Cold, fever, cough, dietary taboos

If you have a cold, fever or cough, you should eat some light and digestible food, and avoid eating greasy, sweet or nourishing indigestible food.

The most suitable dishes are white radish, perilla, onion, ginger and garlic, light soup and porridge, lean meat or steamed chicken or fish.

When you have a cold, fever and cough, most fruits can still be eaten, such as apples, bananas, pears, grapes and mangoes. Pears can be boiled and drunk, or they can be steamed with peppers to eat pears and drink soup. Pear has the function of clearing away heat and reducing fire, and drinking pear water also has the function of reducing fire for fever and cold. But it is not recommended that you eat more oranges, because eating too many oranges will lead to excessive internal heat, which is not conducive to the temperature drop of fever-type colds.

What can't you eat with a cold:

First of all, during a cold, whether it is a cold or a wind-heat cold, we should avoid eating all nourishing, greasy and sour foods. Such as pork, duck, chicken, mutton, glutinous rice, astragalus root, Ophiopogon japonicus, ginseng, placenta, donkey-hide gelatin, various marine fish, shrimp, crab, longan, pomegranate, dark plum and various sticky dessert foods.

Secondly, people with colds should also avoid eating raw and cold food. Such as persimmon, bean curd, mung bean sprouts, snail, mussel meat, raw radish, raw lotus root, raw sweet potato, raw melon, raw pear, cold water chestnut, Siraitia grosvenorii, Leng Cha, chrysanthemum brain, mint, honeysuckle, white chrysanthemum, boat-fruited Sterculia, etc.