🌿 Dietary Guidelines for Three Types of Cough
1. Exogenous Wind-Cold Type Cough
Symptoms: Initial cough with thin or white sticky phlegm, accompanied by nasal congestion, runny nose, headache, and thin white tongue coating.
Avoid raw, cold, sticky, glutinous, and greasy foods such as bananas, persimmons, clams, and crabs.
2. Wind-Heat Type Cough
Symptoms: Yellow, thick phlegm, difficult to expel, possibly accompanied by thirst, sore throat, hoarseness, fever, and yellow tongue coating.
Foods recommended: pears, figs, mint, hoelen, watermelon, duck eggs, honeysuckle. Avoid spicy, hot, sticky, nourishing, and tonifying foods such as longan, dog meat, and pepper.
3. Lung Dryness Type Cough
Symptoms: Dry cough without phlegm or minimal phlegm that is hard to expel, dry nose and throat, thin tongue coating with little moisture.
Recommended foods: honey, sugarcane, olives, duck meat, white fungus. Avoid spicy, dry, fried, warming, and pungent foods such as popcorn, roasted peanuts, chili peppers, and avoid tobacco and alcohol.