1, Watermelon: Watermelon is cold and sweet. It has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, quenching thirst and facilitating urination. It is one of the fruits with the highest consumption rate in summer. When the cold gets worse, there will be high fever, thirst, sore throat, yellow urine and other heat symptoms. Eating watermelon properly can alleviate the related symptoms and help the cold recover.
After a high fever and a lot of sweating, if you don't eat or drink, it is easy to cause electrolyte disorder. It is best to eat watermelon or drink freshly squeezed watermelon juice first, which can help reduce fever, replenish body fluids, reduce swelling and promote diuresis. In hot summer, when children have fever, use watermelon peel to cook porridge or melon and barley to boil water, which can relieve summer heat, promote fluid production and promote diuresis.
2, pear: pear is cool, sweet, can produce fluid, clear away heat and resolve phlegm. It can obviously relieve symptoms such as wind-heat cold, fever, dry mouth, cough and expectoration. Pear contains more carbohydrates and vitamins, which can be easily absorbed by human body, stimulate appetite and protect liver.
For patients with wind-heat cold, you can use a raw pear, wash it and cut it into pieces, and add rock sugar to stew water for oral administration, which will have a good effect. Pear itself has the effect of clearing away heat, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, but because it is a cool fruit, it has no curative effect on cough caused by cold at the beginning, and may even aggravate the cough situation; However, we can change the nature of pears by stewing and boiling them, so that they can be used as a cough-relieving prescription.
3, horseshoe: water chestnut is a cold food, which has the effects of clearing away heat and purging fire, diuresis and relaxing bowels, cooling blood and detoxifying, which can not only clear away heat and promote fluid production, but also supplement nutrition, especially suitable for patients with early fever. As far as its nutrition is concerned, water chestnut is rich in carbohydrates, but its calorie is not very high. At the same time, it is rich in phosphorus and antibacterial component water chestnut, which is not only beneficial to the development of bones and teeth, but also promotes the metabolism of sugar, fat and protein in the body, and has the effect of inhibiting bacteria such as Escherichia coli.
Although it is crisp and delicious to eat raw, it is best to wash and cook it, and the cooked water chestnut is sweeter and tastes better. Eating water chestnut when you have a fever is more effective in compatibility with juices such as pear, lotus root and reed root, but it is only an auxiliary method of dietotherapy. When the high fever persists or the condition worsens, you should seek medical advice as soon as possible.
4, grapes: a cold and fever is suitable for eating grapes, it contains enough water and potassium, which can supplement the water and potassium lost due to a cold and fever. It is recorded in Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica that "grapes are sweet and flat, which can relieve dampness in bones and muscles, replenish qi, increase strength and ambition, make people fat and healthy, resist hunger and endure cold." If you eat for a long time, you will not grow old. "
There is a tongue twister that says, "Eat grapes without spitting their skins", which makes sense. Because many signature nutrients of grapes exist in the skin, the function of grape juice is inferior to that of spit grape skin. I suggest that when you eat grapes, try to eat them with the skin.
5. Apple: As early as in ancient Egypt, people regarded apple not only as a food, but also as a medicinal material. Canadian research shows that apple juice has a powerful effect on killing infectious viruses in test tubes, and people who eat more apples are far less likely to catch a cold than those who don't eat or eat less. Some scientists and doctors call apples "all-round healthy fruits" or "general practitioners".
Apples are rich in vitamin C, and vitamin C has the functions of resisting colds and enhancing disease resistance. Fresh apple juice is a good choice. This is because apple juice contains a lot of vitamin C, which can supplement the nutritional needs of the body and neutralize the toxins in the body.
6, kiwifruit: kiwifruit is rich in vitamin C, which has the effect of enhancing immunity. At the same time, the polysaccharides contained in kiwifruit have the ability to prevent bacterial infection. The golden kiwifruit contains more vitamin C and vitamin E than the turquoise kiwifruit, which has the effect of relieving cold symptoms.
Eating more kiwi fruit can increase the intake of vitamin C, which is of great help in fighting colds. However, people with loose stool due to spleen deficiency, colds, malaria, cold-dampness dysentery, chronic gastritis, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea and infantile diarrhea are not suitable for eating.
7. Oranges: Oranges contain high levels of vitamin C, about 30% more than ordinary fruits. If you want to stay away from colds and flu in winter, the simplest and most effective way is to eat more oranges, which is known as a wonderful way to strengthen the human immune system and resist diseases, and its effect is no less than that of cold medicine.
Eat one orange a day, no more than five, and avoid eating with betel nuts. It is not suitable to eat before meals or on an empty stomach, otherwise the organic acids contained in oranges will stimulate the gastric mucosa and be harmful to the stomach. Don't drink milk within 1 hour before and after eating oranges, because protein in milk will solidify when it meets fruit acid, which will affect digestion and absorption.