Respiratory Disease Diet Recipes

Steamed pear with Chinese prickly ash (remove the core of the pear and add 3 peppercorns and steam for 15 minutes, eat the pear and drink the soup, just pick out the peppercorns), warm sugar-free soy milk, add 2g of cooked lily powder, steamed iron bar yam, you can eat any of them, at least it will not aggravate the symptoms.； Third, dietary therapy only plays an auxiliary role. If the symptoms are not relieved or even worsened for 3 consecutive days, go to the hospital quickly and don’t bear it.

Speaking of which, I have encountered many pitfalls in diet therapy before. The most common one is to stew rock sugar and snow pears whenever I have a cough. As a result, the more I eat, the worse the cough becomes. Last winter, my best friend's 3-year-old child coughed for half a month after having the flu. She couldn't eat more than a bowl of rock-sugar pears every day. When I went to her house to touch the baby's little hands, they felt cold, and all she coughed up was white bubbles and thin phlegm. It was obviously a cold cough and she was given cooling pears. Wouldn't the more she eats, the heavier the baby would be? I asked her to switch to grilled oranges, put them on the gas stove with the skins on, until the skins were black and steamy, then let the oranges warm and peel the flesh for the baby to eat. She took 2 tangerines a day and almost stopped coughing in 3 days.

Speaking of which, someone must ask, what should I do if I can’t tell whether I’m cold or hot? If you're really unsure, just eat the most neutral ones, such as steamed pumpkin, sugar-free warm lotus root starch, and boiled white radish. These ingredients are mild in nature and won't offend any body type. They can also help moisturize mucous membranes and promote metabolism. Oh, by the way, regarding the issue of whether to add sugar or not, I talked to a friend from the nutrition department of the hospital before. She actually does not recommend that you follow the trend of making pear soup and Sichuan clam soup with three or four pieces of rock sugar. High sugar will increase the osmotic pressure of the respiratory mucosa, which will cause more phlegm secretion and worse coughing. This is the same as what Chinese medicine says "Sweetness can produce dampness", so no matter what recipe you use, add as little sugar as possible, and it is best not to add it.

If you can identify your symptoms, your prescription can be more targeted. For example, if you have a cough with yellow phlegm, a sore throat that makes it difficult to swallow, a red tongue with yellow coating, and it is obviously a heat syndrome, use 10g of fresh grass root + 10g of fresh reed root + half a Sydney pear cut into small pieces, boil 500ml of water and drink it warmly. I used sugar. After I became masculine last year, I coughed up yellow phlegm and couldn't sleep. After drinking it for 2 days, I felt much better. I checked the "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" and it was indeed mentioned that fresh reed root can clear away heat and promote fluid production, and its effect on relieving lung-heat cough and sore throat is well-founded. If you cough with white phlegm, are afraid of wind, and can't stop coughing as soon as you enter an air-conditioned room or blow cold wind, boil 3 slices of ginger + 2 pitted red dates + 2 chopped walnuts for 10 minutes, and eat it with water and ingredients. My old man has COPD, and he coughs up white phlegm and has chest tightness when he gets sick in winter. After drinking this for two years, the number of emergency room visits in winter has been reduced by half.

There is also a type of allergic respiratory problems, such as allergic rhinitis and allergic cough. There are actually more pitfalls here. A while ago, a fan left me a message saying that he had rhinitis and followed the online recipe to cook Tremella lily soup. As a result, he sneezed and coughed more violently. Later, he checked his allergens and found out that he was allergic to Alternaria. Dried lilies and fresh Tremella that have been soaked for more than 2 hours can easily breed spores of this fungus, which can actually induce allergies. This is also a point of difference between different schools of thought: traditional health regimen often recommends white fungus and lily to moisturize dryness, but allergists will recommend that during the acute stage of allergies, try to eat fresh, short-time processed ingredients, and avoid eating dry foods that have been soaked for too long. My experience is that if you have not checked the allergens, allergy attacks will occur. Don’t touch these dry foods during the period. Eat more steamed yam, pumpkin and millet porridge with a small amount of chopped cooked almonds. It is hypoallergenic and can help repair the respiratory mucosa. My colleague has a history of allergic rhinitis for 10 years, and it attacks in autumn. In the past two years, he drank yam and millet porridge every morning in autumn, and the number of attacks has been reduced by half.

There is also a lot of controversy about "fading things". For example, can you eat eggs and milk when you have a cough? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that in the acute stage of external infection, especially when you have a fever, high-protein foods will increase the burden on the spleen and stomach, so it is recommended to eat less ； However, Western medicine nutritionists believe that as long as you are not allergic to eggs and milk, proper protein supplementation can help your body recover. At this time, you really don’t need to stick to a certain school of thought. Just try it yourself. If you don’t feel the phlegm increases or the cough becomes more severe after eating, just eat normally. If you feel uncomfortable, stop eating. Your own physical experience will be the most accurate.

Oh, and there is another point that many people overlook. When your respiratory tract is uncomfortable, don’t eat too salty foods, especially high-salt foods such as pickled vegetables and soy meat. The salt will make the mucosal edema worse, and the symptoms of nasal congestion and sore throat will be aggravated. There was a young man who almost recovered from his cough. He ate a meal of soy bones because of the craving, and he went to the emergency department that night due to coughing. Don’t believe it, it’s really so effective.

In fact, respiratory diet therapy is really not that fancy. The core is to follow the temperament of the mucous membrane and don't put any burden on it. Warm, light, and fresh ones are the best. There is no need to pursue expensive cordyceps or wild medicinal materials. If the common ingredients in the kitchen are used correctly, they are better than anything else. Of course, I still have to say it again. Diet therapy is just a helping hand. If you cough until you can't breathe, have a fever for more than 3 days, or have blood in your sputum, don't hold on, see a doctor quickly, and don't delay serious treatment.