What food is good for coughing and catching a cold?
People who catch a cold due to wind and cold should eat warm or flat food, such as pepper, pepper, cinnamon, rice porridge, Amomum villosum, kumquat, lemon, bergamot, onion, pumpkin, green vegetables, lentils, adzuki beans, soybean sprouts, cowpea, apricot, peach, cherry and hawthorn. People with wind-heat and cold should eat more cold things, such as mung beans, apples, persimmon frost, loquat, oranges, kiwi fruit, strawberries, Siraitia grosvenorii, figs, celery, water dropwort, day lily, lettuce, wolfberry head, tofu, gluten, wax gourd, sweet potato and so on. During the cold period, no matter whether it is cold or wind-heat, you should avoid all nourishing, greasy and sour foods, such as pork, duck, chicken, mutton gizzard, glutinous rice, astragalus, Polygonatum sibiricum, Ophiopogon japonicus, ginseng, placenta, donkey-hide gelatin, various marine fish, shrimp, crab, longan, pomegranate, dark plum and various sticky sweets. People who catch cold due to wind-cold should also avoid eating the above-mentioned cold foods, such as persimmon, dried persimmon, tofu, mung bean sprouts, snail, mussel, clam, raw radish, raw lotus root, raw sweet potato, raw melon, raw pear, raw water chestnut, Siraitia grosvenorii, Leng Cha, chrysanthemum brain, mint and honeysuckle. People with wind-heat colds should also avoid ginger, pepper, cinnamon, fennel, clove, Amomum villosum, white wine, Cordyceps sinensis and so on.