2, should drink more boiled water: people with colds often have a fever and sweat, and the body loses more water. Drinking more water can improve blood circulation, accelerate the excretion of metabolic waste in the body, and make the body temperature distributed in time. Therefore, it is better for cold patients without stomach problems to drink light green tea. Tea has a good diuretic effect, has the effect of sweating and strengthening the stomach, and can also clear the fire.
3, you should eat more fruits and vegetables: vegetables and fruits can promote appetite, help digestion, supplement a lot of vitamins and various trace elements needed by the human body, and supplement the lack of energy caused by cold and loss of appetite. If you have a cold, you can eat more ginger, onion and coriander. If it is a wind-heat cold, eat more rape, amaranth, water spinach and so on. If you catch a cold due to dampness in summer, you should eat more water bamboo, watermelon, wax gourd, loofah and cucumber. When the pathogenic heat is mild, you should eat more tomatoes, lotus roots, oranges, apples, apricots, loquats, sugar cane and water chestnuts.
4. Improper taboos: Like drugs, food has the attributes of "four qi" and "five flavors", and different foods should be selected for different types of colds. If you eat casually, improper diet is not only bad for colds, but also makes them difficult to treat. For example, cold fruits and cold drinks should not be eaten because of wind and cold, which will contract mucous membranes and blood vessels and aggravate symptoms such as stuffy nose and sore throat. During the fever period of wind-heat cold, avoid greasy food, meat and sweets. Because these foods hinder the transportation of the spleen and stomach, cough and expectoration are all caused by phlegm dampness, which is not good for people who have a cold and spleen and stomach weakness. So big fish and big meat, glutinous rice sweets, fried cakes and so on. Should not be taken; In the recovery period of wind-heat cold, it is not advisable to eat spicy and hot foods such as pepper, dog meat and mutton, so as not to hurt the body fluid and help the fire to produce phlegm. Summer-wet and cold, in addition to avoiding fat, but also avoiding salty foods such as pickles and salted fish. Because too salty and wet sputum stimulates the trachea and causes cough, which is not conducive to the recovery of a cold.
5, avoid drinking and strong tea: wine, especially high-alcohol liquor, can make the whole body blood vessels dilate, excite the brain center, affect sleep, cause headaches, reduce disease resistance, and make the condition worse, so avoid drinking alcohol when catching a cold. Drinking strong tea not only affects the rest and sleep of patients with cold, but also some components in tea can resist, reduce or interfere with the efficacy of antipyretic and analgesic drugs. In addition, the acidic or alkaloid components of some Chinese patent medicines for treating colds are easy to precipitate with tannic acid in tea, which makes the drugs deteriorate and fail. Therefore, during the treatment of cold, it is best not to drink strong tea, let alone send potions with strong tea.