What foods can relieve cough and expel phlegm?
Disease description:
I've had severe coughing and a sore throat these past two days, with a feeling of phlegm in my throat. What foods can help relieve cough and expel phlegm?
Doctor's answer (1)
Dr. Guo Xiheng
Consuming foods such as boiled pomelo peel, rock sugar-steamed pears, and loquat can help relieve cough and expel phlegm. Drinking water boiled with pomelo peel is commonly used to alleviate cough, remove phlegm, and aid digestion. Loquat syrup made from loquat, honey, and rock sugar not only helps relieve cough and clear phlegm but also moistens the lungs. Rock sugar-steamed pear has effects of clearing heat, relieving cough, nourishing yin, moistening the lungs, eliminating phlegm, and reducing internal heat, making it suitable for patients with colds, chronic pharyngitis, coughing, and asthma.
