What foods can children eat when they have fever?

What foods are good to eat when you have a cold and fever

Initial stage of a cold

Brown sugar ginger soup

The gingerol and zingerone in ginger can Sweating can drive away the heat accumulated in the body, especially ginger, which has less water, and has a better effect on promoting blood circulation. Adding brown sugar can replenish calories.

However, ginger soup is only suitable for people suffering from external wind and cold. It is not suitable for people with heat colds. Moreover, ginger will promote blood circulation, so don’t eat it if you have inflammation or bleeding.

Fruits

Some people think that you should eat more fruits during a cold. Liu Jianhui, a family medicine physician at Taiwan Adventist Hospital, said it depends on individual circumstances. Eating more fruits can supplement vitamin C, but whether vitamin C can treat or prevent colds is still controversial.

Furthermore, most juices or fruits are cold, which may cause bronchoconstriction and aggravate coughs. Except for those with fever, they are not suitable for consumption during colds.

In particular, fruits with high water content, such as watermelon and pears, are relatively cold. If you have a cough, runny nose, diarrhea, cold hands and feet, etc., eating them will make your condition worse.

Eat fruits and vegetables because fruits and vegetables are alkaline foods, which are not conducive to the reproduction of viruses and other microorganisms after ingestion. Therefore, eating more foods rich in calcium, zinc and vitamins will have a certain inhibitory effect on viruses

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People all know to eat easy-to-digest liquid diets, such as vegetable soup, gruel, egg soup, custard, milk, etc. They also know that they should eat more foods rich in vitamin C and vitamin E.

But what people don’t know is that red foods are rich in carotene, such as tomatoes, apples, grapes, dates, strawberries, etc., which are also very helpful for the recovery of colds.

When choosing different medicines and foods, it is best to ask a doctor for diagnosis or to judge by yourself what kind of cold you have.

Wind-cold cold is characterized by fever and cold sensitivity, headache, itchy throat, general malaise, nasal congestion, runny nose, cough and thin white phlegm, etc.

Wind-heat cold is characterized by severe fever. , head swelling and pain, sore throat, thirst, coughing and spitting out yellow phlegm, etc.

Symptoms of the internal and external type include high fever, headache and dizziness, sore limbs, sore throat, dry stool, etc.

The symptoms of gastrointestinal cold are fever, nausea, headache, and tired limbs.

Dietary therapy for wind-cold and cold: It is advisable to eat more foods that induce sweating and dispel cold, such as peppers, onions, ginger, garlic, tofu, fresh ginger and brown sugar water, etc.

Some studies believe that chicken soup can help people get rid of influenza, and drinking chicken soup can help excrete the virus from the body.

Chicken soup contains a variety of amino acids needed by the human body, which can effectively enhance the body's resistance. Drinking chicken soup when you have a cold is suitable for people who are very weak, but people who are very strong and overweight should not eat it with food. Warm and tonic chicken soup and other foods, otherwise the condition may worsen.

Dietary therapy for wind-heat and cold: It is advisable to eat more foods that can help dissipate wind-heat and clear away heat, such as mung beans, radish, cabbage, cabbage root, mint, tea, etc. You can use fresh pear juice and rice in an appropriate amount Cook the porridge and eat it hot.

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During a cold, you should try to eat as little or no high-fat, high-protein and spicy foods, and avoid drinking alcoholic beverages, otherwise the condition will easily worsen.

Pear is a cold food in traditional Chinese medicine and is suitable for symptoms such as cough, chest pain, and excessive phlegm caused by wind-heat cold.

Dietary therapy with both internal and external senses: The diet should be light and not greasy, which not only meets nutritional needs but also increases appetite. For example, eat more millet porridge, adzuki bean porridge, etc.

You must also ensure the supply of water. You can drink more acidic juices, such as hawthorn juice, kiwi juice, and red date juice, to increase appetite.

Drinking more water is very important, because a fever is when the body inside the human body fights against cold viruses, which causes the body temperature to rise. At this time, it is especially easy to be dehydrated, so you must pay attention to replenishing water. Otherwise, you will experience dry mouth and tongue.

Sour foods such as vinegar, lemon juice, and dried plums also have a significant effect on increasing appetite

Dietary therapy for gastrointestinal colds: chrysanthemum, Longjing tea, mung beans and brown sugar instead of tea. At the same time, eating more vegetables and fruits rich in calcium, zinc and vitamins, such as radishes, pears, kiwis and various mushrooms, can relieve cold symptoms.

Dietary therapy for gastrointestinal colds: chrysanthemum, Longjing tea, mung beans and brown sugar instead of tea

You should drink more boiled water after a cold, because sufficient water can dilute the toxins in the blood , accelerate the excretion of metabolites, thereby reducing the symptoms of colds and shortening the course of the disease.

What are the taboos for cold patients

The so-called taboos refer specifically to the dietary taboos of patients with the disease. As we all know, food, like medicine, has its own biases. For example, glutinous rice is sweet and warm in nature and sticky in texture, while white wine is pungent and hot in nature, etc.

Therefore, there are issues of dietary taboos, including the way of eating, the quality and quantity of food, the interaction between diets, the relationship between diet and physical constitution or disease, and the incompatibility of diet and drugs, etc. content.

The study of dietary taboos in patients' diseases focuses on the relationship between diet and disease and the incompatibility between diet and drugs.

What are the taboos for colds?

First, let’s talk about eating in moderation. After a cold, appetite often decreases, which is more prominent when there is fever.

Modern medicine believes that various digestive enzymes are destroyed or have low activity during fever, causing patients to not want to eat. If you insist on eating too much, you will often experience indigestion symptoms such as fullness and fullness, which will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and hinder the body's ability to concentrate on resisting external evils. It may delay the recovery of a cold or even aggravate the condition. Therefore, it is better for cold patients to eat less.

How to control the degree of undereating should be based on ensuring the energy supply of the whole body. This involves the quality of diet. Patients with colds are advised to eat more light, easy-to-digest foods, such as rice porridge, noodles, etc., and avoid fried and greasy foods.

Some people even propose "fasting therapy", that is, stopping eating after catching a cold and only drinking soup. Sometimes, unexpected effects can be achieved.

Of course, this method is not suitable for everyone. It can be tried for patients who are usually strong and have mild colds. Please don't forget to have enough energy reserves, otherwise it will backfire.

Finally, let’s focus on what foods should be avoided when you have a cold. This aspect is related to taking medicine, that is, food taboos after taking medicine.

On the other hand, we should pay attention to the relationship with the disease. In the early stage of a cold, if the cold is caused by wind and cold and you are taking medicine to relieve the cold, you should avoid eating cold and greasy foods.

In the initial clearing stage, you should also avoid eating raw and cold foods. Once the heat evil persists and strong heat remains, thirst, irritability, and constipation will follow. At this time, you need the help of fruits, and you can take pears frequently. Juice, orange juice, watermelon, stem rice soup, mung bean soup, etc. Do not eat too much raw, cold, or greasy food.

What I mentioned above are mainly issues of principle. Specifically, during a cold, avoid eating or eating too much duck, pork, mutton, dog meat, soft-shell turtle, clam, vinegar, persimmon and other foods.

Because a cold is an exogenous disease, treatment should focus on evacuation and relieving the symptoms. Duck meat is cooler in nature, greasy and honey-rich, and can easily slip the intestines and astringent evil spirits. Pork meat is greasy, promotes dampness and produces phlegm, stimulates wind and accumulates dampness

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Mutton is sweet It warms and helps heat, tends to be warm in the middle and warms down, and has the disadvantage of restraining evil; dog meat is also warm in nature, and can easily help heat and cause fire, so it is contraindicated by heat syndrome; soft-shell turtle is sweet and moist, and has the disadvantage of restraining evil

< p>Clams, also known as river clams, are cold in nature and have the power of nourishing yin and cooling. Eating too much will hinder the evacuation of external evils; vinegar is sour and astringent, and it is easy to stagnate and retain Qi after eating.

Persimmon properties Cold, astringent and stagnant, eating too much can easily agglomerate evil spirits. Therefore, the above-mentioned foods are all taboos for colds.

Eating by mistake or eating too much is often not conducive to the evacuation of external evils, and sometimes can even aggravate the condition, which requires attention.

What should you not eat if you have a cold?

Seafood products such as fish, shrimp, etc. Eating chicken and drinking chicken soup will help you get better quickly.

When you have a cold, whether you have a cold or a cold, avoid eating any nourishing, greasy, or sour foods, such as pork, duck, chicken, lamb, glutinous rice, astragalus, polygonatum, and Ophiopogon japonicus. , ginseng, placenta, donkey hide gelatin, various sea fish, shrimps, crabs, longan meat, pomegranates, black plums, and various glutinous desserts.

People with colds and colds should also avoid eating the above-mentioned cold foods, such as persimmons, persimmons, tofu, mung bean sprouts, snails, snails, clam meat, clam meat, raw radish, raw lotus root, raw sweet potato, Lettuce melon, raw pear, raw and cold water chestnuts, Luo Han Guo, cold tea, chrysanthemum brain, mint, honeysuckle, white chrysanthemum, pomelo.

People with wind-heat and cold should also avoid eating ginger, pepper, cinnamon, fennel, cloves, amomum villosum, white wine, cordyceps, etc.

"Seven Drinks" to Prevent Colds in Autumn

1. Scallion White Drink: 100 grams of green onion, chopped and decoction, drink while hot.

2. Ginger tea: 10 slices of ginger, 7 grams of tea leaves, decoct and drink while hot.

3. Ginger and jujube drink: 5 slices of ginger, 10 jujubes, decoct into soup and drink while hot.

4. Radish drink: Slice an appropriate amount of radish and decoct it into soup, add a little vinegar and drink it while it is hot.

5. Three spicy drinks: appropriate amounts of garlic, scallions, and ginger, decoct the soup and drink it hot.

6. Orange peel drink: 50 grams of fresh orange peel, appropriate amount of sugar, brewed with boiling water instead of tea.

7. Chrysanthemum drink: 6 grams of chrysanthemum, brewed with boiling water instead of tea.

Drink water

Cold patients should drink more water, because a fever causes your body to lose a lot of water. You can drink distilled water or fruit and vegetable juice, which are good liquid supplements. Fruit and vegetable juice can also supplement you with essential vitamins and minerals, especially vitamin C.

Chicken Soup

Drink hot chicken soup, such as black-bone chicken or turkey. Hot chicken soup is a good medicine for cold patients. It can not only supplement necessary protein and nutrients, it is also easy to digest and absorb, and can promote the body's immunity and speed up recovery.

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What foods should children eat when they have a cold and fever?

Children's cold and fever are common diseases in pediatric internal medicine. Most cold patients do not have high fever or systemic symptoms, only fever. Feelings such as low-grade fever, headache, and discomfort.

Children's colds and fevers are both beneficial and harmful to the human body. The human body's immune function is significantly enhanced when a fever occurs, which is beneficial to eliminating pathogens and promoting the recovery of diseases.

Therefore, there is no need to use antipyretic drugs when the body temperature is not too high. You only need to pay close attention to changes in body temperature. When the temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees, you should give your baby antipyretic drugs.

Generally, nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose, throat discomfort, mild cough, fever, etc. will occur 1 to 3 days after infection. The fever varies, and severe cases include chills, high fever, headache, Loss of appetite, general fatigue, etc.

Theoretically, colds are self-limiting diseases. Even without taking medicine, most children can recover on their own in about a week as long as they drink plenty of water and take good care.

However, babies have weak tolerance to diseases and their condition changes rapidly, so even a mild cold cannot be taken lightly.

The treatment of colds and fevers is mainly symptomatic, and drugs containing acetaminophen and other ingredients are commonly used.

Acetaminophen has antipyretic and analgesic effects; amantadine can resist "sub-A" influenza virus and inhibit virus reproduction; caffeine is a central stimulant and can enhance the effect of acetaminophen. It has antipyretic and analgesic effects and is suitable for relieving symptoms such as fever, headache, sore limbs, sneezing, runny nose, stuffy nose, sore throat and other symptoms caused by common colds and influenza in children.

Principles should be followed when using medicine for children with colds and fevers

1. The dose should not be too large and the time of taking should not be too long.

2. Drink more boiled water while taking the medicine to facilitate the absorption and excretion of the medicine and reduce the toxicity of the medicine to the child's body.

3. Children under 3 years old, whose liver and kidneys are not yet mature, should take small doses.

4. Children or family members with a history of allergies to antipyretics should not use antipyretics.

5. Do not take antipyretic drugs at the same time as alkaline drugs, such as baking soda, aminophylline, etc., otherwise the antipyretic effect will be reduced.

1. Rest

Increase the rest time and ensure that the child has sufficient sleep time to enhance the child's ability to resist disease.

Paying more attention to rest can help you reduce the weakness caused by catching a cold. It is necessary to rest more to help yourself recover your physical strength, so you must pay attention to this.

2. Observe the body temperature

If the child's body temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees Celsius, it means that the child has a fever, and physical cooling (warm water bath) or drug cooling (preferably under the guidance of a doctor) should be carried out immediately proceed below).

3. Diet

Children with colds often have poor appetite. Therefore, parents can arrange the eating time when the body temperature is close to normal after the fever subsides, and give the children something light and easy to eat. Digested food.

4. Replenish water

Especially when you have high fever, you should eat more to replenish the loss of water.

5. Clothing and bedding should be appropriate

Do not overdress or cover your child when he or she has a high fever, because on the one hand, it is difficult for the child to dissipate heat and increase body temperature; On the one hand, it will cause children to sweat excessively and cause water loss.

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The correct way is not to wear too many clothes when you have a fever. You should take off some clothes when sleeping to avoid catching a cold after getting up. You can cover yourself with a little more quilt than usual, but It should be reduced in time after sweating.

6. Keep the stool smooth

Keeping the stool smooth will help the child's body temperature return to normal. If a child has constipation, parents can use Kaiserlu to relieve it.

Preventive measures for children with colds and fever

Ensuring essential nutrients

Children are in the growth and development stage, have strong metabolism, and have relatively higher energy and nutrient requirements than adults. High. Only by meeting the nutritional needs of children can we ensure normal physical and intellectual development and develop good physical fitness.

A reasonable diet should not only pay attention to the dietary structure, and achieve the matching of staple and non-staple food, coarse and fine grains, meat and vegetables, but also cultivate children's good eating habits, eat regularly and quantitatively, and not have a partial eclipse. Choose your food and try to eat as few snacks as possible, especially sugary snacks and cold drinks.

Although candies can increase children’s fun and provide some heat energy, eating too much can suppress appetite and is not good for children’s health.

Pay attention to physical exercise

Physical exercise can promote children's growth and development, improve their ability to adapt to the natural environment and enhance their resistance, reduce diseases and maintain health. The method of physical exercise varies depending on the age of the child. It can be carried out in daily life using air, sunlight and water, or it can be carried out through games and sports.

Children should be appropriately dressed since birth and do not need to be overly warm. The temperature in the room should be suitable, and the room temperature should not be too high in winter. It should be ventilated regularly to keep the air fresh.

Educate children to gradually live in a colder environment. Outdoor activities allow them to breathe fresh air, so that the skin can be exposed to ultraviolet rays in the sun and increase the synthesis of vitamin D in the body, which is beneficial to Bone growth, preventing the occurrence of rickets.

Children’s outdoor activity time in summer should be kept at more than 2 hours a day. A certain amount of time should also be arranged for outdoor activities in winter.

Pay attention to environmental hygiene

In seasons with changeable climate, parents should strengthen the care of their children and add or remove clothes in time according to climate changes.

Because you are active and prone to sweating, you should not wear too many clothes, let alone the standards of adults, especially the elderly, but should adjust the temperature at the right time.

During colds and fever, the secretion of digestive juices is reduced, the activity of digestive enzymes is reduced, gastrointestinal motility is slow, and digestive function is abnormal, often manifested as loss of appetite.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "sweetness can damage the spleen." If children eat too many sweets at this time, a large amount of vitamins will be consumed in the body. When the human body lacks these vitamins, the saliva in the mouth will decrease, and the appetite will become worse. Especially before meals, if you eat more sugar, it will cause blood sugar to rise, making the child lose hunger and be reluctant to eat when it is time to eat.

Eating too many sweets can also lower your immunity. A large number of sweets are rich in sucrose, fructose and other ingredients. When the body's blood sugar exceeds a certain level, the following two situations will occur.

First, it prompts Staphylococcus aureus and other purulent bacteria to accelerate the growth and reproduction, causing skin infections such as boils.

Second, when sugar is decomposed in the body to generate heat, a large amount of pyruvate is produced. , lactic acid and other acidic metabolites, making the body acidic.

Acidic body constitution is not only prone to infection, but can also cause other childhood diseases, such as rickets, beriberi, chronic indigestion, bad temper, etc. In severe cases, it can also cause immune system diseases.

When children have a cold or fever, they should rest more and drink more water to help cool down and excrete harmful substances in the body. It is better to eat a light, digestible and nutritious diet.

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What to eat when you have a cold, cold or fever

You have a cold, but even though it is a minor illness, you feel uncomfortable.

But because it’s a minor illness and I don’t want to take medicine, what should I do?

In fact, adjusting your diet can be helpful in treating colds. Here are some vegetables and fruits that the editor has compiled that you should eat more when you have colds and colds. For reference, I hope you get better soon!

What vegetables are good to eat when you have a cold?

People with a cold or cold should eat warm or neutral foods, such as chili, pepper, Cinnamon, rice porridge, amomum villosum, kumquat, lemon, bergamot, onion, pumpkin, green vegetables, lentils, adzuki beans, bean sprouts, cowpea, apricot, peach, cherry, hawthorn, etc.

Wind-heat type What kind of fruits are good to eat when you have a cold? People with wind-heat type colds should eat cold-cooling items, such as mung beans, apples, persimmon cream, pancakes, tangerines, oranges, kiwis, strawberries, Luo Han Guo, figs, celery, cress, water spinach, Amaranth, spinach, daylily, lettuce, wolfberry head, tofu, gluten, wax gourd, gourd, sweet potato, loofah, fat seaweed, malan head, cabbage melon, mung bean sprouts, persimmon, banana, watermelon, bitter melon, sugar cane, tomato, etc.

Nutritionists point out that eating more vegetables and fruits rich in calcium, zinc and vitamins has a better nutritional and conditioning effect on the monocyte-macrophage system that produces antibodies.

Eat more vegetables and fruits that are rich in calcium, zinc and vitamins, which have better nutritional and conditioning effects on the monocyte-macrophage system that produces antibodies

Green leafy vegetables Contains more vitamin C, which has a certain inhibitory effect on cold viruses. Many vegetables and fruits, such as radishes, pears, kiwis, citrus and various mushrooms, contain certain chemically active ingredients that can improve the body's immunity. Eating more appropriately can also play a role in preventing colds.

Eating more zinc-rich seafood such as oysters is also beneficial to regulating the body's cellular immune status to prevent colds.

In addition, fruits and vegetables are alkaline foods, which can maintain a certain alkaline environment in the body after ingestion, which is not conducive to the reproduction of viruses and other microorganisms.

Pear

Pear is cool in nature and sweet in taste. It can produce fluid, clear away heat and resolve phlegm. It is suitable for consumption during wind-heat cold, fever, dry mouth and yellow phlegm when coughing. It is a folk custom for people with wind-heat, cold and cough to use 1 raw pear, wash it and chop it into pieces, add rock sugar and stew it before taking it.

Ginger

It is warm in nature and pungent in taste. It has the functions of dispelling cold and sweating, relieving surface and dispelling wind, and is suitable for people with colds and colds. Folks often brew 3 slices of ginger, an appropriate amount of brown sugar, and boiling water. It is commonly known as ginger brown sugar tea. Drinking it frequently will relieve sweating.

Scallion White

Warm in nature and pungent in taste, it has the function of regulating body temperature and normalizing the perspiration of sweat glands, and can reduce and prevent the occurrence of colds. Suitable for people with colds and colds.

Olive

Also known as green fruit. It has the effects of clearing the lungs, soothing the throat and resolving phlegm, and is especially suitable for people with wind-heat cold and sore throat. Folk custom is to use 2 to 5 olives, split them, half to one fresh radish (either red or white skinned), cut into pieces, and boil water instead of tea.

Water chestnuts

It is suitable for people with wind-heat and cold who have cough and yellow phlegm, sore throat, dry mouth and thirst. It has the effects of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, and quenching thirst. It can be eaten raw, cooked, or juiced for drinking. If you decoct it with jellyfish skin and drink it, it will have a better effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

Radish

It has the functions of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. It is especially suitable for people with coughs caused by wind-heat and colds with a lot of phlegm

According to traditional Chinese medicine, "cold people" The treatment principle is to treat “heat, cold”, “replenish the deficiency, and purge the excess”:

It is not enough to just know what fruits and vegetables are good for colds. If you want to truly treat colds, To stay away from cold medicines, start by strengthening your immunity.

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External evil invades the human body, usually from the fur, mouth and nose, to the lungs and guard. When cold evil invades the body surface, people often feel afraid of the cold and want to wear more clothes. In addition, sneezing, runny nose, and itchy throat are also common early symptoms of colds. Cold evil has the property of "retracting" and invades the human body, causing symptoms such as loss of sweat, headache, and even soreness in the limbs. When external evil invades, the human body will generate heat by inciting "righteousness" to fight against it.

Therefore, when people catch a cold, they will feel like they are cold. On the one hand, they feel obviously afraid of the cold, but on the other hand, their bodies are still generating heat. When the lungs are injured, coughing and phlegm will occur. During colds and colds, the phlegm is mostly thin and white phlegm.

Chili pepper

Chili pepper is pungent and hot. The pungent energy can dissipate and the heat can dispel cold. Therefore, it has the function of dispersing cold and causing sweating, which is especially suitable for colds and wind-chills.

"Properties of Medicine" points out that pepper "warms the body and dispels cold, removes wind and induces sweating". Therefore, it is appropriate to eat chili peppers if you have a cold or cold, but it is best not to eat them if you have a cold or cold.

Using chili and ginger to make soup can also treat colds and colds. It is especially suitable for patients with indigestion.

Cilantro

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coriander is pungent and warm in nature, enters the lungs and spleen meridian, has the effect of causing sweating, rashes, digestion and lowering qi, and is suitable for colds, measles or rubella in children. Poor hair circulation, stagnant diet, indigestion, etc. "Food Classic" says that it "regulates food and lowers Qi". "Dietotherapeutic Materia Medica" says that it "benefits the five internal organs, nourishes the muscles and veins, mainly eliminates grains and enables food to be eaten, and treats intestinal wind".

Appropriate amounts of coriander, fresh green onions, and ginger. Wash the three, put them into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water and decoct to extract the juice. Drink and take it frequently, 1 dose a day for 2 to 3 days. It can induce sweating and relieve the symptoms, and is suitable for colds, colds, nasal congestion and runny nose.

Garlic

Garlic is warm in nature and pungent in taste. It has the effect of preventing and treating colds. It is suitable for both colds and colds.

For colds and colds, decoction with garlic, scallions and ginger can be taken warmly and sweated; eating garlic in summer can relieve heat, so anyone with a cold can eat it.

Perilla

Perilla is warm in nature and pungent in taste. It has the effects of producing sweat, dispersing cold, and reducing fever. It is suitable for people with colds and colds. If a person with qi deficiency suffers from colds and colds, it is advisable to mix perilla leaves and rice into a gruel for consumption. Since the unique aroma contained in perilla is perilla acetaldehyde, that is, perilla olein, which is easy to volatilize and become fermented, when cooking perilla porridge, it is advisable to add 10 grams of perilla leaves when the porridge is almost cooked, and boil it slightly. Cook for a long time.

For patients with mild cold symptoms such as chills, nasal congestion, and throat discomfort, perilla leaf decoction alone is effective. The intensity is relatively mild, therefore, patients with obvious cold symptoms need to be used together with other anti-inflammatory drugs such as ginger and patchouli.

Pepper

Pepper can prevent and treat colds caused by wind and cold. Freshly grind the pepper and boil it with brown sugar water and take it orally. The effect is very good and the taste is also good. Generally speaking, white pepper has slightly higher medicinal value and slightly less seasoning effect. Its taste is spicier than black pepper, so it has stronger functions of dispelling cold and strengthening the stomach.

When you have a cold, you can make tea with chili, pepper, and tea leaves; when you have a cough, you can simmer and roast it with egg yolk, white pepper, and walnut kernels, then grind it and take it; when you have a stomachache, you can use pepper and ebony. , red dates are made into pills and taken with vinegar soup.

Tempeh

Tempeh is a traditional Chinese medicine. It is suitable for people with colds and colds, cold and fever, headaches due to cold and heat, nasal congestion, sneezing, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea; people with fullness and tightness in the chest and diaphragm, and irritability are advised to eat it. Tempeh also increases appetite and promotes absorption with its unique aroma.

Tempeh has a neutral nature and can dissolve external evils. Folks often use tempeh with scallions, decoction or porridge. It is suitable for both colds and colds. It can induce sweating and reduce fever. effect.

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What foods should be eaten to get better quickly when you have a cold or fever?

According to traditional Chinese medicine, “Cold is treated with heat, hot is treated with cold, and deficiency is supplemented. The treatment principle of "Those who suffer from the disease will purge it":

People with colds and colds should eat warm or neutral foods, such as peppers, peppercorns, cinnamon, rice porridge, amomum villosum, kumquats, lemons, and bergamot. , onions, pumpkins, vegetables, lentils, adzuki beans, bean sprouts, cowpeas, apricots, peaches, cherries, hawthorns, etc.

People with wind-heat colds should eat cold items, such as mung beans, apples, and persimmons. Frost, locust cake, tangerine, orange, kiwi, strawberry, mangosteen, fig, celery, cress, water spinach, amaranth, spinach, daylily, lettuce, wolfberry head, tofu, gluten, winter melon, gourd, sweet potato, loofah, fat The sea, malantou, cabbage melon, mung bean sprouts, persimmon, banana, watermelon, bitter melon, sugar cane, tomato, etc.

Onions

Onions have the effect of dispersing wind and cold, have a pungent smell, can resist colds, resist influenza, and have strong bactericidal effects. Onions are rich in nutrients and can stimulate the secretion of the stomach, intestines and digestive glands, increase appetite, promote digestion, and promote the excretion of sodium, thus lowering blood pressure. Therefore, they are good for health care for patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. effect. Functional characteristics: cold resistance, sterilization, gastrointestinal stimulation, and promotion of digestion.

Chicken soup

Drinking more chicken soup during the seasons and when the temperature changes greatly can improve the immune function of healthy people.

People who have caught a cold can drink some chicken soup to reduce mucus secretions in the respiratory tract and the number of coughs, and relieve the pain caused by the cold. The nutrients contained in the broth can help the patient maintain the energy needed by the body and help reduce the patient's drowsiness symptoms.

Honey

Honey has the effect of nourishing yin, moistening dryness and enhancing immunity. According to a recent study, honey can adhere to the throat, reduce coughs caused by throat irritation, and improve sleep quality. When you have a continuous cough due to a cold, drinking a glass of honey water is a good choice. Experts remind: Diabetic patients and those with poor gastrointestinal digestion function should pay attention to eating less.

Honey is very effective. It contains many nutrients that are beneficial to the human body and some honey water can effectively moisturize the body. Therefore, many people now like to take honey.

Green tea

Green tea not only refreshes the mind, protects the teeth and improves eyesight, but the antioxidants it contains also help to enhance the body's immune function and resist the invasion of viruses and bacteria. A new study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Nutrition found that after experimenters took a specially formulated green tea capsule, their chances of suffering from common colds and flu were reduced by 23%, and the duration of the disease was shortened by 36%. The subjects also produced more immune cells capable of fighting bacteria and viruses. April is the season when fresh green tea is on the market. We might as well make a cup of it every day, which will play a very good role in preventing colds.

Orange peel

Add 30 grams of fresh orange peel (15 grams of dried orange peel) to 3 cups of water, fry into 2 cups, add sugar, and drink while hot.

Scallion White

Warm in nature and pungent in taste, it has the function of regulating body temperature and normalizing the perspiration of sweat glands, and can reduce and prevent the occurrence of colds. Suitable for people with colds and colds.

Honeysuckle

It has a heat-clearing effect and is commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat wind-heat and colds. "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": "Honeysuckle clears away heat and detoxifies, and treats exogenous fever and cough. It can be made into herbal tea to prevent heatstroke and colds." Those who suffer from summer wind-heat colds, fever and sore throat should use honeysuckle to make tea and drink it frequently.

Lotus leaf

It is suitable for people suffering from wind-heat and cold in summer. It has the effect of clearing away heat. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "The lotus leaf clears the head of wind and heat." "Compendium of Materia Medica" also says: "It is cool and relieves heat, quenches thirst and promotes fluid production, and relieves fire and heat." Therefore, in the hot summer season, decoction of lotus leaves in water can be used instead of tea. Drinking it frequently is most suitable for preventing and treating summer colds.

Mint

Cold in nature and pungent in taste, it can dispel wind, dissipate heat and soothe the throat. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Mint has pungent properties and cooling properties, and is good at dissipating wind and heat." It is suitable for people with wind-heat colds, headaches, red eyes, and sore throats to make tea and drink.

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White chrysanthemum

For those suffering from wind-heat and cold, 5 grams of white chrysanthemum should be brewed with boiling water instead of tea. It is especially suitable for drinking when the summer is hot. It has the effects of dispelling wind, clearing away heat, improving eyesight, detoxifying and dispelling heat.

Coriander

It is warm in nature and pungent in taste. It is suitable for people with colds and colds. Folks like to use 30 grams each of coriander and maltose, add half a bowl of rice soup, steam it and eat it.

Olive

Also known as green fruit. It has the functions of clearing the lungs, soothing the throat and resolving phlegm, and is especially suitable for people with wind-heat cold and sore throat. Folk custom is to use 2 to 5 olives, split them, and cut half to one fresh radish (either red or white skinned) into boiled water instead of tea.

Sweet potatoes

can produce fluid and quench thirst, and can cure eating or cooking. "Lu Chuan Materia Medica" records: "Producing body fluids to quench thirst, and cure fever and thirst." It is suitable for consumption when wind-heat cold, fever, dry mouth, headache and polydipsia.

Water chestnuts

It is suitable for people with wind-heat and cold who have cough and yellow phlegm, sore throat, dry mouth and thirst. It has the effects of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, and quenching thirst. It can be eaten raw, cooked, or juiced for drinking. If you decoct it with jellyfish skin and drink it, it will have a better effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

Pear

Pear is cool in nature and sweet in taste. It can produce fluid, clear away heat, and resolve phlegm. It is suitable for eating due to wind-heat cold, fever, dry mouth and yellow phlegm when coughing. It is a folk custom for people with wind-heat, cold and cough to use 1 raw pear, wash it and chop it into pieces, add rock sugar and stew it before taking it.

Radish

It has the functions of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. It is especially suitable for those who have a cough with a lot of phlegm caused by wind-heat and cold.

During a cold, in addition to taking cold medicine, you can also eat the above medicinal and edible health foods to assist in the treatment of colds.

In addition, people must exercise more to increase their own immunity and resistance. This is fundamental.

1. Astragalus tea prevention method: Take 10 grams of Astragalus, 6 grams of Atractylodes, 6 grams of Fangfeng, and 1 black plum into a thermos cup, brew with boiling water for 10 minutes, drink it as tea, and drink it after Pour boiling water and take one dose a day, which can not only prevent and treat colds, but also enhance disease resistance.

2. Rub the five hearts to reduce fever: Take 15 grams of scallion, 15 grams of ginger, and a little salt, mash them together into a paste, mix with a cup of wine, wrap it with gauze, and rub the front and back of the heart. The heart, palms, soles of the feet, and the center of the ribs will cause sweating and fever-reducing half an hour after applying, and the body will recover the next day.

3. Treatment of colds by applying medicine on the soles of the feet: The patient washes the feet with hot water, drys them and applies a small piece of musk tiger bone ointment to the Yongquan point on the soles of the feet, and replace it every 24 hours.

4. Method for treating colds with poultry eggs: 50 grams of ginger, peeled and cut into shreds, add water to boil, add two duck eggs (shelled and beaten), stir slightly, add 20 ml of white wine, Add a little salt and fry for another 3-5 minutes. Eat eggs and drink soup, eat while it's hot, and cover yourself with a slight sweat. A dose of winter cold can be cured.

5. Acid-base cold treatment: Mix edible baking soda with cold water to make a 6% aqueous solution (or use 5% vinegar), drop 2-3 drops into the nose each time, or use a cotton swab Apply to nostrils every three hours.

6. Steam inhalation method to treat colds: Take a teapot or teacup, pour boiling water into it and breathe through the nostrils to the steam, as close as you can bear, until the water stops steaming. 5 times a day. It is also effective for rhinostomatitis and swelling.

7. Three-flower tea method for treating colds: Take 5 grams of honeysuckle, 4 grams of chrysanthemum, and 3 grams of scented tea (if the throat is dry and itchy or painful, add 3 pieces of Pangda Dahai and 10 grams of rock sugar), brew with boiling water for 5 minutes Drink it after 10 minutes, one dose a day to treat viral colds, drink it for three days in a row, the effect is remarkable.