Help pregnant women and young children stop coughing.
Besides specific medications, your daily diet also plays an important role in curing your cough.
For pregnant women, it is recommended to use:
1. Pears mixed with rock sugar
Peel the outer skin off fresh pears and cut them into small, bite-sized pieces. Then mix them with an appropriate amount of rock sugar and steam them in a pot. Consuming this dish can help alleviate persistent coughs.
2.
After washing and draining the orange, use chopsticks to make a small hole in the center and put a pinch of salt inside. Then, place the orange in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes. When you take the orange out, while it's still hot, peel it and eat it. The orange peel can also be chopped and added to a teapot for brewing.
3. White radish salad with honey
Cut the white radish into small, bite-sized pieces. Then put them in a clean, dry jar and pour in some honey. Seal tightly and let the radish soak in the honey for three days. Add some rock sugar for preservation. Each time you want to eat it, take some out and mix it with a little warm water to drink; it will have a very good effect.
4. Sugarcane
Cut the sugarcane into pieces and boil it with sugar. If you don't use it all, you can store it in the refrigerator and mix it with a little warm water each time you want to drink it.
5. You shouldn't eat dried nuts.
Absolutely avoid foods like watermelon seeds, pumpkin seeds, and sunflower seeds.
6. Drink plenty of warm water regularly.
Children should avoid:
1. Avoid cold food and drinks.
Traditional Chinese medicine holds that "cold foods harm the lungs," indicating that the lungs are the first organ affected by consuming cold food and drinks. Since coughing is largely related to the lungs, consuming cold foods while coughing can easily lead to lung congestion, worsening the cough and making it more difficult to treat in the long run.
2. Avoid fatty and sugary foods.
The main cause of coughing is internal heat, especially in children. Daily meals high in fat and sugar can cause internal heat, worsening the cough and thickening phlegm, making it difficult to expel. Therefore, when children cough, they should be given light, easily digestible foods, ideally lotus seed porridge or barley porridge.
3. Avoid eating tangerines and kumquats.
Many people still believe that tangerines and kumquats have cough-relieving properties, so they give them to children to suck on or eat when they cough. In reality, only the peel of tangerines and kumquats helps to treat coughs, while the pulp of these fruits actually increases heat and phlegm. The fruits recommended for children with coughs are pears and red apples.
For those suffering from a cough, regardless of the cause, it's essential to immediately eliminate foods such as shrimp, coconut (including products made from coconut), eggs, peanuts, cashews, oils and fats, overly sweet foods, sugarcane juice, iced drinks, puffed rice, and smoking.
According to VTV - NT
