Protecting the lungs is the primary task of health care. The human body inhales oxygen through the lungs all the time and exhales carbon dioxide. Because of this, germs, microorganisms, dust, metal particles and toxic substances in waste gas in nature can easily enter the lungs through breathing and stimulate trachea, bronchus and lung tissue. These substances accumulate in lung tissue, which not only damages the lung, but also affects the health of other organs in the body through blood.
The so-called deep breathing is the combination of chest and abdomen breathing, which can expel residual gas and other metabolites from the lungs and inhale more fresh air to supply oxygen needed by various organs and improve or enhance organ function.
The specific method is: choose a place with fresh air and do it 2-3 times a day. Thoracoabdominal deep breathing is similar to breathing exercises in yoga. When inhaling deeply, tuck in the abdomen first, then tuck in the chest. After reaching the limit, hold your breath for a few seconds and exhale gradually. When exhaling, contract the chest first, then the abdomen, and try to expel the gas from the lungs. Breathe in and out repeatedly for 3-5 minutes each time.
Many people know the benefits of deep breathing, but it is easily overlooked that coughing a few times when you are not sick is also a positive health care action, which can promote lung cleaning, enhance immunity and protect the respiratory tract from loss. Cough is a protective reflex action, which can eliminate foreign bodies or secretions in the respiratory tract, and these substances are one of the causes of lung diseases. The specific method is: after getting up, taking a lunch break or sleeping every day, take a deep breath in the air leisure place, slowly raise your arms when taking a deep breath, and then cough actively, so that the airflow is ejected from your nose and mouth, and then your arms droop. Repeat this for 8- 10 times, and try to discharge the secretions in the respiratory tract.
Cough in spring has a good diet.
Cold and cough are mostly induced by wind and cold, and the temperature is not constant, which makes the human body uncomfortable. At the beginning of coughing, the nose is clear, sneezing repeatedly, and the throat is itchy. You can take apricot cakes. Take a proper amount of flour, ferment and knead it into 3-5 pieces; Soak almond 15g, peel and grind into powder, mix well with brown sugar, spread on the cake surface, then wash 3-5 fresh perilla leaves, cover the cake, steam the cake in a pan, and eat it when the cake is cooked. Almonds are bitter and warm to relieve cough, perilla leaves are warm and fragrant, apricot cakes are sweet and easy to take, 1-2 times a day.
Wind-heat cough, the temperature rises in spring, and there are many opportunities to infect upper respiratory tract inflammation. Cough is mostly wind-heat type, with yellow or little phlegm, red sore throat, yellow dry mouth and even low fever. You can eat honeysuckle to wash eggs: use a fresh egg and put it in a bowl; Boil honeysuckle 15g in 200 ml water for 5min, and mix the juice with eggs. Eat it while it is hot. Honeysuckle is sweet in taste and cold in nature. It has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, diminishing inflammation and clearing fire to treat sore throat. This prescription is simple and easy to take. Take it once every morning. You can also eat almond porridge: take almond 10g and peel it; 15g loquat leaves, depilated and washed; Wash the rice, add water and cook with almond loquat juice, and take it once a day when it is cooked. Almonds relieve cough, loquat leaves clear away heat and moisten lungs to relieve cough.
Cough due to qi deficiency is mostly chronic and prone to occur in spring. As the saying goes, "the grass grows and the warbler flies." Among them, there is cough and asthma caused by lung qi deficiency, that is, emphysema caused by chronic cough, which is characterized by cough, dyspnea, shortness of breath during activities, language weakness and other signs of impaired lung respiratory function. Walnut ginseng soup can be taken at the onset: 20g of walnut kernel (without peeling), 6g of ginseng (or 20g of codonopsis pilosula) and 3 slices of ginger. Add appropriate amount of water, decoct together, take 200ml of juice, remove ginger, add a little rock sugar, once a day, and take it before going to bed. Walnut warms and tonifies the kidney, astringes the lung and relieves asthma, and ginseng is effective for cough and asthma due to deficiency cold, such as excessive phlegm or blood in phlegm.
Cough due to yin deficiency refers to those who have a history of tuberculosis in the past, or have lung lesions, and often have symptoms such as cough with excessive phlegm, dry mouth and throat, night sweats or hemoptysis, which are mostly caused by lung yin deficiency. When this cough occurs, you can take Bufei Ejiao porridge to relieve or eliminate the symptoms. Take 30g of glutinous rice, almond10g, donkey-hide gelatin15g, and aristolochia10g. First, put the almonds and aristolochia into water and fry them until they are cooked. Remove the dregs, get juice and cook porridge with glutinous rice. Colla Corii Asini will be turned into juice. Add crystal sugar to the porridge and take it. Aristolochia can clear lung, relieve cough and asthma, Ejiao can replenish blood and stop bleeding, almond can relieve cough and asthma, and glutinous rice can replenish blood.
Phlegm-dampness cough is mostly chronic cough, with abundant phlegm and light white color; The stool is thin, the appetite is poor, and even edema, and many elderly people suffer from chronic bronchitis. You can take perilla, poria cocos and coix seed porridge, which can reduce the trouble of excessive phlegm, improve symptoms and promote disease relief. Perilla frutescens 15g, coix seed 60g, Poria cocos powder 15g, boiled in porridge. Perillae is wrapped in clean gauze, discarded when eating, and taken every night. Perilla frutescens reduces qi and expectorant, Poria cocos infiltrates dampness and expectorant, and Coix lachryma-jobi promotes diuresis to reduce swelling.
People who cough usually avoid irritating food, such as spicy food, cigarettes and alcohol, and keep warm. The above therapy can take effect in time for patients with mild illness, and can be used as adjuvant therapy for patients with severe illness to speed up recovery. People who cough in spring might as well give it a try.