5 foods and remedies to help treat allergic rhinitis

Allergic rhinitis has symptoms of runny nose, long-term nasal discharge can be cloudy white, fishy smell. If the nasal discharge is cloudy, it is due to external wind heat; if the nasal discharge is clear, it is due to external wind cold; the tip of the nose (nasal plug) is red, swollen, itchy, scratched easily to form pimples, usually due to blood heat invading the lungs.

When the nostrils are sick, it is necessary to carefully consider whether the disease is simply local or related to the whole body, or is due to a disease transferred from other organs: When breathing, seeing the nostrils flare, is mostly due to heat, wind, and fire blocking the lungs; asthma, dry nasal breathing, a serious disease mostly seen in children; if the illness lasts for a long time and the nostrils flare when breathing is a sign of lung qi depletion (lung qi exhaustion).

Allergic rhinitis is characterized by frequent recurrence, especially when the weather changes, eating is not suitable, living conditions are poor...

Nature has blessed Vietnam with many medicinal herbs that can be used as vegetables and dishes. They are cheap, easy to find, easy to grow, and effective in treating allergic rhinitis.

Principle: Avoid foods that cause allergies, avoid contact with allergens such as animal hair, pollen, house dust...

Some medicinal dishes help prevent and support the treatment of allergic rhinitis:

1. Perilla helps treat allergic rhinitis

Scientific name: Elsholtzia cristata, also known as white to, ginger, fake to... Properties and channels entered: Spicy, slightly bitter taste, warm properties. Enters the liver and lung meridians.

Effect: Clears the exterior, dispels wind, detoxifies, and diagnoses.

Glass of medicinal herbs to support the treatment of allergic rhinitis.

Uses: Treats colds, heat, pimples, and allergies.

Dosage: 10-16g dried perilla, 20-30g fresh perilla.

Use:

Making the dish:Make raw herbs, mixed salad with perilla leaves, jelly.

Make medicine to cure allergic rhinitis: 12g of Vietnamese balm, 8g of five-color flower (purple flower), 12g of mint leaves, 12g of basil flowers. Boil and drink in 2 doses, drink warm 30 minutes after eating.

2. Perilla

Scientific name: Perilla frutescens (L.) Britt, also known as purple basil, red basil... Properties and channels entered: Spicy taste, warm properties. Enters the spleen and lung channels.

Effect: Dispel wind and cold, regulate qi, relieve pain.

Indications: Treatment of allergic rhinitis, asthma, rheumatism, cough.

Dosage: Use dry 10-16g, fresh 20-30g.

Perilla is effective in allergic rhinitis.

Use:

- Cooking:Use as a raw herb, salad mixed with perilla, Vietnamese balm... as an herb in dishes like porridge to relieve colds.

- Make medicine to treat allergic rhinitis:

+ 1 handful of fresh perilla leaves, brewed in water and drunk daily. Not for people who sweat a lot or have low blood pressure.

+ 9g perilla leaves, 1 slice of dried ginger (3g). Steep and drink in 2 doses per day.

- Making fumigation medicine:Boil 1 handful of perilla, 1 handful of basil, 1 handful of patchouli... to steam the nose area.

3. Kudzu

Scientific name: Kudzu plant has the scientific name Pueraria thosonii Benth, belongs to the legume family - Fabaceae. The plant grows wild or is planted everywhere to get its tubers to eat, make kudzu powder and make medicine.

Prescription name:Powder (raw arrowroot powder), can cat can (dried arrowroot), guava cat can (grilled arrowroot), sinh cat chap (raw arrowroot water).

Parts used:The roots are used as medicine, and the flowers of the plant are also used as medicine.

Preparation:Wash the root with clean water, slice thinly and use raw. Or pound to get the juice or roast to use or grind the fresh root to get powder.

Properties and channels:Spicy, sweet taste, neutral properties. Enters the stomach and bladder meridians.

Uses:The medicine enters the Yangming meridian, relaxes muscles, reduces heat, and elevates the stomach qi.

Arrowroot tea cures allergic rhinitis.

- Dish:Arrowroot tea: 15g arrowroot powder, cures allergic rhinitis, colds, headaches, stiff shoulders, and respiratory diseases.

Note: Eat hot, avoid wind for 1-2 hours after eating.

- Prescription:Ginseng. Origin: Hoa Te Cuc Phuong.

Ingredients of the medicine:12g of Codonopsis pilosula, 12g of Perilla leaf, 12g of Platycodon grandiflorum, 12g of Atractylodes Rhizome, 12g of Pinellia ternata, 12g of Poria cocos, 08g of tangerine peel, 08g of licorice, 08g of Platycodon grandiflorum, 08g of Polygala tenuifolia, 08g of Magnolia officinalis.

Use:Grind into powder, drink 8 - 12g per day. Add 7 slices of ginger and 1 jujube. Can be used to boil and drink 1 dose per day, divided into 3 times.

Effect:Tonify Qi, relieve exterior symptoms, regulate Qi, and dissolve phlegm.

Main treatment:Supports treatment of patients with exogenous wind-cold, with phlegm and dampness inside, fever, chills, headache, stuffy nose, cough with phlegm, chest fullness, white tongue coating, weak pulse.

According to Hòa Tế Quốc Phương: The medicine is used for people with seasonal colds, fever, headache, cough with phlegm, difficulty speaking, runny nose, epigastric fullness, vomiting and watery vomiting. The medicine is also used for people with phlegmy cough when having seasonal colds, and weak stomach and intestines on normal days.

The drug is used to treat allergic rhinitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, alcohol poisoning, depression, asthma, and vomiting.

4. Steamed eggs with chives

Ingredient:1 handful of chives, 2 eggs.

Making:Wash and chop chives, crack eggs into a bowl, add chives and beat well, add some seasoning. Steam the bowl of eggs and chives until cooked, eat while still warm. Eat 2-3 times a week.

Chives can be used to make other dishes such as chives soup... depending on each person's taste.

Steamed eggs with chives to treat allergic rhinitis.

5. Yam and Coix porridge

Ingredient:Chinese yam 30g, Coix 30g, lotus seeds without core 15g, 10 jujubes, rice 100g, cook all into porridge.

Use:Used for people with weak spleen and stomach, fatigue, poor appetite, indigestion, chronic allergic rhinitis.

Chinese yam helps treat allergic rhinitis.

Above are some medicinal dishes commonly used in allergic rhinitis. There are many other traditional Vietnamese medicines such as: Fish mint, horse head, honeysuckle, dandelion, five-color flower, red beetroot... which are very good for people with allergic rhinitis. Depending on the patient's condition and the conditions of the medicinal plants, choose the most suitable dishes for the patient, in order to achieve the best disease prevention and treatment.

In addition to diet, people with allergic rhinitis need to keep their nose and mouth clean; use nasal drops and nasal sprays made from the five-color flower plant: Purple five-color flower plant (pigweed plant), extract the five-color essential oil to mix with nasal sprays.

Self-massage the acupoints in the nose and mouth area helps open the orifices, nourish the lungs, strengthen the spleen, and strengthen the body to dispel evil.

Stay positive, exercise regularly, take medication and see a doctor when necessary./.