Lungs, the main qi, are responsible for respiration.

In summer, in addition to avoiding the summer heat, but also to take care of the lungs. Because summer air conditioning, drink cold drinks, damp and cold easily invade the lungs.

Lungs, the most afraid of cold, and afraid of heat, once the cold and dampness of the evil, stay in the lungs, will induce lung disease. However, summer, is also the heaviest season of yang energy between heaven and earth, is the best time to remove cold and dampness in the body.

4 abnormalities in the body when the lungs are not good

Abnormality 1: Waking up naturally at 3-5am

Between three and five in the morning, the lung meridian is in command, at this time, the human body will enter a state of deep sleep. If, you often wake up at this moment, it means that your lungs are not enough, or your qi and blood are weak. If, you often wake up at this time, you must pay attention to protect the health of the lungs.

Anomaly 2:

Frequent coughing, chest tightness.

Coughing, is an important way to keep your throat and airways clean. Occasional coughing, mostly normal, often coughing, need to be alert to the lungs accumulate poison more than. If, at night, cough aggravation, accompanied by chest tightness, and even be suffocated to wake up, be alert to the cardiopulmonary function is seriously impaired.

Abnormality 3: Sweating at the tip of the nose and redness of the nose

If there is often a lot of sweating at the tip of the nose, or if the nose is red and accompanied by breathlessness, runny nose and nasal congestion. At this point, you need to be careful of problems with lung health, resulting in a lack of lung energy that extends to the nose.

Abnormality 4: Darkening of the face

Lungs, the main body of the skin, whether the skin is moisturized and fair, are dependent on the lungs functioning well. When the lungs are diseased, it will affect the exchange of qi and blood, and cannot nourish the skin, which in turn leads to a dull complexion. Clinically, most of the lung cancer patients will have dark and lusterless face, which should not be ignored.

What foods should I eat more of to nourish and protect my lungs?

Chinese medicine says that white foods nourish the lungs, and eating more white foods can nourish lung health.

1. White radish, with a slightly pungent flavor, can clear heat and resolve phlegm, lower the qi and broaden the middle, and relieve cough.
   
2. Lily, which moistens the lungs and relieves cough and strengthens the body's immune system.
   
3. Snow pear, juicy and sweet, can moisturize the lungs and promote the production of fluids, relieve cough and resolve phlegm.
   
4. Lotus root, clearing heat and removing fire, moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough, can be very good to improve lung heat.
   
5. Water chestnut, which clears the lungs and resolves phlegm, helps detoxify the lungs and benefits lung health.
   
6. Silver Fungus, can nourish the lungs and stomach, replenish qi and blood, nourish yin to replenish qi, and support the body.
   
   
   

In addition, to support your lungs during the summer, do the following.

1, less cigarettes

Smoking, is the most lung-damaging behavior. The burning of cigarettes releases more than a hundred harmful substances. And, these substances will also carry a certain amount of dust, be inhaled into the lungs, by the alveoli and mucous membrane adsorption. Over time, carbon residue and dust, accumulated in the lungs, resulting in "black lung", greatly increasing the chance of cancer. Therefore, to maintain good lungs, we must stay away from cigarettes.

2, Breathe hard

To qi nourish the lungs, breathe more fresh air, can exhale the old and promote the lungs to discharge turbidity. You can often go to the grass and trees, fresh air, do deep breathing, do chest expansion exercise.

Every evening or early in the morning, go outside to a fresh place to do deep breathing, abdominal breathing, for the best choice. Abdominal breathing, when inhaling, the abdomen slightly outwardly open, when exhaling, the abdomen inwardly closed.

In addition, you can also cooperate with the chest expansion exercise, which can dredge the lung meridians, relax muscle tissue, promote blood circulation in the lungs, which is conducive to the alveolar impurities out of the lungs.

3. Laugh hard

Laughter, for the lungs, is the best 'exercise'. Laughing expands the lungs, and a person also unconsciously takes deep breaths while laughing, clearing the airways and making breathing easier.

In addition, laughing can also expand the thorax, increase lung capacity, and stretch the chest muscles, which helps to promote lung qi, and is conducive to the lifting and lowering of the human body's qi. Daily smile, can eliminate fatigue, lifting depression, broadening the chest, restoring physical strength, improve appetite.

　　Lung is the body's respiratory organs, but also an important organ of the body's blood, and the lungs are clear and delicate, such as the six evils, often easy to offend the lungs and for the disease. Therefore, usually focus on the lungs is particularly important. So, what is good for the lungs to eat? The following is a brief introduction for reference.

　　1, Lotus root. Lotus root enters the lung, heart, spleen meridian. Cooked lotus root is sweet, warm and non-toxic in nature, consuming cooked lotus root can nourish the heart and blood, strengthen the stomach and spleen, nourish and strengthen the heart, lotus root soup is good for urination, clearing heat and moistening the lungs.

　　2, yam. Containing a large amount of starch and protein, as well as vitamins, fat, choline and other components, as well as iodine, calcium, iron, phosphorus and other inorganic salts and trace elements indispensable to the human body. It has special health effects on the human body, and has the effect of nourishing the spleen and stomach, tonifying the lungs and benefiting the kidneys.

　　3, Lily. Containing starch, protein, fat and calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1.B2.C and other nutrients, but also contains some special nutrients, such as colchicine and a variety of alkaloids, these alkaloidal components have a good nutritional tonic effect, the lily also has a nourishing heart and tranquillize the mind, moistening the lungs to stop coughing, replenish the efficacy of the qi, on the sick and weak is very beneficial to the people, very suitable for consumption in the dry winter.

　　4, Pear. Pear water can be used to clear the lungs, moisturize the lungs. The best way to eat is to make pear soup, or pear water, add rock sugar, eat pear meat and drink soup.

　　5, white radish. Clear the lungs and moisten the throat, is often used in traditional Chinese medicine dietary therapy, eaten raw effect, juice effect is better. And it contains spicy ingredients can inhibit the abnormal division of cells, thus preventing cancer attacks, radish and sterilization, appetite and inhibit the role of platelet aggregation. Radish contains a lot of dietary fiber and rich in amylase and other digestive enzymes, can effectively promote the digestion and absorption of food.

　　6. Olive. There are clear lungs, throat, the production of fluids, detoxification effect. Sore throat with some green olives, can make the throat refreshing, such as with fresh radish decoction better. Olives after distillation of the liquid called olive dew, can be used to assist in the treatment of sore throat, cough, irritability and so on.

　　7, loquat. There are moisturizing the lung, thirst, down the function of gas, can assist in the treatment of lung wither cough, vomiting blood, thirst and other diseases. Loquat leaves are commonly used Chinese herbs, honey-roasted after the lung and stomach, lowering the role of gas down, often made of loquat paste, loquat dew, loquat punch, etc., to assist in the treatment of lung heat and cough.

　　8, Ginkgo. Fungus fungus ginkgo biloba, ginkgo biloba plants, "the crown of the fungus" is known. Sex flat, taste sweet, light, non-toxic. Both are valuable nutritional tonic, but also to support the strong tonic. Lung principle: the same white food, fungus sex more warm, more suitable for people with cold body or stomach than Sydney, and at the same time have the role of beneficial gas intestinal cleansing.

　　9. Lung moisturizing soybean milk porridge:

　　Ingredients: 1000 grams of soybean milk, 100 grams of glutinous rice, sugar.

　　Practice: Wash the glutinous rice into the pot, add the right amount of water, martial arts fire boiled and then switch to the fire slowly simmering, cook until the rice grains blossomed when poured into the soybean milk, continue to simmer for 10 minutes, add the right amount of sugar can be.

　　10: Ham and winter melon soup:

　　Ingredients: sliced ham, sliced winter melon, shredded green onion, shredded ginger, shrimp, salt, sugar, sesame oil.

　　Directions: Boil water in a pot, add sliced winter melon and ingredients into the pot and cook for 10 minutes, then add sliced ham and cook for 2 minutes; add chopped green onion, sesame oil, salt and sugar before serving.

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Lung health is not simply rely on what to eat to maintain, maintenance of the lungs is a comprehensive project, not only need to pay attention to diet, usually every aspect of life need to be done in the direction of favoring the lungs. Lungs is the whole body in addition to the intestinal tract and the outside world with the important viscera, very susceptible to the influence of the external environment and sick, not too dry, not too humid, not too cold, not too high temperatures, not too dusty environment, not the environment has a bad smell is not good, it is best to have been inhaling clean and suitable air, not only will not hurt the lungs, and even play a role in repairing the lungs, a lot of respiratory diseases. Many respiratory diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma, change to a city without environmental pollution and the temperature is suitable for the city without medication can be good, recently there is a Xinjiang Uyghur granny in Xinjiang has been inseparable from the respirator, barely to Guangxi and came a long way to Shanghai to find me to see a doctor, but also to be able to walk on their own, her grandson is just joining the work of urology doctors, has always been concerned about me in the headlines.

If you have to eat above to say a sub ugly c and d, that from the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, eat raw pears, fungus, bird's nest and cordyceps is beneficial to the lungs, recently a patient of mine, is a patient with interstitial lung disease, with Western medicine has been to eat some of the local Chinese medicine, lung maintenance is good, the composition of traditional Chinese medicine mainly mealybugs, ginseng and gold orchids powdered water to drink, it is said to have to enhance immunity effects. From the point of view of Western medicine, it is believed that in fact, balanced nutrition, no spicy and other stimulation, will not lead to allergies as appropriate, if you eat the obvious discomfort is best not to eat again.

Lungs are connected to the outside world, especially susceptible to bacterial infection, and bacteria and other pathogens often leave some sequelae on the lungs after infection, these sequelae will in turn aggravate the lung infection, and ultimately the formation of a vicious circle, so the prevention of infection is very important for the maintenance of the lungs, and the prevention of infection is an important measure to improve the immunity, and try to avoid cold and flu, as well as fatigue and stay up all night, especially rain and other situations, and the prevention of infection is very important. There is a disease called lung abscess in textbooks, often occurring in middle-aged and young people, an important trigger is the rain and cold, so the maintenance of the lungs can not only start from the perspective of the lungs, should be from the perspective of the whole body to the overall maintenance.

Lungs, a very important organ in the body, known as "the umbrella of the five viscera"; scientific lungs, reliable lungs, is one of the things that we must do in life; how should the diet regulate? What foods are preferred? In addition, the lungs are more afraid of what habits, for these things, and you to talk about "lungs" of "practical life content".

What should I eat more of to nourish my lungs?

in the first placeScientific lungs, we must "drink more water"; timely hydration, this can be more reliable to play a "moisturizing" role; nothing more than a drink of water, small mouth drinking water, the nasopharyngeal mucosa, tracheal mucosa to play a rehydration and moisturizing effect.

Drinking water, please note, to drink warm water, close to the body temperature of the water, generally recommended not to exceed 40 degrees Celsius; especially cold fall and winter, do not recommend that you drink iced cold drinks, to avoid damage to the lungs health; often drink warm boiled water, can be very good for the lungs to play the role of moisturizing dryness, to prevent coughs and other problems occurring.

secondlyPlease consume as many fresh vegetables and fruits as possible to replenish water, moisten dryness and promote metabolism; especially seasonal fruits and vegetables, quality and quantity of intake, to protect your lung health.

Beyond that, what should you do to protect your lung health?

Early to bed and early to rise:

The best time to nourish your lungs is from 7am to 9am; going to bed early and waking up early will allow your lungs to function better; after waking up early, you can properly go outdoors for more fresh air to promote lung metabolism.

Exercise properly, not too strenuously:

Exercise scientifically, not too strenuously, to give your lungs a proper "workout" and increase lung capacity, choose jogging, brisk walking, cycling and other sports to improve lung function.

Do more of what you love and stay in a good mood:

Whether it's sports or hobbies, please do more of what you like to do in your life; a happy mood can make your lungs feel smoother; self-adjustment and a relaxed mind are especially important for lung health.

Also, stay away from these for bad lungs:

Stay away from "tobacco breath":

Smoking is a very bad thing for your lungs, whether it's first-hand or second-hand; to protect your lungs, if you smoke, please quit; if your family smokes, please stay out of the smoke.

Stay away from "kitchen fumes":

During cooking, avoid using high-temperature cooking methods such as frying, stir-frying and grilling to reduce the production of soot substances and avoid damage to the lungs.

Lungs, an important "part" of the body; scientific diet, reasonable exercise, reject bad habits; may your lungs become healthier and healthier.

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The lungs are the body's respiratory organs and an important blood-forming organ. The lungs govern respiration, and air enters the body through the respiration of the lungs, supplying the needed oxygen.

To have a healthy lungs, usually eat more white food and some rich in vitamins, fiber, moisten the lungs, nourish the lungs food such as: celery, spinach, pumpkin, cabbage, carrots, carrots, yams, kelp, fungus, fungus, lily of the valley, lotus seed, lotus root, barley, sugarcane, Sydney, apples, grapes, loquat, soymilk, honey and so on.

Warm Tip:

In order for us to have a healthy lungs, we should eat regularly, quit smoking and limit alcohol; avoid excessive fatigue and less strenuous exercise; go to bed early and get up early; don't spit on the floor, and often disinfect our supplies; and do proper physical exercise.

As the saying goes, "when the lungs are injured, all kinds of diseases start". How should we protect our lungs and what is good for them?

I. Fruits

Pei Pa Koa: Pei Pa Koa is sweet and sour in flavor, cool in nature, with the effect of generating fluids and quenching thirst, clearing the lungs and relieving coughs, and harmonizing the stomach and lowering rebelliousness. It has a therapeutic effect on cough.

Persimmon: Persimmon is sweet and astringent in flavor, cold in nature, and has the effect of clearing heat and moistening the lungs and quenching thirst.

Sugarcane: Sugarcane is sweet and cold in nature, it has the effect of clearing heat, generating fluids, lowering gas and moistening dryness. Chronic bronchitis, lung dryness and cough have therapeutic effects.

Tangerine: Tangerine is sweet and sour in flavor and warm in nature. It has expectorant, anti-inflammatory, antihypertensive and lipid-lowering effects. Orange peel has therapeutic effect on chronic bronchitis, lung heat and phlegm, acute laryngitis.

Cantaloupe: Cantaloupe is sweet in flavor and cold in nature, with the effect of clearing lung heat, relieving cough and benefiting qi.

Lemon: Lemon is sour and sweet, flat, with phlegm and cough, promote the spleen, clearing heat, sterilization, appetizer and phlegm effect. For the treatment of laryngitis has therapeutic effects.

Apricot: apricot taste sweet and sour, slightly warm nature, have quenched thirst, produce fluids, clearing heat to remove the effect of poison. There is a therapeutic effect on cough.

Pear: Pear taste sweet and slightly acidic, cool nature, has the role of the production of fluids and moistening dryness, clearing away heat and phlegm. Mute voice, cough, tuberculosis, whooping cough has therapeutic effects.

II. Vegetables

White radish: radish is sweet and pungent, cool in nature, with the effect of promoting qi and stagnation, relaxing the chest and diaphragm, strengthening the stomach and eliminating food, relieving cough and phlegm, removing dryness and generating fluids, detoxifying and dispersing silt, and quenching thirst with diuretics.

Cabbage: Cabbage is sweet and cold in nature, it has the effect of clearing heat and removing vexation, nourishing the stomach and generating fluids, facilitating gastrointestinal flow and detoxifying the body, and it also prevents colds and feverish coughs.

Loofah: loofah is sweet and flat, has the effect of removing heat from the intestines, removing wind and phlegm, cooling the blood and detoxification, killing insects, through the meridians, blood circulation. Pediatric whooping cough has therapeutic effects.

Lily: Lily taste sweet and flat, with moistening the lungs to stop coughing, clear the heart and tranquilize the mind, clear heat and cool the blood, the effect of beauty and skin care. There is a therapeutic effect on dry cough.

Silver Fungus: Silver Fungus is sweet and flat, has the effect of nourishing yin and clearing heat, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, nourishing the stomach and generating fluids, benefiting the qi and blood, tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the heart, strengthening the brain and lifting the spirit, and relieving fatigue.

Yam: Yam is sweet and flat, with the spleen and lungs, solid kidney and essence of the ears and eyes, help the five organs, strong bones and bones, prolonging the life of the efficacy. Tuberculosis, lung disease fever and cough have therapeutic effect.

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It's the dry and cold fall and winter season, the weather is getting cooler every day, many people will feel uncomfortable nose, throat discomfort, dry cough, then eat something can be good for the lungs?

The first thing you should definitely do to relieve your lungs is to drink plenty of water and stay hydrated. When you drink water, you can also make small drinks that will taste better than just drinking water and can be kinder to your lungs.

For example, we most commonly used, ice sugar snow pear, own snow pear boil, put a little rock sugar. Snow pear can clear the heart and lungs, can be used to boil water after the pear meat together are eaten.

If you want to put a few more ingredients, you can add some lilies to make lily and pear soup. Lily is rich in vitamins, and there are many beneficial components of the body, Chinese medicine believes that lily can nourish the heart and moisten the lungs, and pear together, the effect is even better.

Another one that can be good for your lungs is white radish. My son loved drinking white radish water when he was growing up, and over time I liked to follow suit. White radish is not as sweet as pear, but it has a fresh radish flavor, which can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, and it is easier for children to accept. Of course, adults can also follow the drink.

And last but not least, don't smoke! Don't smoke! Don't smoke! Try to minimize second-hand smoke as well!

According to Chinese medicine, "the lung is a delicate organ", "warm evils are received upwards and first offend the lungs", and "the lungs are Hua Gai", which means that the lungs are very susceptible to external harmful substances, and the lungs are infringed on After the attack, in addition to triggering respiratory diseases, may also cause colds. And the lungs are the umbrella of the five viscera and six bowels, when external stimuli into the body, the first attack is the lungs!

Chinese medicine has always emphasized that medicine and food have the same origin, and food therapy is a very important part of protecting the lungs. What foods can nourish the lungs?

1. Sydney

Common fruit, containing malic acid, citric acid, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, carotene and other trace elements. Sydney can produce fluid and润肺It can clear away heat and resolve phlegm. Excessive sweating and thirst when eating pears can cool and remove dryness, eating pears after drinking will feel the sweet taste of pears, can relieve alcohol.

In addition.Pear skin is also a very high medicinal value of Chinese medicine, can clear the heart and moisten the lungs, reduce fire and promote the production of fluids。

Serving method:① the pear skin washed and chopped, plus rock sugar stewed water to take can cure cough, do pickles can also put some pear skin, can make pickles more delicious. ② pear internal hollow, put Sichuan shellfish and rock sugar, put in the pot for steaming or boiled, after cooling can put a little honey. ③ Snow pear internal hollow, cut into pieces, put the lily together to cook, cooked, add rock sugar melting can be taken.

2. Ginkgo

Silver fungus is known as the "poor man's bird's nest", not only the nutrients are very rich, and cheaper, can clear the lungs and moisturize the lungs. In the fall and winter seasons, the cold air into the lungs, will cause the lung gas diffusion is more difficult, resulting in respiratory diseases, in addition, when the weather is relatively dry, the lung heat will lead to coughing, pneumonia and other symptoms. At this time, the use of silver fungus to clean and moisturize the lungs is no better.

Edible Methods: ① will be washed pear out of the internal core, and then cut into small pieces, add fungus, lily and rock sugar, put into the steamer in the steamer for 1 hour, eat pears and drink soup can be, this method of consumption has the role of cough phlegm, suitable for patients with a dry cough. ② water to add lotus seeds after the fire 10 minutes, dates and fungus together into the pot, cook 5 minutes over high heat, and then turn to a small fire to cook for 1 hour, and finally add rock sugar, rock sugar can be taken after melting. (3) pumpkin skin to remove the inner flesh, cut into small pieces, fungus hair good clean, rice first into the pot to cook, cooked, put the fungus and pumpkin and cook until the pumpkin boiled soft take out after eating.

3. Yam

Yam belongs to the potato food, which is very rich in dietary fiber and carbohydrates, a variety of vitamins, including carotene, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium and other minerals. Yam has the effect of generating fluids and benefiting the lungs, and long-term consumption can be used for lung deficiency and coughing, deficiency cough and irritable thirst.

Edible Methods：①将山药去皮，放在锅上蒸熟，然后将玫瑰花瓣捣碎，将山药和玫瑰花瓣混合后，加入适当的炼乳后食用；②猪肺洗净、切块，山药洗净并用冷水浸泡15分钟，红枣洗净、生姜切片，加水炖，约炖1个半小时，加盐即可食用。 ③ red dates washed, soaked for 30 minutes; yam washed, peeled, cut into pieces; millet amorphous, together into the pot, for cooking and stewing for 30 minutes can be.

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Lung is a particularly delicate airways, hot, cold. It is winter, easy to catch a cold, over time, resulting in upper respiratory tract infections, usually pay attention to keep warm, strengthen physical exercise, increase immunity. Diet, eat less mutton, seafood, hot pot, eat more nourishing food, such as lily, silver ear, lotus root, etc., drink more water, keep the respiratory tract moist, dry climate in winter, infectious diseases, go out with a mask. Thank you for your attention!

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My father-in-law is not good lungs, especially now in the fall, the weather becomes dry, more prone to coughing, a few days ago I accompanied my wife went back to my mother's home, bought a lot of pears back, ready to give my father-in-law to do the ice-sugar avocado, my father-in-law used to be young when he smoked every day without leaving his hands, a few years ago the body is not good to give up, so I have to say one more thing here: less smoking!

Today, in addition to the ice-sugar snow pears, I would like to introduce a few more foods that are good for the lungs, and I recommend that people with bad lungs eat more of them every day!

1. Apples. Consuming five or more apples per week can improve respiratory and lung function. Apples contain high levels of quercetin and flavonoid antioxidants that protect the lungs from pollution and smoke.Apples can also be used to stew, core and cut into pieces, add icing sugar and stew together can be, and ice sugar snow pear the same way.

2, Lily. Lily can nourish yin and moisturize the lungs to stop coughing, clear the mind and tranquilize the spirit, moisturize the lung effect is very good. Daily can cook porridge or fried vegetables to eat, you can also drink water.

There is a dish very suitable for the elderly to eat, that is, lily fried celery, celery high iron content, is iron deficiency anemia patients with good vegetables, or the treatment of hypertension and its complications of choice. The family has the elderly can eat more.

3, the silver fungus. Silver fungus has the effect of tonifying the spleen and stomach, but also beneficial to clear the intestines, nourishing Yin and moisturizing the role of the lungs. If you do not want to trouble, directly do the silver fungus soup can be, cleaned into the stew pot, add some rock sugar, jujubes, wolfberries, etc., stewed on forty or fifty minutes can eat.