A useful' cold', commonly known as a cold. According to different seasons or symptoms, Chinese medicine is usually divided into two types: wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold. Wind-cold colds are characterized by fever, chills, headache, general pain, clear nasal congestion, cough with white phlegm and thin white fur. People with wind-heat cold are not afraid of cold, have headache and sore throat, cough up yellow thick pus and phlegm, and have yellowish tongue coating. As for the types of cold due to qi deficiency, cold due to yin deficiency, cold due to yang deficiency, cold due to rheumatism and cold due to damp heat.

The principle of avoiding colds:

Generally speaking, a cold is the invasion of foreign pathogens. Therefore, in principle, it is advisable to eat a light and soft diet or food at the beginning of a cold, and avoid eating greasy, sticky, sour and nourishing food to prevent exogenous pathogens from being driven out. Those who catch a cold due to wind and cold should eat products that are pungent and warm, sweating and dispelling cold, and avoid eating raw and cold food; People with wind-heat colds should eat more spicy and cold foods to dispel wind, clear heat and relieve sore throat, and avoid spicy and hot items.

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.

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