It is very useful to drink pear water when you have a cold. Pear is a cold fruit, which has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials and purging fire. If it is gum swelling and pain caused by a cold, or sore throat and tonsillitis, such symptoms can be alleviated by drinking pear water. In the process of drinking pear water, you can also add some rock sugar or Fritillaria to boil water, which can relieve cough and resolve phlegm.

If you have a cold, chills, runny nose and cough, you can drink some brown sugar in moderation to clear away heat and relieve runny nose and fever.

Ingredients for treating cold

1, ginger

Ginger is the most effective one for cold patients. Ginger itself belongs to the spicy kind. Boiling and drinking ginger with boiling water can help remove the cold in the body.

2, scallion

Green onions have a certain sweating function, and people who have a cold can recover just after eating green onions, which can reduce and prevent colds. Suitable for people with wind-cold type cold.

3. Pepper

Pepper has the effect of dispelling cold, which can dispel the cold of cold patients, thus achieving a healthy state. Boiling soup with pepper and ginger can also treat cold, especially for patients with indigestion.

4. coriander

Chinese medicine believes that coriander is pungent and warm, enters the lung and spleen meridians, and has the functions of sweating and rash, digestion and qi reduction. Suitable for colds, children's measles or rubella, indigestion, etc. The Book of Food Classics says that it "regulates food and lowers qi". Herbal dietotherapy states "Benefiting five internal organs, nourishing tendons and veins, treating valley, eating and treating intestinal wind".

Coriander, fresh onion and ginger. Wash the three herbs, put them into a pot, add clean water and appropriate amount of clean water, and take them frequently, daily 1 dose, for 2 ~ 3 days. It can relieve exterior syndrome by sweating, and is suitable for common cold, stuffy nose and runny nose.

Step 5: garlic

Garlic is warm and pungent, and has the function of preventing and treating colds, which is applicable to both wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds.

If you have a cold, you can use garlic, onion and ginger to sweat. Eating garlic in summer can relieve the heat, so anyone with a cold can eat it.

6.perilla frutescens

Perilla is warm and pungent, and has the functions of sweating, dispelling cold and reducing fever. Suitable for people with cold and cold. If people with qi deficiency catch a cold, it is advisable to cook porridge with perilla leaves and rice. Because perilla contains the unique aroma of perilla acetaldehyde, that is, perilla oil essence, which is volatile, it is necessary to add perilla leaves 10g to porridge when it is cooked, and it should not be cooked for a long time.

For patients with mild symptoms of wind-cold common cold, such as chills, stuffy nose and throat discomfort, it is better to take perilla leaf decoction alone. However, due to the relatively mild sweating effect of perilla leaves, patients with obvious symptoms of wind-cold and cold need to be combined with ginger, Pogostemon and other exterior-relieving drugs.