Step 1: Determine the nature of the cold. Chinese medicine believes that colds can be divided into two types: cold and heat. The symptoms of colds are different, the nature is different, and the treatment methods are different. Then how to judge the nature of a cold? First of all, if your nose is clear when you have a cold, it is a cold, which is caused by the cold in your body. If you have a thick yellow nose, it is a hot cold. Secondly, you can also look at the tongue coating. If the tongue coating is white and covers the tongue like snow, it also means a cold. If the tongue coating is yellow, it is a hot cold. In addition, if the human body has a fever and its hands and feet are still cold, it is also a cold. If it has a fever during the day and at night, it is probably a cold. Step 2: You don't have to rush to the hospital or take medicine if you have a cold. If you do as I say, you may save a lot of medical expenses. After judging the nature of the cold, you can prescribe the right medicine. Western medicine commonly uses drugs to suppress viruses, while Chinese medicine expels pathogens through food and methods. Treatment of heat-induced cold: since the cold is hot, it means that there is internal heat in the body, and eating food that clears away heat and detoxifies can cure it. Such as radix isatidis, wax gourd, green tea, bamboo leaves, etc. Western medicine is the most effective treatment for cold. If it is a hot cold, be sure to drink more boiled water and go to the toilet to let the virus out of the body as soon as possible. Fever caused by heat sensation: If you have a fever, there are some ways to quickly reduce it, such as sticking four needles, moving cans, scraping, and soaking your feet with mugwort leaves. , you can quickly get rid of summer heat. Treatment of colds: Most of the colds we get are colds. Sneezing, runny nose, headache, dizziness, whole body pain and chills are all symptoms of a cold. A cold can be cured as long as it is treated immediately: 1. Get rid of the virus quickly: after catching a cold, drink more boiled water, drink a few cups a day, or even more, and go to the toilet as much as possible, so that you can get rid of the virus in your body quickly and reduce the harm to your body. 2, quickly discharge cold: cold is the main cause of colds, so it is necessary to discharge cold as soon as possible. Onion, ginger and garlic in food have a good effect of removing cold and dampness. When I have a cold, I like boiled ginger and brown sugar water very much. Usually 3 slices of ginger and half a spoonful of brown sugar boiled water, I drink it about 3 times a day. After drinking ginger and brown sugar water, I must drink more boiled water, or I will have a sore throat. If a cold is accompanied by cough, you can add 7 cloves of garlic to ginger brown sugar and cook it together. If you have a fever, you can add an onion to the ginger brown sugar and boil it. In addition, garlic water also plays a great role in treating nasal congestion. After using food to drive away the cold, you can also use mugwort leaves to soak your feet to drive away the cold. Choose a handful of mugwort leaves, or 1/4 and mugwort sticks to soak in boiling water, and then add warm water to soak your feet. You must choose to soak your feet in a bucket. Put some warm water at first, and then add warm water slowly. When you soak your feet, you can pat your shoulders, massage your scalp and promote blood circulation. You can also drink ginger and brown sugar water while soaking to warm your body as soon as possible. It is best to soak your feet and sweat. If you don't sweat, you are too cold and wet. Here, by the way, the role of mugwort in soaking feet. Moxibustion has the functions of dispelling cold, eliminating dampness and purging fire, so it can be used for both cold and hot colds. In addition, if you get angry and have an oral ulcer, you can cure it by soaking your feet with mugwort leaves for about 2 days (I have tried it and it is really effective). 3, to ensure adequate sleep and rest: If you have a cold, you must rest more, so as to ensure that your body has more energy to restore health. 4. Diet during a cold: You must pay attention to the diet during a cold. If the diet is incorrect, it is likely to waste your time. Since a cold is caused by cold, a natural diet cannot be cold. Three meals a day must only eat foods that are flat, such as green vegetables, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, potatoes, leeks, chicken, pork and so on. We can't eat cold food. Maybe many people don't know what cold food is, so I tell you, except those dishes I mentioned above, 98% of the dishes should be cold, such as tomatoes, wax gourd, Flammulina velutipes, cucumbers, lotus roots and bitter gourd, which are familiar to everyone. You can't eat fruit during a cold because most fruits are cold. Step 3: Care for the second day after a cold After the above treatment, your cold may be much better the next day, but you still can't relax. Therefore, nursing after catching a cold is very important. If you don't take good care of yourself, your cold may leave some symptoms, and then it will take a few days to be completely cured. If you still have some cold symptoms the next day, drink ginger and brown sugar water again to consolidate the curative effect, and drink more boiled water at the same time. The body will be weak after cold conditioning, but the diet must be clear, fish and shrimp that are easy to get angry should be eaten less, and some foods that tonify qi (such as yam) should not be eaten, because eating these foods is easy to cause fever. The diet on the second day after a cold should be carried out according to the diet during the cold. Whether it is cold or hot, you should eat food with a flat nature, so as to ensure that the cold does not recur. I have seldom caught a cold since I started health care. Once I catch a cold, I will take these measures to treat it. Generally, it takes about 2 days for a cold to be cured, and only 1 day for a quick cure. When I came home during the Spring Festival, my mother caught a bad cold. I also adopted this method. Results My mother's haha cold was completely cured in 2 days, and her cough caused by cold was cured 1 day. Let's have a try. Supplement: To treat cough after a cold: put 7 cloves of garlic+1 rock sugar into a bowl, steam it in water for 20 minutes, and then drink the garlic water after steaming. 2-3 times a day, the effect is very significant. Of course, if the cough is caused by heat, you can't use this method.