Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eating raw pears has the effects of clearing away heat and reducing fire, moistening dryness and reducing phlegm, and laxative. It can relieve or relieve dry throat, itching, pain, and hoarseness in patients with upper respiratory tract infections. and symptoms such as constipation and red urine. In addition, if you eat pears raw, you can better absorb the folic acid and vitamin C in them.
But if you want to achieve the effect of moistening the lungs, you should cut the pears into pieces and steam them with honey or rock sugar. It can nourish yin and moisturize the lungs, relieve cough and eliminate phlegm.
When treating a cough, you must consider what is causing the cough. Coughing itself is a form of rejection. Once you take care of the physical discomfort you need, your cough will naturally get better.
1. Infectious factors
1. Upper respiratory tract diseases cold, adenovirus infection, rhinitis or paranasal sinusitis, tonsillitis, acute and chronic pharyngitis, acute and chronic laryngitis, acute epiglottitis , laryngeal tuberculosis, etc.
2. Tracheal and bronchial diseases: acute and chronic bronchitis, endobronchial tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, etc.
3. Lung and pleural diseases: pneumonia: bacterial, viral, mycoplasmal, pulmonary mycosis, lung abscess, pulmonary cyst infection, tuberculosis, pleurisy, etc.
4. Infectious diseases and parasitic diseases: whooping cough, diphtheria, measles, influenza, paragonimiasis, pulmonary echinococcosis, hookworm, etc.
2. Physical factors
Cough can be caused by any physical factors such as obstruction, compression or pulling of the respiratory tract, causing wall irritation or lumen distortion and narrowing.
1. Respiratory obstruction, foreign bodies in the trachea or bronchus, and bronchial stenosis are common in tuberculosis, bronchial tumors, atelectasis, pulmonary edema, emphysema, alveolar proteinosis, alveolar microlithiasis, alveolar cancer, etc.
2. Respiratory tract compression, hilar or bronchial lymph node tuberculosis, mediastinal tumors, mediastinal lymphadenopathy, retrosternal goiter, esophageal diverticulum, esophageal tumors, lung tumors, pulmonary congestion, diffuse interstitial lung Fibrosis, pulmonary cyst, sarcoidosis, pneumoconiosis, pneumothorax, pleural effusion, pericardial effusion, pleural tumors, etc.
3. Chemical factors
All toxic and harmful irritating gases entering the respiratory tract will irritate the respiratory tract and cause coughing. Common ones include smoking, drinking cigarettes, and irritating industrial gases such as ammonia, chlorine, carbon dioxide, ozone, phosgene, nitrogen oxides, etc. It is also found in mist emitted by nitric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, formaldehyde, etc.
4. Allergic factors
Allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma, byssinosis, tropical eosinophilia, Louvreux syndrome, hay fever, angioedema, etc. .
5. Other factors
Pulmonary pulmonary disease caused by subdiaphragmatic abscess, diaphragmatic hernia, esophageal tracheal fistula, Wegener's granulomatosis, leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, uremia and connective tissue disease, etc. Infiltration etc.
It is best to treat the disease promptly according to the symptoms. However, during drug treatment, attention should be paid to avoiding the intake of antibiotics and hormones as much as possible. It is recommended to adjust the body through diet therapy.