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After a cold in summer, coughing up phlegm at night and making it difficult to sleep, how to relieve it?
Summer is the season of high incidence of colds, especially in the hot and humid climate, people are susceptible to infection with viruses and cold symptoms, among which coughing up phlegm at night and making it difficult to fall asleep is a problem that makes many people distressed. As an experienced veteran Chinese medicine practitioner, I will introduce you to some ways to relieve cough and phlegm at night based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine and ancient and modern famous prescriptions.
First of all, according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the difficulty of falling asleep with cough and phlegm at night is mostly related to phlegm dampness. Phlegm dampness is a pathological state in TCM pathology, which is manifested as excessive dampness in the body, which blocks the normal operation of the qi machine, resulting in symptoms such as cough and excessive phlegm. Therefore, in many ways of relieving nocturnal cough phlegm, it is first necessary to clear the phlegm and dampness from the body.
One feasible way to do this is through the homology of medicine and food. It is recommended to use the ancient famous prescription "Yuping Feng San", which is composed of Coptis chinensis, skullcap, ephedra, almond and other medicines, which can clear away heat and detoxify, dispel dampness and dissolve phlegm. The specific usage is to grind the above drugs into fine powder, and take an appropriate amount of soaked water every night. In addition, you can also eat more foods that can clear away heat and dampness, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, such as coix seeds, mulberry white bark, Sydney pear, etc. Coix seed has the effect of dehumidifying, can be boiled porridge or boiled water for drinking;Mulberry white bark has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, and can be decocted in water or made into syrupSydney pears have the effect of moistening the lungs, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, and can be eaten fresh or boiled to drink.
In addition, TCM emphasizes the importance of health preservation. After catching a cold in summer, you should pay attention to health care and strengthen your physical fitness to improve immunity. When you have a lot of cough and phlegm at night and it is difficult to fall asleep, you can try to massage the "Pampong Acupoint", which is located in the depression between the two bones on the back of the hand, and press the acupoint with your thumb for 10-15 minutes each time to relieve cough and promote deep sleep. In addition, you can also enhance your physical fitness through dietary conditioning and eat more foods rich in vitamin C, such as lemons, oranges, apples, etc. Vitamin C has a certain effect on improving immunity and enhancing viral resistance.
To sum up, it is a common problem to cough up phlegm at night and have difficulty falling asleep after a cold in summer. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that most of these symptoms are related to phlegm and dampness, so clearing away heat and dampness and dissolving phlegm is the focus of relieving symptoms. It can be conditioned by taking the traditional Chinese medicine "Yuping Feng San" or eating some foods that have the effect of clearing heat and dampness, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. In addition, massaging the "Pampong Acupoint" and strengthening the body can also help relieve the problem of coughing and phlegm at night. I hope the above introduction will be helpful to the majority of readers.
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References: 1"Chinese Medicine" textbook compilation team. Traditional Chinese Medicine[M].Beijing: Health Press, 2007