Ingredients: 1 radish, 6 scallion whites, 15g ginger.
Method: Boil radish in three bowls of water until tender. Add scallion whites and ginger, simmer until reduced to one bowl. Consume entire mixture, including solids, in one serving.
Benefits: Promotes lung function, relieves surface symptoms, dissolves phlegm, and suppresses cough. Treats wind-cold cough with abundant frothy phlegm, chills, fatigue, and body aches.
Brown Sugar, Ginger, and Jujube Decoction for Wind-Cold Cough
Ingredients: 30g brown sugar, 15g fresh ginger, 30g red dates.
Method: Simmer with three bowls of water until reduced by half. Drink all at once. Recovery occurs upon developing a slight sweat.
Fresh Pear and Fritillary Bulb for Cough and Lung Abscess
Ingredients: 500g fresh pear, 6g fritillary bulb powder, 30g white sugar.
Method: Peel and halve the pear, remove seeds. Fill with fritillary powder and sugar, then steam in a bowl until tender. Eat morning and evening.
Effects: Clears heat, transforms phlegm, disperses nodules, and resolves exterior patterns.Used for cough or lung abscess presenting with chest pain, chills, cough, fever, dry mouth, parched throat, foul-smelling yellow phlegm, or bloody pus-like sputum.
Method: Wash radish, slice, place in bowl. Add honey, white pepper, and ephedra. Steam for 30 minutes. Consume hot in one sitting. Rest in bed until sweating occurs for recovery.
Efficacy: Induces sweating to dispel cold, stops coughing, and resolves phlegm. Treats wind-cold cough.
Radish and Pepper for Cough Relief and Phlegm Resolution
Ingredients: 1 daikon radish, 5 white peppercorns,3 slices ginger, 1 piece dried tangerine peel.
Method: Simmer with water for 30 minutes. Drink the decoction twice daily.
Efficacy: Descends qi, eliminates phlegm, treats cough with excessive phlegm.
Soy Milk Drink to Moisten Lungs, Calm Cough, and Dissolve Phlegm
Ingredients: Soybeans, rock sugar.
Method: Soak soybeans, grind into juice, bring to a boil, add sugar, and drink.
Drink 1 bowl daily in the morning on an empty stomach.
Efficacy: Strengthens spleen, soothes the middle burner, moistens dryness, and clears phlegm; clears lung heat and stops cough. Treats malnutrition-induced emaciation, lung heat cough, etc.
Drink 1 bowl daily on an empty stomach in the morning.
Benefits: Strengthens the spleen, soothes the stomach, moistens dryness, clears phlegm, and stops coughing. Treats malnutrition, emaciation, and lung-heat coughs.
Tofu Sugar for Cough Relief, Phlegm Reduction, and Asthma Relief
Ingredients: 500g tofu, 100g brown sugar, 100g white sugar.
Method: Hollow out the center of the tofu, fill with brown and white sugar, place in a bowl, and steam for 30 minutes. Consume entirely in one sitting. Repeat 4 times consecutively.
Benefits: Clears heat, generates fluids, moistens dryness, treats cough with phlegm and wheezing.
Sesame and Rock Sugar Water for Nighttime Cough
Ingredients: 15g raw sesame seeds, 10g rock sugar.
Method:Place sesame seeds and rock sugar in a bowl, pour boiling water over them, and drink.
Benefits: Moistens the lungs and promotes fluid production. Treats persistent nighttime coughing without phlegm.
Note: A handful of sesame seeds and 50g ginger, pounded together and boiled for juice, also provides the above benefits.
Steamed White Pear with Honey for Persistent Cough and Dry Throat
Ingredients: 1 large white pear,50g honey.
Method: Hollow out the pear, fill with honey, and steam until tender. Consume one pear morning and evening daily for several consecutive days.
Benefits: Generates fluids, moistens dryness, stops coughing, and dissolves phlegm. Treats chronic cough with dry throat and palms/soles heat due to lung dryness from yin deficiency.
Snow Pear Soup Nourishes Yin and Moistens Lungs
Ingredients: 25g lily bulbs,1 large snow pear, 20g rock sugar.
Method: Soak lily bulbs overnight in water. The next day, pour the lily bulbs and soaking water into a clay pot. Add over half a bowl of fresh water and simmer for 1.5 hours until the lily bulbs are tender. Add the peeled and diced snow pear along with rock sugar, then simmer for another 30 minutes.
Benefits: Nourishes yin, moistens lungs, calms the heart, and relieves cough. Ideal for chronic cough due to lung deficiency; also benefits lung and stomach health for healthy individuals.