🌿 Folk Prescriptions

(1) Avoid alcohol and overly salty foods. Their stimulation can heighten bronchial reactivity, worsening cough, shortness of breath, palpitations, and triggering asthma attacks.
(2) Consume high-protein foods such as lean meat, liver, eggs, poultry, soybeans, and bean products to boost calories and immunity. Those with poor digestion should eat smaller meals more frequently.
(3) Increase intake of foods rich in vitamins A, C, and calcium: Vitamin A-rich foods (e.g., pork liver, egg yolks, fish liver oil, carrots, leeks, pumpkin, apricots) moisturize lungs and protect airways; vitamin C-rich foods (e.g., jujubes, tangerines, pomelos, tomatoes, green peppers) have anti-inflammatory, anticancer, and cold-prevention properties; calcium-rich foods (e.g., pork bones, greens, tofu, sesame paste) enhance airway resistance to allergies.
(4) Choose foods based on personal constitution. For those with phlegm accumulation, poor appetite, and white tongue coating, opt for pumpkin, lotus seeds, yam, glutinous rice, and chestnuts to strengthen the spleen; for cold limbs, clear urine, and lower back pain, choose dog meat, sparrow meat, walnuts, ox testicles, and lamb to nourish the kidneys; for excessive sweating and frequent colds, select animal lungs, honey, silver ear fungus, and lilies to tonify the lungs.
(5) Mix 60 grams of alum with 50 ml of vinegar, grind alum into powder, blend with vinegar, apply to foot soles (both Yongquan acupoints) using gauze after washing feet at night, remove upon waking. Repeat daily or every other day for over one month—proven effective for prevention.
(6) Drink coffee regularly: caffeine dilates bronchial passages, reducing or preventing asthma symptoms. Those who drink coffee often experience fewer asthma episodes. Drinking three cups daily produces bronchodilation equivalent to standard theophylline dosage—coffee benefits asthmatics.