Can eating spicy food at the beginning of a cold solve the cold problem? The cold is really spicy. Is it really ok?
Can a cold eat spicy food?
Some people like to make themselves sweat with Chili peppers at the beginning of a cold, because eating spicy food is just like drinking hot water or tea. After sweating, the symptoms will be relatively relieved. But there are two aspects to remind you:
First, only when you have a cold and feel cold all over, sweating with the method of "mala Tang" is effective. Like summer colds, most of them are hot colds, and they often feel thirsty and easily get angry. On the contrary, they are similar to heatstroke, and such a cold should not be forced to sweat.
Second, the common cold will be accompanied by cough. Don't eat Chili until cough symptoms appear. If you eat spicy food, it will aggravate your situation.
Pepper is rich in nutrition and high in vitamin C. 100g pepper contains vitamin Cl05 mg, which is among the best in vegetables. Oral administration of a little pepper decoction can cure poor appetite, abdominal distension and abdominal pain caused by a cold. Cooking soup with pepper and ginger can also treat cold and cold.
But patients with cold and fever should not eat spicy food. Because the body temperature rises, the metabolism in the body is vigorous. In this case, eating warm and spicy food such as ginger, garlic and pepper will help heat and aggravate the condition, which is not conducive to fever reduction and early recovery.
A cold with cough symptoms should not be spicy. Spicy foods such as pepper and mustard help fire and produce phlegm, which makes phlegm sticky and difficult to cough up, aggravating headache and stuffy nose.
If you suffer from wind-heat cold, sore throat, dry throat, red eyes and stuffy nose, yellow urine, dry stool, fever and cough, it is difficult to swallow even if you eat liquid. At this time, if you still eat Chili, it will violate the purpose of "eating lightly when you are sick" in Chinese medicine, which is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire and will definitely aggravate your condition.
Don't touch 10 kinds of food when you have a cold.
There are many foods that you can't eat when you have a cold. The following small series introduces you.
1 sweet
Whether it is high-sugar fruit or dessert, you should fast during a cold. Sweet food will not only increase the viscosity of phlegm, increase the amount of phlegm, but also lead to abdominal distension and suppress appetite. High-sugar fruits include mango, grape, litchi, sugarcane, pineapple and red dates.
2, high-salt food
Reducing salt intake can increase the content of lysozyme in saliva, protect the epithelial cells of mouth and throat, and make them secrete more immunoglobulin and interferon to deal with cold virus. During a cold, the daily salt intake can be controlled within 5 grams.
3, crude fiber food
During a cold, people's stomach power is weak, so try to avoid eating crude fiber foods such as celery, leeks and chrysanthemums during this time, otherwise it will increase the burden on the stomach.
4. Spicy food
Spicy foods such as pepper and mustard help fire and produce phlegm, which makes phlegm sticky and difficult to cough up, aggravating headache and stuffy nose.
5, strong tea, strong coffee
Strong tea and strong coffee can cause gastrointestinal discomfort and sometimes gastroesophageal reflux.
6, barbecue fried products
Barbecue and fried food, such as fried potatoes, fried pork chops, barbecue, etc. Although delicious, it is not easy to digest and delay recovery, which is not conducive to the early recovery of the disease.
7. Avoid spicy condiments
Curry powder, pepper powder and fresh and spicy powder all have strong irritation, which is not good for respiratory mucosa, making it dry and twitching, causing symptoms such as stuffy nose and choking cough, and aggravating patients' symptoms. Therefore, patients with colds should not eat.
8. Persimmons
Persimmon itself is cold and astringent, which has the function of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, but it is not suitable for cold and cold groups. Eating more is easy to restrain evil spirits, delay the recovery of cold and aggravate symptoms.
9. Duck and mutton
Because cold is an exogenous disease, the treatment should be mainly evacuation. However, duck meat is cold, rich in honey and stagnant, easy to slip the intestines and gather evil spirits, and pork is fat and greasy, which helps to dry dampness and phlegm, dispel wind and astringe dampness; Mutton is warm and helps heat, but it is often warmer in the middle and warmer in the lower part, which has the disadvantage of converging evil.
10, coriander
Chinese medicine believes that coriander has the function of warming the middle warmer and strengthening the stomach. However, people who are prone to colds should avoid eating coriander, because such people often have qi deficiency, and eating coriander will lead to more frequent colds.
Conclusion: catching a cold is something that happens to all of us. The above small series also introduces the dietary taboos of colds, so I don't know if colds can be spicy? In addition, don't eat these 10 foods when you have a cold. Remember, otherwise it will aggravate your cold!