Benefits of reflexology, herbal foot soak for cough

Traditional Chinese medicine is especially effective in the treatment of coughs because of its careful differentiation of the various types. For example, a cough due to heat produces sticky phlegm that is difficult to expectorate; it is treated with cooling, moistening herbs that clear heat from the lungs. On the other hand, a cough due to cold is accompanied by chills and copious mucus; it is treated with warming, drying herbs and the application of soak bath.

1. Ma gui Su Xin Tang
Ingredients: 10 grams of ephedra, cassia twig, perilla leaf and asarum.

Usage: First, decoct the herbs in the pot with water, then pour the decoction into a basin with hot water basin (water temperature is about 50 degrees), finally start to soak your feet. Each time 15-30 minutes, 2-3 times a day, 1 dose per day, for 3-5 days continuously.

Efficacy: Applicable to cough due to cold, itching throat, cough with white or sticky phlegm, nasal congestion, runny nose and so on.

2. Houttuynia soup
Ingredients: Houttuynia 150g, Asarum 100g, Ephedra 50g.

Usage: First, decoct the herbs in the pot with water, then pour the decoction into a basin with hot water basin (water temperature is about 50 degrees), finally start to soak your feet. Each time 15-30 minutes, 2-3 times a day, 1 dose per day, for 3-5 days continuously.

Efficacy: Suitable for cough due to heat, dry mouth and sore throat.

3. Chen Xia Fu Ling Tang 
Ingredients:  dried tangerine peel 10 grams, Rhizoma Pinelliae preparatum 10 grams, semen brassicae 5 grams, fructus perillae 5 grams.

Usage: First, decoct the herbs in the pot with water, then pour the decoction into a basin with hot water basin (water temperature is about 50 degrees), finally start to soak your feet. Each time 15-30 minutes, 2-3 times a day, 1 dose per day, for 3-5 days continuously.

Efficacy: Suitable for cough due to dampness, morning and evening cough.