of the stagnant fluid). Ingredients such as dried ginger, ginger, poria, licorice and sugar cane can be used.
8. Lung Yin Deficiency: Nourishing Yin and moisturizing the Lungs is recommended. Ingredients such as bamboo, salvia, maitake, old duck, white lotus root, lily of the valley, almonds, etc. can be consumed.
9. Lung qi deficiency: the treatment is appropriate to nourish the lung qi. Yam, ginseng, pig lungs, almonds, walnut meat and other ingredients can be consumed.
Food therapy may play a limited role, it is recommended that patients with discomfort timely medical treatment, not self-medication.