Cough is a common symptom of physical discomfort, which may occur all year round. Old people often cough because their lungs are aging and their immunity is dec
Cough is a common symptom of physical discomfort, which may occur all year round. Old people often cough because their lungs are aging and their immunity is declining. Especially when the temperature changes greatly, the problem is more serious. Cough in the elderly indicates that there is some kind of disease in the body, which must not be ignored. Today, I will talk to you about the treatment of cough.
Treatment of cough in the elderly
1 and * * * methods
1, chest
Press Tiantu, Zhongshan, beside breast and breast root 50~ 100 times each.
2. Lower limbs
Dianfenglong, Taichong, Zusanli and Sanyinjiao each 50~ 100 times.
3. Upper limbs
The blue river is 300 times. Purging heart meridian, liver meridian, lung meridian, spleen meridian and kidney meridian were 65438 000 ~ 200 times each.
4. Head, face and neck
Open heaven, divided into yin and yang 100~200 times. Press Fengchi, Fengfu and Baihui 30~50 times each. Massage the eyebrows from brow to temple for 5~ 10 times.
5. Back
Rub back, open bladder meridian, and press Dazhui, Shu Fei, Pishu, Ganshu, Xinshu and Asthma points. Knead the spine from top to bottom. Push down the Tianzhu bone until the panel is reddish and hot.
2. Steam inhalation method
Half a cup of boiling water, the patient put his mouth on the mouth of the cup and sucked steam 15~20 minutes.
3. Throat moistening method
Drink a few mouthfuls of warm water before expectoration, or rinse your mouth with warm water for a while to moisten your throat.
4. Beating method
Tapping the back can make the sputum stuck in the trachea, bronchus or lungs shake and shift, which is helpful to expel phlegm.
5, * * expectoration method
If the lesion is in the lower lobe of the lung, you can take a lying position with your head down and your feet up. If the lesion is in the upper lobe of the lung, you can take a sitting position. The patient breathes more than a few times, and then coughs, which is beneficial to the discharge of sputum.
6, often eat antitussive food.
1, wax gourd
Cool nature, can resolve phlegm and clear heat. Anyone who coughs due to wind-heat or lung-heat should choose winter melon stew.
2. Siraitia grosvenorii
Clearing lung and relieving cough, lung heat cough and wind heat cough should be taken. 1 Siraitia grosvenorii and 15g persimmon can be decocted.
3. Chrysanthemum morifolium
It has the functions of moistening lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. I often feel lung heat and phlegm. Drinking Artemisia selengensis decoction can not only eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, but also clear away heat and relieve annoyance.
4. Loquat
Cool and sweet, it can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. "southern Yunnan materia medica" says "loquat cures cough and vomiting." It is suitable for people who cough with yellow pus and phlegm due to heat.
5.persimmons
Cold properties clear away heat, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, and those with hot cough should eat it. Modern pharmacological experiments show that persimmon does have expectorant and antitussive effects, and the expectorant effect is stronger than antitussive effect.
Step 6 water chestnut
Can eliminate phlegm and clear heat, and is especially suitable for patients with heat cough and expectoration. 250g of fresh water chestnut can be used each time, washed and peeled, scalded with boiling water, eaten raw, morning and evening 1 time, for 3~5 days.
7.figs
It can clear away heat, eliminate phlegm and regulate qi, and is suitable for people with wind-heat cough and excessive phlegm and chest tightness. There are ancient records of local folk methods for treating hoarseness caused by cough due to lung heat.15g of fig is decocted with water to adjust rock sugar.
A prescription for treating cough
First: white radish and honey to cure cold and cough.
Ingredients: white radish, honey, ephedra and white pepper.
Practice: Wash and slice the radish, and then put it in a clean bowl. Then add honey, white pepper and ephedra, put them in a pot and cook for half an hour before taking them. Sweat in bed after taking it.
Efficacy: This prescription has the functions of relieving cough, resolving phlegm, sweating and dispelling cold, and is especially suitable for treating wind-cold cough.
Second: radish and onion cure colds and coughs.
Ingredients: radish, onion, ginger, water.
Practice: Slice the white radish, put it in a pot, add water and cook it, add ginger and onion and cook it. When taking it, you should not only drink the liquid medicine, but also take the residue together.
Efficacy: This folk prescription can treat cough caused by wind-cold, and also has a good therapeutic effect on excessive phlegm, fear of cold, physical weakness and so on.
Third: Baked oranges.
Material: orange
Practice: Wash the orange and bake it with low fire, and stop when the orange peel turns black. Then take it while it is hot, and it has a good cough relieving effect.
Efficacy: Oranges are warm, have expectorant and antitussive effects, and are especially suitable for patients with wind and cold.
Fourth: coriander soup calms colds and coughs.
Ingredients: coriander, caramel and rice.
Practice: clean the coriander, then put the rice into the pot to boil the soup, and finally take out the rice soup. Stir and cook rice soup with coriander and maltose, and take it ten minutes later.
Efficacy: Pay attention to avoid catching a cold after taking it. The body will recover quickly after sweating, especially for treating cough caused by cold.
Fifth: scrambled eggs with sesame oil in Jiang Mo
Ingredients: sesame oil, Jiang Mo and eggs.
Practice: put sesame oil in the pot, add Jiang Mo after the oil is hot, and finally add an egg, stir fry, and take it before going to bed at night.
Efficacy: Treat cough caused by various reasons.
Sixth: scallion
Practice: You can wash the scallion and put it into the pot to take medicine water. You can also cook porridge with scallion and rice and then take it. The effect of relieving cough is also very good.
Efficacy: the scallion is warm, which can regulate the body temperature well and promote perspiration after taking it. In addition to treating colds and coughs, it also has the effect of preventing and treating colds and colds.
Seventh place: Chen
Ingredients: licorice, dried tangerine peel, hawthorn and honey.
Practice: Put the prepared three materials into the pot together, add water to boil and take them out for later use. Cooling, adding honey, and stirring to take.
Efficacy: No matter what causes the body cough, taking this method can have a good effect. If children under one year old take this old skin water, it is recommended to use white sugar instead of honey, which is better for their health.
Eighth: coriander and soybean soup
Ingredients: coriander, soybean and salt.
Practice: wash coriander and soak soybeans in water in advance. Put the soybeans in a pot and add water to boil for15min, then add the coriander and continue to boil for15min. Add a small amount of salt before taking out the pot, and remove the residue at the same time, and you can take it directly.
Ninth: yam porridge
Ingredients: yam, sugar
Practice: smash the yam. And screening, then adding water into the pot, stirring while cooking, cooking for three times, adding a small amount of sugar to taste, and then taking.
Efficacy: This prescription can not only treat cough caused by physical injury or overwork, but also has the functions of tonifying kidney, strengthening spleen and being grateful, and is suitable for some patients with weak body.
Tenth: fig crystal sugar water
Ingredients: fig, rock sugar
Practice: Wash the figs, then add water and rock sugar and put them in a pot to boil. It is recommended to take it once a day for about three to five days.
Efficacy: This folk prescription can effectively treat some cough caused by lung heat, and also has the function of resolving phlegm and regulating qi, and has a good therapeutic effect on some dry throat, constipation and hoarseness.
Eleventh: pork almond soup
Ingredients: pork, almond, glehnia littoralis, salt.
Practice: After cleaning the materials, put them into a pot for decoction, and then remove the residue to get the liquid medicine.
Efficacy: It has a good effect of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and can also treat throat diseases.