2, should drink more water: cold people often fever, sweat, the body lost more water. A large amount of water can improve blood circulation, accelerate the excretion of metabolic waste, and enable the body temperature to be distributed in a timely manner. Therefore, there is no stomach disease cold people, drinking light green tea water, the effect is better. Tea has a very good diuretic effect, and both sweating, stomach effect, but also to clear the internal heat.
3, it is advisable to eat more fruits and vegetables: vegetables and fruits can promote appetite, help digestion, supplement a large number of vitamins and various trace elements that the human body needs to supplement the cold and loss of appetite due to the lack of energy and other supplies. Wind-cold cold, can eat more ginger, white onion, parsley, etc.; wind-heat cold, it is appropriate to eat more greens, amaranth, water spinach, spinach, etc.; summer wet cold, it is appropriate to eat more wild rice, watermelon, winter melon, melon, cucumber, etc.; the evil heat is a little flat, it is appropriate to eat more tomatoes, lotus root, citrus, apples, apricots, loquat, sugarcane, water chestnut and so on.
4, avoid dietary disorders: food and medicine, as well as the "four gas", "five flavors" of the properties of different types of colds, should be used with different foods. If you eat casually, dietary disorders, not only on the cold is not favorable, but also make the cold delay difficult to cure. Such as wind-cold cold cold avoid eating cold fruits and cold drinks, etc., because of the cold collects and attracts, so that the mucous membrane, blood vessel contraction, aggravate nasal congestion, sore throat and other symptoms. Wind-heat cold fever period, should be avoided with greasy meat and sweet food, because these foods hinder the transportation of the spleen and stomach, phlegm brewing wet and cause coughing, coughing phlegm, cold spleen and stomach stagnation is not conducive, so the big fish and meat, glutinous rice sweets, fried cakes should not be served; wind-heat cold and flu recovery, should not eat chili peppers, dog meat, mutton and other hot food, so as not to hurt the gas burns the Jin, help the fire and sputum. Summer colds, in addition to avoiding fat and greasy, but also avoid salty foods such as salted vegetables, salted fish, etc., because too salty condensation wet phlegm, stimulate the airways to cause coughing, is not conducive to the recovery of colds.
5, avoid drinking alcohol and strong tea: alcohol, especially the high number of spirits, can make the whole body vasodilatation, excitation of the brain center, affecting sleep, cause headaches, reduce the ability to fight disease, make the disease worse, so avoid drinking alcohol cold disease. Drinking strong tea not only affects the cold patients rest and sleep, some components of tea can also fight, reduce or interfere with the efficacy of antipyretic and analgesic drugs. In addition, some of the acidic or alkaloidal components of proprietary medicines for the treatment of colds are prone to precipitation reactions with the tannins in tea, making the drugs deteriorate and become ineffective. Therefore, during the treatment of colds, it is best not to drink strong tea, not to use strong tea water to send medicine.