How about getting better faster from a hot cold?
(1) Mulberry Leaf Mint Drink 5 grams of mulberry leaves, 5 grams of chrysanthemums, 3 grams of mint, 30 grams of bitter bamboo leaves. The medicine will be cleaned with water, put into the teapot, with boiling water can be ten minutes, drink at any time. This product on the wind-heat cold both pungent and cool to relieve the role of the table, but also can be done as a preventive tea to drink. (2) silver mint drink 30 grams of silver flowers, mint 10 grams, 60 grams of fresh rehmannia. First silver flowers, rehmannia with 500 milliliters of water, boiled for 15 minutes, then under the mint boiled for 3 minutes, filtered out and add the right amount of sugar, warm service, daily service 3 to 4 times. This drink has a strong antipyretic effect, suitable for wind-heat cold fever, dry throat and thirst protruding people. (3) powdered kudzu and edamame porridge powdered kudzu root 10 grams, 10 grams of edamame, 3 stems of white onion (washed), 10 grams of maitake, 50 grams of round-grained rice. The powdered kudzu root, tempeh, maitake into a casserole, add 500 ml of water, set on the fire to boil for about 5 to 10 minutes, filter the slag, in the juice into the round-grained rice, with cooking for porridge. Cut the white onion into short sections, put them into the porridge when it is about to become, stir that is, take it warm. In this porridge, Pueraria Mirifica, black beans, scallion white to dispel the evil spirits, maitake, round-grained rice to nourish yin and stomach, have to dispel the wind and slow down, not fierce to relieve the heat, nourish the yin is not greasy characteristics, is the wind-heat cold dietary supplements. (4) mulberry leaf loquat porridge mulberry leaf 18 grams, loquat leaf 10 grams, 100 grams of sugar cane, 30 grams of root, mint 6 grams, 60 grams of stalked rice. The above drugs will be washed and chopped, add the right amount of water, decoction, into the round-grained rice cooked until the rice flower porridge thick, while hot to serve. 1 dose per day, served for 3 days. Mulberry leaves, root, mint to clear heat and generate fluid, loquat leaves to purify the lungs and relieve cough, sugar cane, stalked rice to generate fluid and benefit the stomach, suitable for patients with colds and flu who have heat in the lungs and stomach, and are exposed to wind-heat. (5) sweating tempeh porridge 20 grams of tempeh, 6 grams of thorn mustard, 6 grams of windbreak, 3 grams of gardenia, 60 grams of gypsum, 3 slices of ginger, 2 stems of scallion, 100 grams of round-grained rice. First of all, the above drugs into the casserole pot after boiling about 5 ~ 10 minutes, filtering juice to slag, and then into the round-grained rice, with cooking for porridge. This formula takes pungent coolness to relieve heat as the main therapeutic effect, and is suitable for patients with heavy wind-heat, high fever that does not go away, headache, no sweating, dry throat and thirst, and floating and powerful pulse, with remarkable therapeutic effect. Dietary taboos for wind-heat colds Colds and flu should first be separated into wind-cold and wind-heat colds according to the season of onset or different symptoms. Wind-cold cold mostly manifested as fever and fear of cold, headache and body pain, nasal congestion and clear flow of snot, cough, sputum for the white sticky sputum, thin white tongue coating; wind-heat cold fever is not afraid of cold, headache, sore throat, cough sputum for the yellowish purulent sputum, tongue coating yellowish. [The principle of avoidance] In general, colds belong to the invasion of the external evil, therefore, in principle, colds at the beginning of the desirability of eating a light and sparse diet or food, avoid eating sour, astringent, meat, nourishing food, in order to prevent the closed door to stay in the enemy, the external evil is not easy to drive out. During the period of cold and fever, avoid smoking and alcohol, smoking can directly stimulate the upper respiratory tract, and drinking alcohol after the skin capillary dilatation, the external evil will take advantage of the weakness, so that the old feeling is not yet healed, the new feeling again. Avoid eating greasy, sticky food to avoid affecting the digestive function. For people with wind-heat cold, it is advisable to eat cool and pungent foods that clear away wind and heat and benefit the throat, and avoid eating spicy and hot items. During colds, when the stomach and intestines are not functioning well, it is advisable to eat thin porridge, noodles, soft rice, fresh vegetables, fruits and foods rich in vitamin C, in order to replenish the loss of nutrients due to fever, and to enhance the ability to fight diseases. [Honeysuckle has the effect of clearing away heat, and is commonly used in Chinese medicine to treat wind-heat colds. Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbs: "Honeysuckle clears heat and removes toxins, and is used to treat external fever and cough. Made into herbal tea, it can prevent heat stroke and cold." Anyone who has a summer cold with fever and sore throat should drink honeysuckle in tea. Lotus leaf is suitable for people with wind-heat cold in summer, it has the effect of clearing summer heat. Yunnan Materia Medica: "Lotus leaf clears wind-heat from the head and eyes." The Materia Medica Revisited: "Clearing and cooling the summer heat, quenching thirst, generating fluids, and relieving fire and heat." So the hot summer season, with the lotus leaves decoction tea, on the prevention and treatment of summer fever and cold, the most appropriate. Peppermint Cool, pungent flavor, wind, heat dissipation, the role of the throat. The Compendium of Materia Medica: "Mentha piperita, pungent to disperse, cool to clear, specializing in eliminating wind and dispersing heat." It is suitable for people with wind-heat colds, headache, red eyes and sore throat. White Chrysanthemum 5g of white chrysanthemum is suitable for people with wind-heat and cold, brewed with boiled water and drunk as tea. It is especially suitable for drinking in the summer heat, as it has the effects of dispersing wind, clearing heat, brightening the eyes, detoxifying the toxin, and dispelling summer heat. Tempeh is flat and can dissolve superficial evils. Folks often use tempeh and scallion white together, or decoct soup to drink, or cook porridge to eat, no matter it is for wind-cold or wind-heat cold, it is suitable for sweating, and it has the effect of reducing fever. Chrysanthemum Brain is often used as a good summer vegetable in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. It is cool in nature, sweet in taste, has the effect of clearing heat, cooling blood, dispelling summer heat, lowering fire, clearing the head and eyes, and is most suitable for summer wind-heat colds, fever, dry mouth, sore throat and bitter mouth, headache and red eyes to be consumed in soup. Olives, also known as green fruit. Lung, throat, phlegm, the role of wind-heat colds combined with sore throat is particularly suitable. Folk custom with fresh olives 3 ~ 5, split, fresh radish (red skin, white skin can be) half to 1 cut, boiled water to drink tea. Ancient reputation as "green dragon white tiger soup", on the wind and fire sore throat, red swelling between the throat, quite therapeutic effect. Groundnuts can promote the production of fluids to quench thirst, can be eaten raw or boiled. Lu Chuan Materia Medica: "Shengjin quench thirst, cure fever thirst." It is suitable for wind-heat colds, fever, dry mouth, headache and thirst. Water chestnut is suitable for people with wind-heat colds with yellow cough and phlegm, sore throat, dry mouth and thirst. It has the effect of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and quenching thirst, and can be eaten raw, boiled or squeezed for drinking. If you drink with jellyfish skin decoction, the effect of phlegm and cough better. Pear Cool, sweet, can produce flu, clear heat, phlegm, suitable for wind-heat cold, fever, dry mouth and thirst, cough and phlegm yellow, feel free to eat. Folk custom of wind Heat cold and cough, with a raw pear, cleaned and chopped skin, plus rock sugar stewed water service. Radish has clear heat and detoxification, cough and phlegm effect, on the wind-heat cold caused by cough and phlegm, especially suitable. Folk use radish (red skin spicy radish is better)