Brown sugar ginger soup

Gingerol and gingerol in ginger can sweat and drive away accumulated heat in the body, especially ginger with less water, which can better promote blood circulation. Adding brown sugar can supplement calories. But ginger soup is only suitable for people with exogenous cold, not suitable for drinking. Moreover, ginger can promote blood circulation. If there is inflammation or bleeding, don't eat it.

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Some people think that you should eat more fruits during a cold. Liu Jianhui, a doctor at Tai 'an Hospital in Taiwan Province Province, said that it depends on personal circumstances. Eating more fruits can supplement vitamin C, but whether vitamin C can treat or prevent colds is still controversial.

Moreover, fruit juice or fruit is mostly cold, which may cause bronchial contraction and aggravate cough. Except for fever, it is not suitable for eating during a cold. In particular, fruits with more water, such as watermelons and pears, are cooler. If you cough, have a runny nose, have loose bowels, and your hands and feet are cold, it is easier to make your condition worse.

Eating fruits and vegetables is an alkaline food, which is not conducive to the reproduction of microorganisms such as viruses. Therefore, eating more foods rich in calcium, zinc and vitamins has a certain inhibitory effect on the virus.

People all know that we should eat easily digestible liquid diet, such as vegetable soup, gruel, egg soup, custard, milk and so on. And they also know that they should eat more foods rich in vitamin C and vitamin E, but what people don't know is that red foods are rich in carotene, such as tomatoes, apples, grapes, dates and strawberries, which are also very helpful for the recovery of colds.

When choosing different medicines and foods, it is best to ask doctors to diagnose or judge what kind of cold they are suffering from: wind-cold colds are characterized by fever, headache, itchy throat, general malaise, stuffy nose, runny nose, cough, thin and white sputum and so on. Wind-heat cold is characterized by severe fever, swelling and pain in the head, sore throat, thirst, cough and expectoration. Symptoms of exterior-interior syndrome include high fever, headache, dizziness, limb pain, sore throat and dry stool. The symptoms of gastrointestinal cold include fever, nausea, headache, weakness of limbs and so on.

Dietotherapy for colds: You should eat more sweaty and cold-dispelling foods, such as pepper, onion, ginger, garlic, tofu, fresh ginger and brown sugar water. Some studies believe that chicken soup can help people get rid of the flu, and drinking chicken soup can help to expel the virus. Chicken soup contains a variety of amino acids needed by the human body, which can effectively enhance the body's resistance. Drinking chicken soup when you have a cold is suitable for people who are very weak, while people who are very strong and obese should not eat chicken soup with warming and nourishing properties, otherwise it may aggravate the condition.

Dietotherapy for wind-heat cold: eat more foods that help dispel wind and clear heat, such as mung beans, radishes, Chinese cabbage, cabbage roots, mint and tea. You can cook porridge with fresh pear juice and rice while it is hot. During a cold, you should try to eat less or not to eat high-fat, high-protein and spicy food, and don't drink alcoholic drinks, otherwise it will easily lead to the aggravation of your illness. Pear is a cold food in traditional Chinese medicine, which is suitable for cough, chest pain, excessive phlegm and other symptoms caused by wind-heat cold.

Dietotherapy with two senses: the diet should be light and not greasy, which not only meets the nutritional needs, but also increases the appetite. For example, eat more millet porridge and red bean porridge. To ensure water supply, you can drink more acidic juice, such as hawthorn juice, kiwi fruit juice, jujube juice, etc., to increase your appetite. Sour foods such as vinegar, lemon juice and dried plums also have obvious appetite stimulating effects.

Gastrointestinal cold diet: chrysanthemum, Longjing tea, mung bean and brown sugar instead of tea. At the same time, eating more vegetables and fruits rich in calcium, zinc and vitamins, such as radish, pear, kiwi fruit and various mushrooms, can alleviate cold symptoms.

Drink plenty of boiled water after catching a cold, because enough water can dilute the toxins in the blood and accelerate the excretion of metabolites, thus alleviating cold symptoms and shortening the course of disease.

What are the taboos for cold patients?

The so-called taboo refers to the dietary taboo of patients when they are sick. As we all know, food, like medicine, is biased, such as glutinous rice, hard liquor, hot wine and so on. Therefore, there are dietary taboos, including the way and method of diet, the quality and quantity of food, the interaction between diets, the relationship between diet and physique or disease, and the incompatibility between diet and drugs. The dietary taboos of patients with diseases focus on the relationship between diet and disease, and the incompatibility between diet and drugs.

What are the taboos for catching a cold? Let's talk about eating in moderation first. After a cold, people often lose their appetite, especially when they have a fever. Modern medicine believes that various digestive enzymes are destroyed or have low activity when fever occurs, resulting in patients not wanting to eat. If you simply eat more, you will often have indigestion such as abdominal distension, which will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, which is not conducive to the body's concentration to resist external evils, and may also delay the recovery of colds and even aggravate the condition. Therefore, it is better for cold patients to eat less.

How to control the degree of eating less should be based on ensuring the whole body energy supply. This is a problem with the quality of diet. People with colds advocate eating light and digestible foods, such as rice porridge and noodles, and avoiding fried and greasy foods. Some people even put forward "fasting therapy", that is, stop eating after a cold and only drink soup, which sometimes gets unexpected results. Of course, this method is not suitable for everyone, and patients with strong physique and mild cold can try it. Please don't forget to have enough energy reserves, otherwise it will be counterproductive.

Finally, focus on what foods you should avoid when you have a cold. This aspect is related to taking medicine, that is, the taboo after taking medicine. On the other hand, we should pay attention to the relationship with the condition. In the early stage of a cold, if you feel that it is caused by cold, you are taking medicine to relieve the cold, and you should avoid eating cold and greasy; If it is the pathogenic wind and cold that I felt in the early stage, I should also avoid eating cold food. Once the evil heat persists, you will be thirsty, irritable and constipated. At this time, you need fruit help. You can often take pear juice, orange juice, watermelon, rice soup and mung bean soup.

The above are mainly problems between some principles. Specifically, during a cold, avoid eating duck, pork, mutton, dog meat, turtles, clams, vinegar, persimmons and other foods. 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 warm at the top and warm at the bottom, which has the disadvantage of converging evil; Dog meat is also warm and easy to help heat get angry, so it is taboo for heat syndrome; Soft-shelled turtle tastes sweet and greasy, which has the disadvantage of converging evil; Mussel, also known as mussel, is cold in nature and has the function of nourishing yin and cooling, and eating too much hinders the evacuation of evil spirits; Vinegar is sour and astringent, and it is easy to stagnate after eating; Persimmons are cold, astringent and stagnant, and eating more is easy to accumulate evil. Therefore, the above foods are all cold taboos. Eating by mistake or eating too much is often not conducive to the evacuation of exogenous pathogens, and sometimes it even aggravates the condition, which needs attention.