Watermelon is cold and sweet, and has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, relieving annoyance and quenching thirst, and facilitating urination. It is one of the fruits with the highest consumption rate in summer. When the cold gets worse, there will be fever symptoms such as high fever, thirst, sore throat and yellow urine. Eating watermelon properly can relieve related symptoms and help to recover from a cold.

If you don't eat or drink after you have a high fever and sweat a lot, it is easy to cause electrolyte disorder. It is best to eat watermelon or drink freshly squeezed watermelon juice first, which will help reduce fever, replenish body fluids, reduce swelling and induce diuresis. In hot summer, when children have a fever, boiling porridge with watermelon peel or boiling water with wax gourd and barley can relieve summer heat, promote fluid production and induce diuresis.

2. Pierce

Pears are cool and sweet, and can produce fluid, clear away heat and resolve phlegm. It can obviously relieve wind-heat cold, fever, dry mouth, cough, expectoration and other symptoms. Pears contain more carbohydrates and vitamins, which are easily absorbed by the human body, stimulate appetite and protect the liver.

For patients with wind-heat cold, you can use a raw pear, wash it and cut it into pieces, and add rock sugar to stew water for oral administration, which will have a good effect. Pear itself has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, but because it is a cool fruit, it has no effect on cough caused by the first cold, and may even aggravate the cough; However, we can change the properties of pears by stewing, and make them become cough medicine.

3. horseshoe

Eleocharis tuberosa is a cold food, which has the effects of clearing away heat, purging fire, inducing diuresis, relaxing bowels, cooling blood and detoxicating, clearing away heat, promoting fluid production and supplementing nutrition, and is especially suitable for patients with early fever. As far as its nutrition is concerned, water chestnut is rich in carbohydrates, but its calories are not very high. At the same time, it is rich in phosphorus and antibacterial component water chestnut, which is not only beneficial to the development of bones and teeth, but also promotes the metabolism of sugar, fat and protein in the body, and has inhibitory effect on bacteria such as Escherichia coli.

Although it is crisp and delicious to eat raw, it is best to wash and cook it. The boiled water chestnut is sweeter and tastes better. It is more effective to eat water chestnut when you have a fever, and it is compatible with pear, lotus root, reed root and other juices, but it is only an auxiliary method of diet therapy. When the high fever persists or the condition worsens, you should seek medical advice as soon as possible.