Ingredients: Rock sugar, dried tangerine peel (to taste).
Method: Simmer rock sugar and dried tangerine peel in cold water over low heat for over 2 hours. Drink as a tea substitute.
Benefits: Helps relieve cough and eliminate phlegm.
Mustard Greens and Ginger Soup
Ingredients: 80g fresh mustard greens, 10g fresh ginger, a pinch of salt.
Method: Wash mustard greens, cut into small pieces. Slice ginger. Add 4 bowls of water. Simmer until reduced to 2 bowls, then season with salt. Take twice daily for 3 consecutive days for noticeable effect.
Benefits: Dispels wind and cold, eliminates phlegm, and relieves cough.
Radish and Scallion White Soup
Ingredients: 1 radish, 6 scallion whites, 15g ginger.
Method: Boil the radish in 3 bowls of water until tender. Add scallion whites and ginger, simmer until reduced to 1 bowl. Consume the entire mixture, including solids, in one serving.
Effects: Promotes lung function, relieves surface symptoms, stops coughing, and dissolves phlegm. Effective for wind-cold coughs with abundant frothy phlegm.
>Platycodon and Licorice Decoction
Ingredients: 9g platycodon root, 8g raw licorice, 9g Zhejiang fritillary bulb, 6g apricot kernels, 9g each of ophiopogon tuber and white茅根.
Method: Simmer 1.5 bowls of water down to 1 bowl. Take before meals, twice daily.
Benefits: Relieves cough and dissolves phlegm. Effective for cough with yellow phlegm and dry throat.Stewed Papaya Ingredients: 1 papaya (tree-ripened), honey to taste. Preparation: Peel papaya, add honey, and simmer over low heat until tender. Benefits: Relieves cough and dissolves phlegm, suitable for dry cough with scant phlegm.
Aged Vinegar with Rock Sugar
Ingredients: 500g rock sugar, 500ml aged vinegar.
Method: Place rock sugar in a pot, add aged vinegar, bring to a boil until sugar dissolves completely. Let cool before use. Take orally twice daily.
Benefits: Relieves coughing and dissolves phlegm, effective for coughing with phlegm and wheezing.