How to treat bad breath and phlegm in the morning with diet?

If you wake up in the morning after a night's sleep and find that you have severe bad breath and thick phlegm, it means that your body may be suffering from inflammation. The best way to alleviate this situation is to use diet therapy, which is both nutritious and can regulate the body's balance.

1. Drink lotus seed soup to remove heart heat: take 30 grams of lotus seeds (without removing the lotus core), 15 grams of cassia bark (wrapped in gauze), add appropriate amount of rock sugar, boil in water, eat the lotus seeds and drink the soup. Lotus seeds can nourish the spleen and stop diarrhea, benefit the kidneys and astringe semen, nourish the heart and calm the mind. Gardenia jasminoides can relieve fire and relieve restlessness, clear away heat and promote urination, cool blood and detoxify.

2. Drink mung bean porridge to remove stomach fire: use 30 grams of gypsum powder, appropriate amounts of polished rice and mung beans. First boil the gypsum with water, then filter out the residue, take the clear liquid, and then add polished rice and mung beans to cook porridge. Gypsum can relieve muscles and clear away heat, relieve restlessness and quench thirst. It is used to treat stomach fire headaches, toothaches, excessive heat and toxicity, spots and rashes, mouth sores, etc. Mung beans are cooling and detoxifying, and are especially suitable for people with hot constitutions and those who are prone to sores.

3. Drink pear water to remove lung heat: Take 10 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa and mash it into powder. Peel and cut 2 pears into pieces. Add appropriate amount of rock sugar and stew it with appropriate amount of water. Fritillaria cirrhosa can clear away heat and moisten the lungs, and is used for symptoms such as lung heat and dry cough, dry cough and little sputum. Pears also have the effects of promoting salivation, moisturizing dryness, and clearing away heat.

4. Prunella Vulgaris tea to relieve liver fire: 12 grams of Prunella Vulgaris, 10 grams of mulberry leaves, and 10 grams of chrysanthemum. Add appropriate amount of water to the Prunella Vulgaris and mulberry leaves, soak for half an hour, then boil for half an hour, finally add chrysanthemum and boil for 3 minutes. It can be drunk as tea. Prunella Vulgaris has the effects of clearing the liver and improving eyesight, clearing away heat and dispersing stagnation. It is an important medicine for clearing liver fire and dispersing depression. It is mainly used to treat liver fire inflammation, red and swollen eyes, headache, dizziness and other symptoms.

5. Eat pork kidneys to remove kidney fire: Take 2 pork kidneys, 15 grams each of wolfberry and cornus officinalis, put them in a casserole and cook until the pork kidneys are cooked, eat the pork kidneys and drink the soup. Animal kidneys have the function of nourishing the kidney and replenishing essence, which is a concrete manifestation of the theory of "nourishing organs with organs" in traditional Chinese medicine. Lycium barbarum and cornus officinalis also have the effect of nourishing kidney yin.