You can eat chicken when you have a cold, but you can't eat chicken when you have a cold. Colds are generally divided into wind-cold and wind-heat. Cold-cold should drink boiled water, ginger soup or hot chicken soup. Wind-heat type colds are mostly manifested as sore throat and yellow phlegm, so this kind of patients are not suitable for drinking chicken soup, because chicken is a kind of warm tonic. Eating it when you have a cold due to wind-heat will produce internal heat, aggravate the condition and make it difficult to cure.
2. Why can I drink chicken soup when I have a cold?
Drinking hot chicken soup is helpful for women with cold and cold to recover from cold. Because when you catch a cold due to cold, the cold in your body is very heavy. With the help of the warming effect of chicken, it is beneficial to dispel cold. At this time, the maternal body is relatively weak, so we should pay attention to the supplement of high-quality protein. Chicken contains a variety of essential amino acids, and its protein is easy to digest and absorb, which can enhance the body's resistance to cold virus.
3, wind and heat colds should not drink chicken soup.
Warm foods, such as chicken soup, should not be eaten for wind-heat colds. Because the maternal internal heat of wind-heat cold is heavier, plus nourishing chicken soup, it will add fuel to the fire and aggravate the condition. Moreover, chicken soup is a food that supplements deficiency and helps healthy qi. Drinking chicken soup when you have a cold is only suitable for those who suffer from exogenous cold.
4, chicken soup is not suitable for heat.
People with cold and fever, excessive internal fire, excessive phlegm and dampness, obesity, heat-toxic furuncle, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cholecystitis and gallstones should not eat chicken; Chicken is warm, helps fire, and people with hyperactivity of liver yang, oral erosion, skin furuncle and constipation should not eat chicken; People who have a cold with headache, fatigue and fever should avoid eating chicken and chicken soup.
5. Precautions for drinking chicken soup in the next month
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that spicy and hot foods such as chicken soup, ginger, brown sugar, pepper, cinnamon, fennel, clove, Amomum villosum, white wine, Cordyceps sinensis, etc. are not suitable for eating when you catch a cold due to wind-heat in confinement. When you have a cold, you should not eat cold food such as duck, rabbit, crab, raw water chestnut, raw lotus root, celery and watermelon. Regardless of wind-cold or wind-heat colds, we should avoid eating high-fat and greasy foods, such as mutton hotpot, braised pork ribs, cookies and potato chips.