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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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[Products for cleansing the lungs
The lungs of a person who has quit smoking are capable of independent recovery. The correct diet and products for cleansing the lungs will do a good job in eliminating the adverse effects of smoking tobacco:
- pineapples;
- apples;
- garlic, ginger, horseradish;
- colored fruits and vegetables;
- green tea;
- broth from the home chicken (with onion, garlic);
- pure water.
Strong support for cleansing from mucus and poisonous substances, the lungs receive from
- water procedures;
- herbal inhalations;
- physical exercises;
- respiratory gymnastics;
- a deep inhalation of clean air.
Self-cleansing is a long process: at best, the respiratory organs will regain their former strength in a few months, and long-term smokers take almost a year to do this. The signal of recovery is the cessation of coughing and sputum discharge, which actually alleviates the lungs from phlegm.
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When diseases (bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis) in the respiratory organs, sputum, toxins, and the remains of inflamed tissues also accumulate. Alternative medicine offers quite effective recipes for their resorption and removal (oat milk, pine milk, pine jam, garlic onion syrup, herbal teas). There are also techniques for periodic cleaning of the lungs based on herbal decoctions, juices, dried fruits, coniferous teas, viburnum with honey, honey water and so on.
Which products are useful for a light smoker?
To determine which products are useful for a smoker, you should understand their composition. After all, a diet rich in necessary substances is an important help in healing the lungs and the body as a whole.
- Garlic contains an active component of allicin (splits viscous and withdraws it from the lungs). A similar influence is exerted by other spicy roots.
- Apples are useful every day thanks to ascorbic acid, magnesium.
- Pineapples remove toxins, purify lungs, rejuvenate the body thanks to the presence of bromelin.
- Green tea is especially useful after dinner: it has anti-cancer properties, facilitates the breathing of chronic smokers.
- Tea made from thyme, cardamom, fenugreek improves expectoration.
- Water in quantities of more than two liters a day actively removes toxins.
- Vegetables and fruits of bright colors should be consumed without restriction, several servings per day. They will strengthen immunity, vitaminize and saturate with minerals.
- Tuna, salmon, cod, sweet corn are useful sources of antioxidants that counteract the development of cancerous tumors.
A simple and affordable method of purification is the use of such products for the lungs as honey water (30%), tea from conifers.
From the diet it is necessary to exclude or at least limit the harmful products for the lungs: sugar, salt, spicy seasonings, fish and meat broths.
Nutritionists consider it desirable for the light smoker to have a fractional diet and mandatory - the use of fresh products of natural origin. It is not out of place and the consultation of a pulmonologist.
The most useful products for the lungs
Lungs serve a person around the clock, but they themselves often are unprotected. It is quite possible to render tangible support to the respiratory system with the help of the most useful products for the lungs:
- cabbage of all kinds - useful due to the abundance of antioxidants;
- fruits of orchards and gardens of red-orange coloring - the presence of carotenoids protects against cancerous tumors and asthma (grenades, grapefruits relieve lungs of carcinogens);
- linseed, olive oil, a variety of nuts contain fatty acids;
- sea fish are also a storehouse of super-useful omega-3 acids;
- milk, sour milk production is very important for pulmonary tissues with calcium;
- lentils, beets, asparagus, spinach - provide cancer prevention;
- garlic contains allicin, which opposes cancer and asthma;
- Kiwi, pineapples - rich in vitamin C, improve breathing;
- berries - the polyphenols and flavonoids contained in them accelerate recovery after infections, inflammations, protect against neoplasm;
- apples of all sorts are also saturated with flavonoids and vitamins, minerals: useful for preventing pulmonary diseases;
- spices (turmeric, ginger) - clean the lungs of harmful substances, protect against inflammation and tumors;
- Nuts, seeds, legumes - are especially useful to asthmatics (as a source of magnesium);
- water is necessary for the dissolution of nutrients and elimination of hazardous substances, for thermoregulation and other vital functions.
Unfortunately, with the development of the society, respiratory diseases do not become less, and smoking in many countries does not cease to be a social problem. Properly selected and prepared foods help to clear the lungs after illness, as well as from the adverse effects of smoking.