What are the taboos for colds?

The so-called taboos refer specifically to the dietary taboos of patients during their illness. 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. The study of dietary taboos in patients' diseases focuses on the relationship between diet and disease and the incompatibility between diet and drugs. As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, the famous physician Zhang Zhongjing pointed out in "Jinbian Synopsis": "Some of the flavors of food are suitable for the disease, and some are harmful to the body. If it is beneficial, it will benefit the body, and if it is harmful, it will cause disease." The Huangdi Neijing also points out: "Poisons attack evil spirits, five grains are nourishing, five fruits are aids, five animals are beneficial, and five vegetables are supplements. The smells are combined and taken to replenish the essence." It can be seen that Chinese medicine has long recognized that diet Diseases, diets and medicines all have appropriate and inappropriate issues, which must be paid enough attention to. What are the taboos for colds? Let’s talk about eating in moderation first. 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 has to do with the quality of the 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, 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 you are experiencing wind-cold evil and you are taking medicine to relieve external cold, you should avoid eating raw, cold and greasy foods. If it is a warm-heat evil, you should also avoid eating raw and cold food in the early stage of clearing away the cold. If it is not removed, strong heat will remain, followed by thirst, irritability, and constipation. At this time, fruits are needed to help. You can take pear juice, orange juice, watermelon, stem rice soup, mung bean soup, etc. frequently. 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-stagnant, and easily slips the intestines and astringes evil spirits. Pork meat is greasy, promotes dampness and produces phlegm, moves wind and accumulates dampness. Mutton is sweet and warm, helps heat, tends to be warm and warm, and has the effect of astringing evil spirits. Disadvantages: Dog meat is also warm in nature and can easily help heat and generate fire, so it is taboo for heat syndrome; soft-shell turtle is sweet and moisturizing, and has the disadvantage of astringing evil spirits; clams, also known as river clams, are cold in nature and have the power of nourishing yin and cooling, so eat more It hinders the evacuation of external evils; vinegar is sour and astringent, and it is easy to stagnate Qi and retain Qi after eating; persimmon is cold and astringent in nature and astringent, and eating too much can easily astringe 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.