What are some simple methods for cough recipes?

Compared with other diseases, cough is more troublesome, especially for children. It is difficult to treat. Experts say that the best way in this case is to use diet therapy. For example, lily porridge, pear porridge, lily and almond porridge, Ningsou Zhichuan tea, Erbaierdong tea, cough drink, etc. are all particularly good choices. Not only are they effective quickly, they also have no side effects on the body. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

1. Lily porridge: 50 grams of fresh lily (30 grams of dried product), 50 grams of glutinous rice, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and lungs, relieves cough and asthma. It is suitable for children with damaged lung yin, spleen deficiency, and resulting in cough, asthma, decreased appetite, etc.

Usage: First, boil lily and glutinous rice together with water to make porridge. After the porridge is ready, add rock sugar, stir until it melts, and eat it while it is warm.

2. Pear porridge: 3 duck pears, 50 grams of polished rice.

Effect: Clears the heart and moistens the lungs, relieves cough and relieves restlessness. It is suitable for symptoms such as insufficient lung yin, cough and shortness of breath, hoarseness, decreased appetite, and dry stool.

Usage: First wash the pears, cut into thin slices, discard the core, mash them to extract the juice; use water to cook rice porridge as usual, add pear juice after the porridge is done, mix well and eat.

3. Lily and almond porridge: 50 grams of lily, 10 grams of almonds, 50 grams of polished rice, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Efficacy: Nourishes yin, moistens the lungs, and relieves cough. It is suitable for chronic cough caused by lung yin deficiency.

Usage: First boil the lily and almonds (peeled and pointed) for several times, then add rice and cook into porridge, then add sugar and eat once a day.

4. Cough and Asthma Relief Tea: 50 grams of raw yam, 30 grams of natural sugarcane juice, 18 grams of natural sour pomegranate juice, and 4 raw egg yolks.

Efficacy: Moistens the lungs and relieves cough, nourishes yin and consolidates the lungs. It is suitable for deficiency of body fluid, dry cough due to lung dryness, which persists for a long time and does not heal after long-term treatment, and gradually leads to cough and asthma.

Usage: First boil the Chinese yam in water, after it clarifies, take a large bowl of the soup, then add sugarcane juice, pomegranate juice and egg yolk, stir constantly and mix well, divide into 3 times and take warm, do not overheat.

5. Erbaierdong Tea: 15 grams each of lily, bletilla striata, and stemona, 20 grams each of asparagus and ophiopogon.

Efficacy: Suitable for long-term cough due to insufficient lung yin.

Usage: Add water to boil the medicine to get the juice. After taking the juice, add appropriate amount of white sugar and drink it as tea several times a day.

6. Cough-relieving drink: 15 grams each of Ophiopogon japonicus, Schisandra chinensis, Codonopsis pilosula, and Astragalus membranaceus, and 150 grams of sugar.

Efficacy: Suitable for long-term cough caused by lung deficiency.

Usage: Put Ophiopogon japonicus, Schisandra chinensis, Codonopsis pilosula and Astragalus membranaceus into a container, add 300 ml of water, boil them together and drink as tea.