During the period of cold, regardless of wind-cold, wind-heat, you should not eat nourishing, greasy and sour foods such as pork, duck, chicken, mutton gizzard, glutinous rice, astragalus, Polygonatum, Ophiopogon japonicus, ginseng, placenta and donkey-hide gelatin, and all kinds of marine fish, shrimps and crabs, longan, pomegranate, dark plum and various sticky sweet foods.

People suffering from wind chill should also avoid eating the above cold foods, such as persimmons, dried persimmons, tofu, mung bean sprouts, snails, mussels, raw radishes, raw lotus roots, raw sweet potatoes, raw watermelons, raw pears, raw water chestnuts, arhat, Leng Cha, chrysanthemum brain, mint, honeysuckle and white chrysanthemum.

People with wind-heat colds should also avoid ginger, pepper, cinnamon, fennel, clove, Amomum villosum, white wine, Cordyceps sinensis and so on.

Eat when you have a cold.

A cold is commonly known as a cold. According to the onset season or symptoms, the same doctor usually divides them into two types: wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold. Most of them are fever, fear of cold, headache, general pain, stuffy nose, cough, white phlegm and sticky phlegm. Patients with wind-heat cold have fever, chills, headache, sore throat, cough, yellow phlegm, thick pus and yellowish tongue coating. As for cold due to qi deficiency, cold due to yin deficiency, cold due to yang deficiency, cold due to rheumatism, cold due to summer heat and dampness, etc.