Coke boiled ginger, a product of the combination of Chinese and western, is popular among the people because ginger is a pungent food, which can sweat and relieve exterior symptoms and dispel wind and cold. Therefore, when encountering wind, rain and cold, drinking a bowl of brown sugar ginger soup, cola ginger soup or scallion soup in time has a good effect on treating colds. However, it should be noted that it is only suitable for wind-cold type colds.
Cold can be divided into wind-cold and wind-heat, and not all of them are suitable for drinking ginger soup to sweat. For the wind-heat cold, the human body has already felt the wind-heat, or the cold evil has turned into heat. If we take ginger warm medicine at this time, it will be like adding fuel to the fire, which will aggravate the internal heat.
So how to distinguish between wind-cold and wind-heat colds when you have a cold? First of all, it depends on the cause. If it is cold, the patient will feel cold, runny nose and pale tongue coating. This type can choose to drink ginger soup; Patients with wind-heat often have fever symptoms, such as sore throat, yellow nose and dry stool. Such patients are advised to use pungent and cool drugs to soak in water, such as chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and isatis root, or take some Chinese patent medicines such as Yinqiao Jiedu granules to treat the symptoms.
In addition, patients with cough caused by wind-cold can also try a simple method to treat cough-moxa leaf fumigation. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Artemisia argyi leaves are warm and belong to spleen and kidney meridians, which can warm and dispel cold pathogens and make lung qi spread, so it can cure cough quickly. The specific method is as follows: 30-50g of Folium Artemisiae Argyi is decocted in boiling water of about1500ml for about15min, the Folium Artemisiae Argyi is fished out, and the decocted liquid medicine is poured into a small footbath. Put your feet on the edge of the basin to be fumigated while it is hot. In order to prevent the medicine from evaporating at once, you can cover your feet with a cloth slightly larger than the footbath. When the water temperature is slightly lower than your feet can bear, you can directly put your feet in the basin for soaking. This method is carried out once a night (preferably before going to bed), each time 15~20 minutes, and can be smoked 3~5 times continuously.