Because the causes of cough are different, there are many types of coughs. One of them is lung heat cough, which is most likely to occur in the elderly, children, and people with weak bodies. Nowadays, there are many methods to treat this disease, and today we recommend dietary therapy. The following foods are very effective in alleviating lung heat cough.

1. Duck eggs

Duck eggs are cool in nature and sweet in taste, and can clear lung heat. ‘Ri Hua Zi Ben Cao’ also believes that duck eggs ‘clear the heat in the heart, abdomen, and chest’. In ‘Yi Lin Zuan Yao’, it was introduced that ‘duck eggs nourish the heart and clear the lungs, stop heat cough, and eat after boiling in boiling water, which clears lung fire.’ It is suitable for people with lung heat cough. They should eat it.

2, Silver ear

Silver ear, also known as white ear, is sweet and tasteless, with a mild nature and no toxicity, enters the lung, stomach, and kidney meridians, and has the effects of generating fluid and moistening the lungs, invigorating the Qi and promoting blood circulation, nourishing the yin and stomach, and benefiting the brain and strengthening the heart. It is suitable for symptoms such as lung heat cough, dry cough, gastrointestinal dryness and constipation.

3, Lohan fruit

罗汉果 clears the lungs and relieves cough, and is suitable for people with lung heat cough and wind-heat cough. You can take 1 lohan fruit and 15 grams of dried persimmon, and decoct them together for food.

4, Winter melon

Wash the rice clean, put it in a pot with winter melon and 1000 milliliters of water, boil it with high heat first, then simmer it with low heat, until the melon is soft and the rice is cooked, and the congee is thick, then turn off the fire. This porridge is helpful for clearing heat and promoting diuresis and weight loss. It is very suitable for patients with summer heat, edema, and lung heat cough, and can play a role in clearing heat and promoting diuresis.

5, Tomato

Tomatoes have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, and are very effective for resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Therefore, if people are usually attacked by cold or flu, they can eat more tomatoes, which also has a significant therapeutic effect on lung heat cough, sore throat, dry mouth, and mouth ulcers.

6, Luffa

Luffa has the effects of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying, removing dampness and relieving itching, promoting meridian and collaterals, and diuretic hemostasis. The seeds of luffa are of mild nature and bitter-sweet taste, which have the effects of clearing heat, resolving phlegm, and killing worms. For people with lung heat cough and yellow, thick phlegm in summer, 6 grams of luffa seeds can be crushed and soaked in boiling water to drink as tea.

7, Soy milk

Soak soybeans in water, grind them into juice, boil it, then add rock sugar and drink it. Drink 1 bowl in the morning on an empty stomach. It is suitable for invigorating the spleen and broadening the middle, removing dryness and dampness; clearing the lungs and relieving cough, and resolving phlegm. It is used to treat malnutrition, emaciation, lung heat cough, and other conditions.

8, Ficus carica

Ficus carica is of mild nature and sweet taste, its roots and leaves are of mild nature and taste faint and astringent, which can invigorate the spleen, digest food, moisten the intestines and relieve constipation, relieve sore throat and swelling, and detoxify and anticancer. It is mainly used for dyspepsia, constipation, hemorrhoids, prolapse of the rectum, boils and carbuncles, sore throat pain, and cough with lung heat due to yin deficiency.

9, Rock sugar

Rock sugar nourishes yin and generates fluid, moistens the lungs and relieves cough, and has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on dry cough due to lung dryness, dry cough without phlegm, and cough with blood. It is used for cough and asthma caused by lung dryness, lung deficiency, wind-cold fatigue, malaria in children, lockjaw dysentery, mouth ulcers, and wind-heat toothache.

10, Banana

Banana has the effects of nourishing and removing dryness, stopping heat cough. The skin of ripe banana is peeled and cut into pieces, then cooked with rock sugar and 2 bowls of water to make syrup. Bananas also have the function of clearing the intestines and stomach, and can expel phlegm and sputum from the intestines.

11, Honey

Honey can moisten the lungs and has a certain cough-relieving effect. You can decoct 30 grams of stemona root into a decoction, pour the juice over 60 grams of honey, and simmer it over low heat to form a paste. Take a spoonful of honey paste, dissolve it with boiling water, and drink it. Taking 50 grams of honey mixed with boiling water twice a day can relieve dry cough and constipation; if 0.3 grams of bingpian powder is added and taken together, it can treat hoarseness.

12, Lily

Lily fresh products contain mucilage, which has the effects of nourishing dryness and clearing heat. Traditional Chinese medicine often uses it to treat symptoms such as dry cough or lung heat cough, which can be effective. By mixing fresh lily with honey and steaming it, then chewing it, lung heat cough can be treated.