For many people, if they have a cough and the symptoms are not very heavy, they will generally run to pharmacies to buy cough syrup. But recently, a new Israeli study shows that a better way to stop coughing is to drink honey. According to experts in traditional Chinese medicine, in the traditional Chinese medicine in the motherland, honey has been used to cure cough.
First, a study shows honey Zhikesheng syrup
Israeli researchers studied 300 children between the ages of 1 and 5, when the children had caught a cold and lasted for several days. The researchers gave one child a teaspoon (10 grams) of honey to one child and one teaspoon of syrup to other children, but the children did not know. The results showed that children who drank honey had generally improved their cold symptoms and had improved cough and sleep quality. The results have been published in the scientific journal Pediatrics. The honeys used in the study were: banyan honey, citrus honey, vanilla honey such as lavender or rosemary honey.
In response, Dr. Pediatrics at Pennsylvania State University in the United States pointed out that honey is rich in antioxidants and can help fight infections caused by colds. In addition, the thicker the honey, the richer its antioxidant composition. For the antitussive effect of honey, Dr. Paul explained that honey's stickiness, sweetness, and high concentration can increase the secretion of saliva and help phlegm and lubricate the respiratory tract.
According to another report from Reuters, a study in the United States in Pennsylvania confirmed that children who suffer from colds drink honey before going to sleep are more effective than cough syrup in relieving cough, and they also sleep more safely.
Second, the Chinese medical treatment of cough has been ancient, but to remind: different types of cough to choose different honey
The reporter learned from major hospitals in Nanjing that the number of cough patients has increased significantly. For many people, if they have a cough and the symptoms are not very heavy, they will generally run to pharmacies to buy cough syrup. But recently, a new Israeli study shows that a better way to stop coughing is to drink honey. According to experts in traditional Chinese medicine, in the traditional Chinese medicine in the motherland, honey has been used to cure cough.
An expert from the Department of Respiratory Medicine of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine said that Chinese medicine practitioners believe that honey is sweet and sweet, and that twelve meridians are responsible for lung, spleen, and large intestine. The main functions are tonic, moisturizing, analgesic, detoxification, and cough relieving. It is commonly used in the treatment of patients with abdominal pain, dryness, dryness, cough, and intestinal constipation. From the Western point of view, honey has a strong inhibitory effect on Gram-positive bacteria such as streptococcus, staphylococcus, and diphtheria. If the effect of honey is better than that of syrup, the main reason may be that it not only relives cough but also moistens the lungs. The effect is even more abundant. Simply put, it is not only a temporary palliative but also a cure for the problem.
Honey cough has been used in China for a long time, many Chinese pharmacy works have honey in the treatment of cough records, in many folk cough remedies in China, but also often can not participate in the participation of honey, many people often have it with some have lung function Pears, white radishes, lilies, etc. are made into a variety of therapeutic diets.
Chinese medicine usually divides cough into five types: wind-heat, wind-chill, damp-heat, phlegm-heat and yin-deficiency and hot-dry. The treatment varies according to each syndrome. Such as sweet-scented osmanthus honey, wolfberry honey detoxification, wind-heat cough patients more applicable; girlfriends have qi, kidney, lungs, for the yin deficiency of hot cough patients have a good role in adjuvant therapy. However, patients with phlegm-type cough should not be used more frequently, because honey is not suitable for damp-resistance coke, abdominal distention and thick greasy moss.
Third, babies under one year old should not eat honey
In addition, experts have reminded that infants under the age of one should not eat honey because honey is susceptible to botulism during brewing, transportation and storage. Because the baby is weak in resistance, after eating Botox, it will breed in the intestine and produce toxins, and the detoxification function of the liver is also poor, so it is easy to cause botulism food poisoning. Infants less than 6 months are more likely to be infected with the disease.