What is good to soak your feet in when coughing

Cough is generally very common in clinical practice, mainly due to respiratory infection with viruses, bacteria or pathogenic microorganisms, mycoplasma. Clinically, especially in the cold winter, a slight inadvertent cold can lead to respiratory tract infection and cause cough symptoms.

For cough, treatment is mainly symptomatic, and if the patient has a dry cough, cough suppressants can be used appropriately. If the cough is severe, appropriate antitussive drugs can be used, such as dextromethorphan, cough biqing, etc.

In view of the phenomenon of excessive phlegm in the patient's cough, symptomatic treatment such as anti-infection, cough suppressant and phlegm should be given in time. Therefore, for the treatment of cough, the key is to find out the precipitating factors, and then give corresponding symptomatic treatment.

For cough patients, especially in winter, cough caused by cold and cold, you can also soak your feet with some Chinese herbs at this time, which will also help relieve cough symptoms. Generally, it is commonly used to soak mugwort leaves in water, mugwort leaves are generally boiled after putting an appropriate amount, the water is warmer, and then soak the feet, at this time, the cold in the body can be removed, so for some cough symptoms caused by cold cold, the effect is more ideal.

At the same time, it should be noted that patients should not eat spicy and stimulating food, and the diet should be light, and drink more water, smoking and alcohol should be prohibited.