Wind-heat cold diet therapy
Wind-heat cold is caused by pathogenic wind-heat invading the exterior and lung qi disharmony. The symptoms are fever, sweating, sore throat, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, stuffy nose and yellow nose, thin white fur and yellowish fur. Wind-heat cold is more common in summer and autumn, which is caused by exogenous wind-heat. Taking ginger and garlic has no effect on wind-heat cold, because ginger and scallion are pungent and warm foods, which can perspire and relieve exterior syndrome, regulate lung ventilation, but will encourage the heat of wind-heat cold and make the situation develop in a bad direction.
1, mulberry leaf mint drink
Ingredients: 5 grams of mulberry leaves, 5 grams of chrysanthemum, 3 grams of mint and 30 grams of bitter bamboo leaves.
Practice: Wash the medicinal water, put it in a teapot, and soak it in boiling water for ten minutes, and drink it at any time.
Efficacy: This product not only has pungent and cool effects on wind-heat cold, but also can be used as a preventive tea.
2, three scented teas
Materials: honeysuckle15g, chrysanthemum10g, jasmine 3g.
Practice: put honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and jasmine in a teacup, brew with boiling water, and soak for 10~ 15 minutes, and drink it instead of tea.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials. It is suitable for preventing and treating wind-heat cold, sore throat and carbuncle caused by heat toxin. This tea is not only used for treatment, but also has the health-preserving effect of reducing fire if it is often taken.
3, double flower red fruit drink
Ingredients: honeysuckle 30g, chrysanthemum15g, hawthorn10g, honey 30g.
Practice: soak hawthorn in hot water, add honeysuckle and chrysanthemum, fry in water for 3 minutes, filter, add honey and stir well. Daily 1 dose, taken twice.
Efficacy: pungent and cool, detoxifying and relieving sore throat. Indications: wind-heat cold.
4. Watermelon tomato juice
Ingredients: watermelon and tomato.
Practice: take the pulp of watermelon, remove the seeds and squeeze the juice with gauze. Tomatoes are scalded with boiling water, peeled and squeezed with gauze. The two juices are combined and used for tea.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispelling summer heat and eliminating dampness. Treat common cold in summer with symptoms such as fever, thirst, irritability, red-hot urine, poor appetite and indigestion.
5. Hangju Sugar Tea
Ingredients: 30 grams of chrysanthemum sugar, appropriate amount of sugar.
Practice: put Hangzhou chrysanthemum in the teapot and soak it in boiling water, and add appropriate amount of sugar.
Efficacy: unblocking lung qi, relieving cough, clearing triple energizer and depressing fire. It is suitable for patients with wind-heat cold, headache and fever.
6, yinhua mint drink
Ingredients: honeysuckle 30g, mint10g, fresh reed rhizome 60g.
Practice: First add 500 ml of water to Flos Lonicerae and Rhizoma Phragmitis, and boil for 15 minutes, then add mint and boil for 3 minutes, filter out and add appropriate amount of sugar, and take it warm for 3-4 times a day.
Efficacy: This drink has a strong antipyretic effect and is suitable for people with wind-heat cold, fever, dry throat and thirst.
7. Pueraria lobata Douchi porridge
Materials: pueraria lobata10g, fermented soybean10g, scallion 3 stems (washed), Ophiopogon japonicus10g, and japonica rice 50g.
Practice: Put Pueraria lobata, Semen Sojae Preparata and Radix Ophiopogonis into a casserole, add 500ml of water, boil for about 5 ~ on the fire, filter off the residue, add japonica rice into the medicinal juice, and cook together to make porridge. Cut the scallion into short sections, put in the porridge when it is ready, stir and serve.
Efficacy: Radix Puerariae, Douchi and Bulbus Allii Fistulosi in this porridge can relieve exterior symptoms and eliminate pathogenic factors, while Radix Ophiopogonis and japonica rice can nourish yin and stomach, which has the characteristics of soothing wind, mild fever and nourishing yin, and is a good food for wind-heat cold.
8, winter melon lotus leaf bean porridge
Ingredients: 500g wax gourd, 30g white lentil, fresh lotus leaf15g.
Practice: Wash lentils, lotus leaves and wax gourd, and cut the wax gourd into small pieces. Put lentils and lotus leaves together in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high fire, add wax gourd, then cook over low fire for1~ 2 hours, and season to drink.
Efficacy: It has the effects of clearing away lung heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and dispelling wind-heat and catching cold.
9, sweating porridge
Ingredients: 20 grams of fermented soybean, 6 grams of Schizonepeta tenuifolia, 6 grams of Saposhnikovia divaricata, 3 grams of Gardenia, 60 grams of gypsum, 3 slices of ginger, 2 stems of scallion, and 0/00 gram of japonica rice/kloc.
Practice: First, put the above medicines into a casserole, boil them for about 5 ~, filter the juice to remove residue, then add japonica rice and cook them together to make porridge.
Efficacy: This prescription takes pungent cooling and antipyretic as the main curative effect, and is suitable for people with severe wind-heat and persistent high fever, headache and anhidrosis, dry throat and thirst, and strong pulse, with remarkable curative effect.
10, Astragalus, Ginger and Jujube Porridge
Ingredients: Radix Astragali15g, Fructus Jujubae15g, and 3 slices of ginger.
Practice: Wash and slice Radix Astragali, wash Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens and Fructus Jujubae, boil with high fire, and then cook with low fire 1 hour, and drink soup.
Efficacy: It can stimulate appetite, dispel cold and relieve exterior syndrome, and is a good medicine for treating wind-heat cold.
1 1, mulberry leaf loquat porridge
Materials: mulberry leaf18g, loquat leaf10g, sugarcane100g, raw cogongrass rhizome 30g, mint 6g and stem rice 60g.
Practice: Wash and chop the above medicines, add appropriate amount of water, decoct to get juice, cook in japonica rice until the rice porridge is thick, and take it while it is hot. Daily 1 dose for 3 days.
Efficacy: Folium Mori, Rhizoma Imperatae and Herba Menthae can clear away heat and promote fluid production; Folium Eriobotryae can relieve lung and cough; Sugarcane and stem rice can promote fluid production and benefit stomach. It is suitable for cold patients with lung and stomach heat and wind heat.
After catching a cold, you must pay attention to rest and ensure sleep. If you still stay up late and are tired, the cold will only get worse. Drink plenty of water and strictly control your diet. It is suggested to eat less meat and more vegetables and fruits after catching a cold. Sydney, pitaya and carrots have the effect of clearing away heat. Keep the stool unobstructed, but don't use laxatives casually, so as not to attract evil spirits into it.