Food for improving pharyngitis: 1. momordica grosvenori
The fruits and leaves of Siraitia grosvenorii contain triterpenoid saponins, as well as a lot of fructose, more than ten kinds of essential amino acids, fatty acids, flavonoids, vitamin C and trace elements. Momordica grosvenori saponin, as the main component of Momordica grosvenori sweetener, is a sweet triterpenoid glycoside, and its aglycone is triterpenoid alcohol.
Siraitia grosvenorii is a sour fruit, but soaking in water is very effective for treating pharyngitis. Siraitia grosvenorii is sweet and cool, which can clear lung, eliminate phlegm, quench thirst and moisten throat. Moreover, modern medical research has confirmed that Siraitia grosvenorii contains a sweetener 300 times sweeter than sucrose, but it does not produce calories, so it is an ideal substitute for people who are not suitable for eating sugar, such as diabetes and obesity. Rich in vitamin C, it has the functions of anti-aging, anti-cancer and skin care.
Second, boat-fruited Sterculia
The first thing that many people think of is boat-fruited Sterculia, which tastes sweet and cool, enters the lungs and intestines, and has the effects of clearing away lung heat, relieving sore throat and detoxifying, moistening the intestines and relaxing bowels. It has the effects of clearing away heat and moistening lung, relieving sore throat and detoxicating, moistening intestine and relaxing bowels, and can relieve symptoms such as sore throat, itchy throat and hoarseness caused by excessive lung and stomach heat, with obvious effect.
In traditional Chinese medicine, throat vocalization is mainly regulated by the lungs. If lung qi is sufficient, lung yin is moist, lung function is normal, voice is loud, sound quality is crisp and moist, and pronunciation is lasting; On the contrary, whether exogenous pathogens invade the lungs, lung qi is unclear, lung qi deficiency or lung yin deficiency, and malnutrition in the throat will lead to dysphonia in the throat, ranging from hoarseness to aphonia. Boat-fruited Sterculia is sweet and cold, which can moisten the lungs and relieve sore throat. No matter what causes hoarseness and aphonia, other drugs can be used to treat them. For example, licorice cures sore throat, cicada cures aphonia due to lung qi deficiency, astragalus and codonopsis treat hoarseness due to lung qi deficiency, and Ophiopogon japonicus and Scrophularia treat hoarseness due to lung yin deficiency.
Third, pears
Pear is rich in sugar, protein, fat, carbohydrates and vitamins, which plays an important role in human health. Pear has the function of clearing away lung heat and nourishing lung. People who eat more pears are much less likely to catch a cold than those who don't eat or eat less pears, so some scientists and doctors call pears "all-round healthy fruits" or "general practitioners".
Pear tastes sweet, slightly sour, cool, and enters the lungs and stomach; Has the effects of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, and relieving alcoholism; It can be used for dry cough, thirst and constipation caused by fever and yin deficiency, and also for polydipsia, cough and asthma, yellow phlegm and other symptoms caused by internal heat. Patients with pharyngitis should eat more pears, because pears are rich in water. It can not only replenish water, but also moisten the throat and lungs. Pears are the best food for all throats.
Li Shizhen once said, don't talk about pears, just talk about their harm, not their benefits. The ancients said that most diseases are related to wind-cold, and the medicine is cinnamon and aconite, but they didn't know that pears have the functions of controlling wind and heat, moistening lung and cooling heart, eliminating phlegm and removing fire, and detoxifying. Today, 67 of human diseases are phlegm disease and fire disease. Pears have many benefits, but don't eat too much. Unfortunately, only milk pears and goose pears can be eaten and cured, and all other pears can be eaten but not cured.
Fourth, loquat
Loquat is rich in nutrition, containing a variety of fructose, glucose, potassium, phosphorus, iron, calcium and vitamins A, B and C, among which carotene ranks third among all fruits. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loquat fruit has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough and quenching thirst. Peel loquat when you eat it. Loquat meat is not only eaten fresh, but also canned in sugar water, or used to make wine. The leaves, fruits and kernels of loquat contain amygdalin.
Loquat can be used as medicine all over the body, and the fruit can moisten the lungs and diuresis, clear away heat and strengthen the spleen, which has a good effect on maintaining the liver. Rich in vitamin C, it can resist bad blood factors. Loquat can relieve cough and moisten lung, promote diuresis and strengthen stomach, clear away heat and moisten patients with chronic pharyngitis. It is an important nutritional fruit and health fruit in early summer. But vitiligo patients should not eat it, because vitamin C can prevent the deposition of melanin.
Five, cherry
Cherry has a high iron content, ranking first among fruits. The content of vitamin A is 4-5 times that of grapes, apples and oranges. The carotene content is 4 ~ 5 times higher than that of grapes, apples and oranges.
Cherry is sweet and sour, warm in nature, and has the effects of nourishing blood, caring skin, warming spleen and stomach. Cherry is mainly used for spleen and stomach weakness, eating less and diarrhea, or spleen and stomach yin injury and dry tongue. Deficiency of liver and kidney, weakness of waist and knees, weakness of limbs, or nocturnal emission; Refractory spots such as blood deficiency, dizziness, palpitation, dull complexion and facial freckles can play a role in desalination. Modern research shows that cherry is rich in iron, citric acid and vitamin C, and it is a good fruit for enriching blood. The hundredth fruit is ripe and has the reputation of "the first spring fruit". It can enhance the spleen and stomach function and improve the immune system function of patients with pharyngitis.
In addition, although cherries are good, be careful not to eat too much. Because it contains not only iron, but also a certain amount of cyanoside, if eaten too much, it will cause iron poisoning or cyanide poisoning.
Pharyngolaryngitis symptoms: 1, throat discomfort.
Including foreign body sensation, burning sensation, dryness, and some dull pain. The above discomfort is especially obvious after talking and singing more, and the symptoms can be alleviated or disappeared after rest.
2. Voice changes
It can range from hoarseness, "roughness" and hoarseness to complete loss of voice. The patient's conscious speech is getting lighter and weaker, and the tone becomes lower, which is dull and laborious. These symptoms were relieved or disappeared after the sound was stopped, but reappeared after the sound was restored, and the time difference was good and the course of the disease was long, which made the patients feel distressed by the sound. Hoarseness is the most important symptom. The voice became deep and rough, and the symptoms were serious in the morning. Later, with the increase of activities, throat secretions coughed up and gradually improved, and the hoarseness increased the next morning. After the silence stopped, the hoarseness was reduced, and the symptoms of talking more were aggravated, which was intermittent and evolved into persistence over time.
Step 3 cough and clear your throat
Before speaking or singing, there is often a voice that clears your throat, that is, you want to cough up the endocrine in your throat, and the secretion in your throat increases. You often feel phlegm adhesion. Whenever you speak, you must cough to get rid of phlegm. This situation is often caused by the patient's excessive shouting. There are not many secretions in the upper cough, but this dry cough has become a habit of long-term nasal congestion, runny nose and breathing with the mouth open. Inflammatory secretions stimulate the laryngeal mucosa and easily make the vocal cords edema and congestion. After a long time, it will cause vocal cord hypertrophy or vocal nodules, and even develop into polyps, leading to hoarseness.