Recommended foods and drinks for bronchitis: drink a glass of clean water, homemade chicken soup also thins mucus, 2 thin mucus secretions; add garlic or ginger for flavour and immune support.

To reduce on phlegm have some hot barley soup, onions are an old folk remedy and have anti-inflammatory properties, so eat them often.

Consume nondairy sour products e.g. kefir and sauerkraut. The symptoms of acute and chronic BRONCHITIS include a cough that may start out dry but that turns deep and productive, with thick clear or yellow mucus. It usually follows a viral infection, long bouts of acute bronchitis that recur frequently, a persistent, constant cough that is worse upon waking, breathlessness and wheezing.