If you have a cough and sore throat, try to eat foods with a neutral nature at this time. Foods with cool and warm properties will have an impact on it. Vegetables with a neutral nature include yams, radish (slightly cool), carrots, cabbage, and chrysanthemum. (slightly cooled), kohlrabi, green vegetables, hen head, tempeh, cowpea, potato, taro, Jerusalem artichoke, jellyfish, black fungus (slightly cooled), shiitake mushroom, oyster mushroom, hericium, gourd.