You cannot eat longan during a cold. If you have a cold due to wind-cold, you are intolerant of cold, have less sweating, cough, runny nose, nasal congestion, and sometimes fever, or you have a cold due to qi deficiency, you can eat jujube. If you have abdominal pain, diarrhea, heavy head, headache, no sweat, or tired limbs, you should not eat jujube. You can drink Huaishan soup.

Patients in the early stages of a cold should not eat red dates. In the early stages of a cold, the wind-cold or wind-heat evils that invade the human body are at their peak. If jujubes are eaten at this time, their sticky nature will often cause the evil qi to stay, causing the consequences of "keeping the invaders behind closed doors", making it difficult to get rid of the disease evils in the body. , which is not conducive to recovery.

The so-called cold refers to the common name for upper respiratory tract infection, and the upper respiratory tract refers to the general name for acute inflammation from the external nostril to the lower edge of the cricoid cartilage, including the nasal cavity, pharynx, and larynx. The infection here is precisely It is a group of diseases including acute simple rhinitis, acute viral pharyngitis and laryngitis, acute pharyngeal conjunctivitis, acute herpetic angina, and acute pharyngeal tonsillitis. Currently, there is no effective way to treat the virus, so treating colds mainly focuses on relieving symptoms. As for eating, as long as it is not irritating raw or cold foods such as alcohol, chili, garlic, vinegar, seafood, etc., or high-fat foods that are difficult to digest, such as fatty meats, you can eat anything else. Longan is high in sugar, which can easily increase the burden on the digestive tract and cause oxidative stress, so it is best not to eat it when you have a cold.