Ginger is a daily spice, and can be used in medicine. It is a warm and pungent medicine that can sweat away the cold and dispel the wind, and it is suitable for mild cases of wind-cold colds. If the wind cold in winter, drink a bowl of hot ginger soup, or with brown sugar boiled into ginger water, so that the patient slightly sweating, really have the effect of cold evil. Chinese medicine believes that the pungent and warm things have dispersal properties, when the external evil and muscle surface, pungent distribution of sweat, the surface of the evil is easy to sweat and out, the disease will also be solved.
For wind-heat colds, the human body has already felt the wind heat, or cold evil into the heat, if this time to take ginger warming medicine, as on fire, will aggravate the internal heat.
Some people have a hot body, or cold, the body is very easy to heat, once the throat inflammation, swelling and pain, nasal mucus yellow thick, belong to the phenomenon of inflammation of the wind-heat cold, is not suitable for warm ginger soup, so as not to inflammation symptoms more serious.
Wind and heat colds can generally choose the mulberry chrysanthemum cold punch or find a Chinese medicine practitioner to identify the prescription, wind and cold cold colds can only ginger, brown sugar boiled water to take.
So how do you distinguish between a wind-cold cold or a wind-hot cold? From the point of view of the symptoms, wind-heat cold, in addition to fever, the general fear of cold and wind is not obvious, headache, thirst, coughing, nasal congestion and turbid flow, dry stools, yellow urine, tongue thin yellow or thick yellow, children are also common tonsil red or pharyngeal congestion. The wind-cold cold is afraid of the wind and cold, no sweat, or even body aches, cough, sputum sparse color white, tongue coating thin white and other symptoms.
What is the best thing to eat for a cold?
Wind-heat type cold people should eat cold items, such as mung beans, apples, persimmon cream, quartz, citrus, oranges, kiwi, strawberries, figs, dry celery, water celery, water spinach, spinach, lettuce, lettuce, Chinese wolfberries, tofu, gluten, winter melon, gourd, groundnuts, squash, Fatty sea, marjoram, vegetable gourd, mung bean sprouts, persimmons, bananas, watermelon, bitter melon, sugar cane, tomatoes, etc.
Whenever you have a cold, whether it's a cold or a hot cold, avoid eating all the nourishing, oily, acidic foods, such as pork, duck, chicken, lamb, glutinous rice, astragalus, yellow essence, maitake, ginseng, placenta, gelatin, all kinds of fish, shrimp, crab, longan meat, pomegranate, umeboshi, and all kinds of sticky dessert food.
People with wind-heat colds should also avoid eating ginger, pepper, cinnamon, fennel, cloves, sand nuts, white wine, cordyceps and so on.
The following is a small introduction for you to the wind-heat cold diet:
1, watermelon and tomato juice: watermelon, tomatoes, each appropriate amount. Watermelon take the flesh, remove the seeds, with gauze twisted squeeze juice. Tomatoes first with boiling water, peeled off the skin, also with gauze squeezed juice. The two juices combined, drink tea. Clearing heat and removing toxins, eliminating heat and dampness. Treatment of summer colds, symptoms of fever, thirst, irritability, red hot urine, poor appetite, indigestion and so on.
2, fever lemonade: lemon juice, add sugar or honey, and then add warm water into. Drink 500 to 1,000cc a day when you have a cold, the runny nose is reduced and the cold disperses quickly, especially when you have just had a cold, and you can even get rid of it without medicine.
3, mulberry leaves loquat porridge: mulberry leaves 18 grams, loquat leaves 10 grams of sugar cane 100 grams, 6 grams of peppermint, washed and chopped, add the right amount of water, decoction, add 60 grams of rice to cook until the porridge is thick, and consume it while it is hot.
4, lily pear rock sugar water: fresh lily 5 to 6 pieces, pear 14, rock sugar 1 small. Wash fresh lily and snow pear. Lily tear into small slices, Snow Pear peeled, core cut into small slices, and with the peeled Snow Pear together in a pot with the right amount of water. Boil over high heat, remove the foam, then reduce the heat to low and cook for about 15 minutes, until the lily and pear slices are cooked, remove the pear skin. Then add 1 small rock sugar and cook until completely melted.
Can you drink ginger soup with wind fever and cold? You have to remember the above answer oh, cold can not eat recklessly!