Wind-heat cold diet therapy
Wind-heat cold is caused by wind-heat invading the exterior and disharmony between lung and qi. The symptoms are fever, sweating, sore throat, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, stuffy nose, thin white fur and yellow fur. Wind-heat cold is more common in summer and autumn, which is caused by exogenous wind-heat. Taking ginger and garlic has no effect on wind-heat cold, because ginger and onion are pungent food, which can sweat and relieve exterior syndrome and regulate lung ventilation, but it will promote the heat of wind-heat cold and make the situation develop in a bad direction.
1, mulberry leaf mint drink
Ingredients: 5 grams of mulberry leaves, 5 grams of chrysanthemum, 3 grams of mint and 30 grams of bitter bamboo leaves.
Practice: Wash the liquid medicine, put it in a teapot, soak it in boiling water for 10 minute, and drink it at any time.
Efficacy: This product not only has pungent and cooling effect on wind-heat cold, but also can be used as preventive tea.
2. Sanxiang tea
Materials: honeysuckle 15g, chrysanthemum 10g, jasmine 3g.
Practice: Put honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and jasmine in a teacup, brew with boiling water, and soak for 10~ 15 minutes before drinking tea.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials. It is suitable for preventing and treating wind-heat cold, sore throat and carbuncle caused by heat toxin. This kind of tea is not only used for treatment, but also has the health-preserving effect of reducing fire if it is often drunk.
3. Double-flowered red fruit drink
Ingredients: honeysuckle 30g, chrysanthemum15g, hawthorn10g, honey 30g.
Practice: soak hawthorn in hot water, add honeysuckle and chrysanthemum, fry in water for 3 minutes, filter, add honey and stir well. Daily 1 dose, taken twice.
Efficacy: pungent and cool, detoxifying and relieving sore throat. Indications: wind-heat cold.
4. Watermelon and tomato juice
Ingredients: watermelon and tomato.
Practice: Take watermelon pulp, remove seeds and squeeze juice with gauze. Blanch the tomatoes with boiling water, peel them and squeeze them with gauze. These two kinds of juice are mixed together to make tea.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing summer heat and removing dampness. Treat common cold in summer with symptoms such as fever, thirst, irritability, red urine, loss of appetite, indigestion, etc.
5. Hangju sugar tea
Ingredients: 30 grams of chrysanthemum sugar and appropriate amount of white sugar.
Practice: put the chrysanthemum in a teapot and soak it in boiling water, adding appropriate amount of sugar.
Efficacy: dispersing lung and relieving cough, clearing triple energizer and reducing fire. It is suitable for patients with wind-heat cold, headache and fever.
6. Yin Hua mint drink
Ingredients: honeysuckle 30g, mint10g, fresh reed rhizome 60g.
Practice: First, add 500 ml of water to honeysuckle and reed rhizome, boil for 15 minutes, then add mint and boil for 3 minutes, filter out and add appropriate amount of sugar, and take it warm 3-4 times a day.
Efficacy: The beverage has strong antipyretic effect and is suitable for people with wind-heat cold, fever, dry throat and thirst.
7. Pueraria lobata Douchi porridge
Ingredients: kudzuvine root powder10g, fried soybean10g, scallion 3 stems (washed), Ophiopogon japonicus10g, and japonica rice 50g.
Practice: Put Radix Puerariae, Fried Douchi and Radix Ophiopogonis into a casserole, add 500 ml of water, cook on fire for about 5 ~ 5 minutes, filter out the residue, add japonica rice into the medicinal juice, and cook together to make porridge. Cut the onion into small pieces, put it in when the porridge is cooked, and stir it to eat.
Efficacy: Pueraria lobata, lobster sauce and scallion in this porridge can relieve exterior symptoms and eliminate pathogenic factors, while Ophiopogon japonicus and japonica rice can nourish yin and stomach, which has the characteristics of dispelling wind, slightly heating and nourishing yin, and is a good product for wind-heat cold.
8, winter melon lotus leaf bean porridge
Ingredients: 500g wax gourd, 30g white lentil, fresh lotus leaf15g.
Practice: Wash lentils, lotus leaves and wax gourd, and cut wax gourd into small pieces. Put lentils and lotus leaves together in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil with strong fire, add wax gourd, then cook with low fire for 1 ~ 2 hours, and season to serve.
Efficacy: It has the effects of clearing away lung heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and dispelling wind-heat and cold.
9. Sweating porridge
Ingredients: 20 g of fermented soybean, 6 g of Schizonepeta tenuifolia, 6 g of Saposhnikovia divaricata, 3 g of Gardenia, 60 g of gypsum, 3 slices of ginger, 2 stems of scallion, and 0/00 g of japonica rice/kloc.
Practice: First, put the above medicines into a casserole, boil them for about 5 ~ 5 minutes, filter the juice to remove residues, then add japonica rice and cook them together to make porridge.
Efficacy: This prescription takes pungent cooling and antipyretic as the main curative effect, and is suitable for severe wind-heat and persistent high fever, headache, anhidrosis, dry throat and thirst, and strong pulse, with obvious curative effect.
10, Huangqi Ginger Jujube Porridge
Materials: Radix Astragali 15g, Fructus Jujubae 15g, and 3 slices of ginger.
Practice: Wash and slice Radix Astragali, wash Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens and Fructus Jujubae, cook with strong fire, then cook with low fire for about 1 hour, and drink soup.
Efficacy: It can stimulate appetite, dispel cold and relieve exterior syndrome, and is a good medicine for treating wind-heat cold.
1 1, mulberry leaf loquat porridge
Materials: Mulberry leaf 18g, loquat leaf 10g, sugarcane 100g, cogongrass rhizome 30g, mint 6g and japonica rice 60g.
Practice: Wash and chop the above medicines, add appropriate amount of water, fry the juice, put it in japonica rice and cook until the rice porridge is sticky, and take it while it is hot. Daily 1 dose for 3 consecutive days.
Efficacy: mulberry leaves, cogongrass rhizome and mint clear away heat and promote fluid production; Loquat leaves can moisten the lungs and relieve cough; Sugarcane and stem rice can produce body fluid and benefit the stomach. It is suitable for patients with lung-stomach heat and wind-heat cold.
After catching a cold, you must pay attention to rest and ensure sleep. If you stay up late, you will be very tired and your cold will only get worse. Drink plenty of water and strictly control your diet. It is recommended to eat less meat and more fruits and vegetables after catching a cold. Sydney, pitaya and carrot have the effect of clearing away heat. Keep the stool unobstructed, but don't use laxatives casually, so as not to attract evil spirits.