Food to avoid when coughing 咳嗽不宜的食物

Cough is a common symptom which takes few days up to a month or more to recover depends on the conditions. In addition to physical condition, environmental factor, cough is closely related to dietary intake. Control your dietary during healing period may achieve multiplier effect.

1.      Avoid cold food and drinks

Avoid cold food and drinks when coughing. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, when the body affected by the cold, may irritate the lung and cough mostly caused by lung disease. Consuming cold food or beverages at this moment may easily cause lung obstruction, worsen the symptoms and lack of healing. Children or adults cough mostly accompanied by phlegm and sputum amount related to spleen. Excessive consumption of cold food may affect spleen and resulting decreased in spleen function.

2.      Avoid fat-sweet food

Cough mostly caused by heat in lung, especially in children. Excessive intake of fat-sweet food will produce body heat, aggravate cough, viscous sputum and difficult to expectorate. Besides that, reduce intake of oily or fried food. Oily or fried food may increase burden of the stomach, produce sputum and drag the healing process.

3.      Avoid seafood especially prawn and crab

Cough patient who consume fishy food may aggravate the condition due to fishy smell stimulate the respiratory tract and fish protein allergies. Those who allergies to some of the fish or egg protein should avoid such food.

4.      Avoid sweet-sour food

Acidic food may convergence sputum, difficult to expectorate and cause persistent coughing. Consuming sweet food may also cause inflammation difficult to heal.

5.      Avoid citrus food

Many people believe that citrus helps in relieving cough and reducing sputum. In fact, orange peel do have the effect of relieving cough and reducing sputum but the orange meat produce heat and generating sputum. Citrus fruits include grapefruit, tangerine, orange and so on.

6.      Avoid salty food

Salty food induce cough and aggravate cough.

7.      Avoid peanuts, chocolate etc.

The above food contains fat and may produce sputum after intake and aggravate cough.

8.      Avoid supplements

Many parents give their children supplement due to weak constitution, but children should stop consuming such supplements when coughing to avoid healing difficulty.

咳嗽是一种常见的症状，轻则几天即愈，重则可达一个月以上，方能痊愈。因此要咳嗽受到控制，除了自身的体质，环境因素，还与我们的饮食有密切的关系。在咳嗽未愈期间注意饮食调理，可以收到事半功倍的效果。

 

一、忌寒凉食物

咳嗽时不宜吃冷饮或冰冻饮料。中医认为身体一旦受了寒，就会伤及人体的肺脏，而咳嗽大多是因肺部疾患引起的。此时如果再吃冷饮，就容易造成肺气闭塞，症状加重，日久不愈。不论是儿童还是成人，咳嗽多会伴有痰，痰的多少又跟脾有关。过多进食寒凉食物，还会伤及脾胃，造成脾的功能下降。

 

二、忌肥甘厚味

咳嗽其中一个因素是肺热引起，儿童尤其如此。日常饮食中多吃肥甘厚味会产生内热，加重咳嗽，且痰多粘稠，不易咳出。此外，油炸食物也不宜多吃。因为油炸食品会加重胃肠负担，滋生痰液，使咳嗽难以痊愈。

 

三、忌鱼腥虾蟹

咳嗽患者在进食鱼腥类食品后咳嗽会加重，这与腥味刺激呼吸管道和对鱼虾食品的蛋白过敏有关。尤其是对某些鱼、蛋过敏的成人或儿童更应注意避免这类食物。

 

四、忌甜酸食物

酸食会敛痰，使痰不易咳出，导致咳嗽难愈。多吃甜食会使炎症难以痊愈。

 

五、忌食用橘子类水果

许多人认为橘子是止咳化痰的，其实，橘皮确有止咳化痰的功效，但橘肉反而会生热生痰。橘子类水果包括了柚子、桔子、柑、橙等。

 

六、忌吃得太咸

吃得太咸易诱发咳嗽或使咳嗽加重。

 

七、忌花生、瓜子、巧克力等

上述食品含油脂较多，食后易滋生痰液，使咳嗽加重。

 

八、忌食用补品

不少家长会给体质虚弱的孩子服用补品，但孩子咳嗽未愈时应停服补品，以免使咳嗽难愈。

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Treat a cough by using herbs 治咳嗽的草药

Glycyrrhiza Uralensis Radix 甘草

Glycyrrhiza uralensis, also known as Chinese liquorice, common used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Glycyrrhiza Uralensis Radix consists of the dried roots and rhizomes of Glycyrrhiza glabra L. It has been used in clinical medicine to moisture and relaxing, neutralize strong medicine, detoxification, ease pain, antispasmodic, modify the taste, relieve cough and reduce phlegm.

For throat swollen and painful, cough with sputum, palpitation and shortness of breath, weak spleen and stomach, fatique and loss of energy, gastrointestinal ulcer, cramps in abdominal and limps, healing of sore and carbuncle, alleviate poisonous or strong medicine, treat food poisoning and others.

甘草是一种传统的中药材，用途广泛。甘草的干燥根及地下根状茎，在中医学中被临床运用于滋润缓和，中和烈药，解毒、镇痛、解痉、矫味、镇咳祛痰等。

用于咽喉肿痛、咳嗽痰多、心悸气短、脾胃虚弱、倦怠乏力、肠胃道溃疡、脘腹、四肢挛急疼痛，痈肿疮毒，缓解药物毒性、烈性，食物中毒等。

Radix Platycodon Grandiflorum 桔梗

The root of this species is used extensively as an  an expectorant and antitussive used to treat coughs, colds, upper respiratory infections, sore throats, tonsillitis, and chest congestion. In Chinese traditional medicine, Radix Platycodon has been used to treat cough with sputum, tonsillitis, pertussis, and asthma. Also used to treat stomatitis, peptic ulcers, and chronic inflammatory diseases.

此植物的根部被广泛用于镇咳祛痰，可治疗伤风咳嗽，上呼吸道感染，咽喉痛，扁桃体炎和胸闷。桔梗在传统中医里被用于治疗痰咳，扁桃体炎，百日咳和哮喘。也用于治疗胃溃疡，口腔炎和慢性炎症性疾病。

Radix Stemona Sessilifolia 百部

Stemona sessilifolia (Miq.) Miq., Stemona japonica (Bl.) Miq. or Stemona tuberosa Lour., is a plant of the Stemonaceae family; the dried tuberous root is used as a medicine. Its Chinese medicinal name is Baibu.

Pharmacological studies indicate that Stemona sessilifolia has anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, antitussive, antiasthmatic, parasiticidal effects, etc. In traditional Chinese medicine theory, Baibu moistens the lungs, stops coughing, and kills parasites, etc.

百部，百部科植物直立百部，蔓生百部或对叶百部，以干燥块根入药。

药理研究显示，百部有抗菌、消炎、镇咳、平喘、灭虱等作用。在传统中医里，百部可润肺止咳和杀虫等。

Bulbus Fritillaria Cirrhosa 川贝母

Fritillaria，precious chinese herbs for moistening lung and suppressing cough. It has been used for generations and the efficacy is remarkable. Bulbus Fritillaria Cirrhosa not only relieving cough and reducing sputum, also raise Yin, protect and moisten lung and remove heat, is a remedy for chronic cough and asthma. It can be found in Chinese medicine prescription for treatment of acute bronchitis, bronchial inflammation, tuberculosis and other diseases.

川贝母，润肺止咳的名贵中药材，应用历史悠久，疗效卓著，驰名中外。由于川贝母不仅具有良好的止咳化痰功效，而且能养肺阴、宣肺、润肺而清肺热，是一味治疗久咳痰喘的良药，因此，在许多治疗急性气管炎、支气管炎、肺结核等病症的中药方剂或中成药制剂中都有川贝。

Herba Mentha Haplocalyx 薄荷

Herba Mentha Haplocalyx, also known as mint. It has significant effects on throat clearing, common used for sore throat due to wind-heat, also have wind-heat evacuation effect, for treatment of exogenous wind-heat, headache, red eyes, sore throat and swollen, flatulence, mouth sores, toothache, sore scabies, urticaria.

薄荷，为唇形科薄荷属植物。薄荷清利咽喉作用显着，主要用于风热咽痛，兼有疏散风热作用。治外感风热，头痛，目赤，咽喉肿痛，食滞气胀，口疮，牙痛，疮疥，瘾疹。

Folium Eriobotrya Japonica 枇杷叶

Folium Eriobotrya Japonica, also known as Loquat Leave or Pi Pa Ye. Its dried leaves have commonly been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine prescriptions as an antitussive and anti-inflammatory agent to clear-away lung heat, eliminate phlegm, lower the adverse-rising energy, relieve cough and regulate the stomach to restrain vomiting skin diseases, as well as in Japanese folk medicine as a diuretic, digestive and antipyretic agent to treat skin diseases, relieve inflammation, pain, cough and sputa.

 

蔷薇科植物枇杷，其干燥叶在传统中药处方用于镇咳消炎剂以清肺热，祛痰，降低逆行能量，止咳，调节肠胃以抑制呕吐皮肤疾病，在日本民间医药作为利尿，助消化和解热剂以治皮肤疾病，减轻炎症、疼痛、咳嗽和痰。

 

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Types of Cough 咳嗽类型

- Types of Cough in Traditional Chinese Medicine View

Wind-Cold Cough

Dry cough at night. Most common caused by exogenous cold. The symptoms include heavy cough, thin and white sputum, associated with fear of cold, no sweat, headache, nasal congestion, sneeze, clear and thin mucus, itchy throat, no dry-mouth and others. White coating tongue, mostly associated with fear of cold. 

Wind-Heat Cough

The symptoms include continual cough, hacking cough, thick yellow sticky sputum, associated with heatiness and sweating, headache, sore throat, thirst, sticky and yellow mucus. Red tongue with yellow coating.


External Fire

The symptoms include dry cough no sputum or less but sticky sputum，difficult to cough up or scanty bloody phlegm, associated with dry and itchy throat, dry lips and nasal and others.  

Wet Cough

Most common in weak elderly. The symptoms include heavy and hacking cough, thick and sticky sputum in grey-white, worsen after consuming sweet or oily food, associated with chest fullness, short of breath, poor appetite, fatigue, loose stool and others.

Chronic Cough

The symptoms include enduring cough, short cough or scanty bloody phlegm, associated with dampness and heat, spontaneous sweating, fatigue and others.

Lung Qi Deficiency Cough

Most common in those with inadequate lung and weak body. The symptoms include chronic cough, thin white and little sputum, associated with asthma, weakness, spontaneous sweating, palpitations, pale, thin and white coating tongue, weak pulse and others. Mostly happen to children and elderly. 

- 中医角度的咳嗽类型


风寒咳嗽

干咳，晚间多见。多系外感风寒所致，也成为凉咳嗽。表现为咳嗽声重、痰色白稀薄，伴有畏寒、不出汗、头痛、鼻塞音重、打喷嚏、流清涕、咽喉痒、口不干等症状。患者舌苔白，多伴有怕冷现象。

风热咳嗽

此类咳嗽的特点是频咳、咳声洪亮、痰黄黏稠，伴有发热汗出、头痛、咽痛、口渴、鼻涕黄浊而黏稠等症状。患者舌质红、舌苔黄。

风燥咳嗽

此类咳嗽表现为干咳无痰，或痰少而黏、不易咳出，或痰中有血丝，伴有咽干喉痒、鼻唇干燥等。

痰湿咳嗽

此类咳嗽以体弱年长者居多，特点是咳声重浊，痰多而黏腻、色灰白，进甘甜油腻食物后加重，伴有胸闷、呼吸急促、食少、体倦、便溏等症状。

久咳阴伤

此类咳嗽的特点是久咳干咳，咳声短促，或痰中夹有血丝，常伴有午后颧红潮热、盗汗、神疲等症状。

肺气虚咳

此类咳嗽多见于平素体弱、肺气不足的患者，表现为咳嗽日久不愈，痰少而色白清稀，伴有气喘、无力、自汗、心悸，且面色苍白、舌质淡、苔薄白、脉细弱无力等。以儿童和年长者居多。

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