Cold and flu, commonly known as cold and wind, is a high incidence of highly contagious diseases, year-round can be onset. If a person with a cold is treated with medication along with dietary therapy, it will have a better effect than just using medication.
Colds are usually divided into three types: wind-cold, wind-heat and summer-dampness. The first two occur in winter and the latter in summer.
Wind-cold cold:
The cause is due to the cold weather, people do not add clothes in time, the human body by the invasion of cold air, especially the elderly body resistance is poor and lead to the onset of disease. The symptoms are nasal congestion, runny nose, fear of cold, no sweat, headache, body pain, heavy fever, thin white tongue, pulse floating tight. Dietary therapy can be used five god soup and perilla porridge. Five gods soup production method: 10 grams of thorn mustard, 10 grams of Su Ye, 6 grams of tea, 10 grams of ginger, 30 grams of brown sugar. Will thuja, Su leaves clean, and tea, ginger and put into the casserole pot to boil, and then add boiling brown sugar water can be, can be taken instead of tea. Perilla porridge production method: 50 grams of round-grained rice, perilla leaves 6 grams, the first round-grained rice fried into porridge, and then with the right amount of water and fried perilla leaves, boiled for 1 minute, remove the slag to take the juice, adjusted to the porridge, add sugar to serve. The above method is to take ginger and perilla pungent to achieve the efficacy of dispersal of wind-cold, sweating and relief.
Wind-heat cold:
Patients with headache and fever, cough and phlegm, dry mouth and throat, red swelling and pain, red tongue. Dietary therapy can use mulberry leaves, mint and bitter bamboo drink. Production method: take 5 grams of mulberry leaves, 5 grams of chrysanthemum, leucaena leucocephala, mint washed, put into a teapot, soak in boiling water for 10 minutes to become. Drink at any time. Another available double-flower drink, production method: take 30 grams of honeysuckle, hawthorn 10 grams, 250 grams of honey. Honeysuckle, hawthorn into the aluminum pot, add the right amount of water, boil, 3 minutes later, the liquid will be poured into a small pot, and then boiled 1 time to pour out the liquid, will be 2 times the liquid merger, into the honey, stir evenly into. Can be taken at any time. Cabbage and mung bean juice can also be taken, take 1 cabbage root, sliced, add 30 grams of mung beans, decoction soup to drink, you can also add the right amount of sugar. The above method, can evacuate the wind heat.
Summer cold:
Summer temperature is high, people sweat a lot, physical exertion is greater, if the lack of sleep, or overwork, as well as bathing in cold water, or too much cold drinks, sweating with a fan blowing and so on and caused by a cold. Patients manifested with headache and fever, drowsiness and weakness, do not think of food and drink, pulse moistening and slippery, dietary therapy available lotus leaf porridge. Production method: 50 grams of round-grained rice, fresh lotus leaves 1, round-grained rice fried porridge, cooking the leaf cover on the porridge or chopped lotus leaves, another water juice, adjusted into the porridge, add sugar. Can also use patchouli drink, production method: 10 grams of fresh patchouli leaves, sugar, water decoction. The above methods can ease the internal relief, dispel summer heat and dampness.