The fact is that there is no such thing as a quick recovery from a cold. It takes about a week to get over a cold, whether you take medicine or not.
But why do we sometimes feel that it takes a few days for the symptoms of a cold to subside? This is because the medicine we take helps us to relieve the symptoms and reduce the body's stress response. After taking the medicine, many of our friends think they are better, but in fact, the virus is still in our body.
I'll explain in more detail below.
First of all, why do we have a cold?
1. Colds are a series of reactions that occur when the body encounters external disturbancesMany of my friends often have the feeling that the weather has suddenly gotten colder lately, and the number of people with colds around them has increased all of a sudden. This is actually one of the situations where the outside world interferes with our bodies.
There are two reasons why people get colds: one is that viruses or bacteria from the outside world come in strong and multiply too fast, and after entering our bodies through the face, mouth and nose, they trigger colds. The other reason is that the body's immunity has been lowered and the balance of the body's functioning has been disturbed by the cold wind that has recently blown in, or by being overly tired, staying up late for a long time, and so on. The virus that the body can suppress originally, gets to multiply rapidly, which also triggers the cold.
2. What is the cause of wind-cold and wind-heat in Chinese medicine?In fact, the wind-cold and wind-heat that Chinese medicine often refers to is just a summary of the symptoms that people experience after catching a cold, not the cause of your illness. Chinese medicine is just a more detailed categorization of your symptoms, which serves to enable people to treat the symptoms according to their own symptoms.
For example:
After a person catches a cold, symptoms such as a runny nose, a particular fear of the cold, and coughing up white phlegm are very much like the reaction that occurs when a person has been exposed to a cold wind and has been exposed to cold. So at this time, you have to remove the wind and cold for yourself, drink some ginger soup and other pungent and warm food to disperse the cold; and runny nose, heavy fever, coughing yellow phlegm is like a reaction to heat, you can drink some mint water, green tea and other cool and hot food, to get rid of the heat.
After figuring out the cause, the next question is: how to recover quickly from a cold?
1. Taking medicine doesn't cure a cold, it only helps us relieve the symptomsAccording to experimental statistics, 95% of people with a cold have a viral cold, not a bacterial one. And according to the current level of medical care, whether it is Chinese medicine or Western medicine, for the time being, there is no effective drug that can kill the virus directly. That is to say, you take medicine or no medicine, in fact, almost need about 1 week to get well.
So taking medication doesn't work for us? Not really. What medications do is help us relieve symptoms and reduce the body's stress response.
Talk to you about what the stress response is. After a cold, all of us more or less feel a little hard on our bodies. Light sneezing, coughing; more serious may be fever. This discomfort of the body is actually the stress response produced by the immune system after detecting the invasion of the virus, and its function is to be able to further activate our immune system.
Because everyone's body is different, the degree of stress response varies. Some people have only mild symptoms, such as a runny nose, an irritated throat, a slight fever, etc. Some people have more aggressive stress reactions, such as a fever of 38 or 39 degrees, or a sore throat that makes them unable to speak.
Friends with intense stress reactions should not fight hard at this time, and must take some medication to bring down the body's stress reactions and alleviate the symptoms. If you have a high fever, take some antipyretic, if you have a sore throat, take some painkillers, or go to the hospital and ask your doctor for help.
This is why some people feel that after taking medication, they feel that their body recovers quickly. After the medication reduces the body's stress response, the body that was difficult to take the medication is much easier, and many friends think that they are better, but in fact the virus is still in our body.
2. The reason why a cold is good is that it depends on our body's defense device - immunityOur body has a very amazing defense device, which is immunity. Every cold is a battle between the immunity and the virus.
Immunity is kind of like a radar in our body; when a virus enters the body, it is quickly detected by immunity. The B-cells in the immune cells contain a dozen or so gene fragments, and when a virus is detected, the B-cells are activated, and the dozen or so gene fragments quickly begin to make permutations and combinations until they correctly recognize the foreign virus, and then proceed to kill it without mercy.
This is why it takes about a week to heal after a cold, with or without medication. This is because the immune system needs some time to activate.
Thinking about it this way, it seems like the immune system is really subtle. A dozen or so gene fragments make combinations with an infinite variety of possibilities, and I don't know how long it would take if people alone were to do the math. In our bodies, on the other hand, it takes just a few days for B cells to match the right combination.
Even more surprisingly, viruses that have been recognized by the immune system leave a memory of recognition (there are upwards of 100 viruses that cause us to catch colds). The next time the same virus is encountered, the body recovers much faster. So every cold and fever is the equivalent of an upgrade to the system.
When you're sick, think of the immune system in your body working so hard, and it doesn't seem so hard to pull through.
3. Although colds can't be cured by taking medicine, there are two other ways that can help us speed up our recoveryThe two ways are: regulating the spleen and stomach and drinking more hot water.
Moderating the spleen and stomach
When the immune system detects viruses invading the body, it will want to rush to get rid of these "foreign objects". This is why many of my friends can't eat after a cold, or can easily get diarrhea if they do: the body is in a defensive phase, and anything that comes in from the outside will be treated as a "foreign body" that they want to get rid of in a hurry.
But if you don't eat when you have a cold, your body is weakened, and your immune system can't do its job. It's like a soldier going to war without food. To regulate the spleen and stomach is to find a way to be able to regain a little appetite and eat more food, so that when the body has strength, the cold will heal a little faster.
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Drink more hot waterWhen our body's immunity fights with viruses, it actually discharges a lot of garbage, that is, waste products metabolized by the body. A constant runny nose when you have a cold is one way the body excretes waste. Drinking more hot water is to help the body accelerate the speed of excretion, so that these "wastes" can be as soon as possible through the way of urine, out of the body.
Not only for colds, but also for many other illnesses, the doctor will advise you to drink more hot water, which is the same reason.
The most fundamental way to get back on your feet is to improve your immune system
1. There are two ways to improve your immune system: to increase your body's stability and flexibility.Enhancing the stability of the body means giving the body a good foundation. Our current work schedule is, in general, quite regular. A nine-to-five job, a fixed time to go to sleep, in fact, do not need to do too much adjustment. The main problem is that our bottom is too weak, many people often stay up late, do not exercise, although the regular life, but for the body is a kind of consumption.
The best way to give your body a solid base is to keep regular exercise. A week without running, suddenly take a day to run 5km, 8km, such a fierce come to the way of exercise, is not regular exercise, on the contrary, not good for the body. Regular exercise means exercising at least 4 times a week for at least half an hour each time. Keep at least half a year, so that your body's intestinal flora, microorganisms can slowly adapt to the rhythm of the whole, to adjust, so that is really for the body to play a good bottom.
The second is to enhance the body's flexibility, that is, the ability to resist fluctuations. After the body adapts to the regular rhythm of exercise, it is appropriate to increase the intensity and stimulate it. For example, if the body is used to running 2km a day and doesn't feel tired, you can take a day to run a 4km to stimulate our physical state. After that, we can slowly adjust to running 2.5km or 3km per day, and then suddenly increase the intensity after the body gets used to it. This cycle will steadily strengthen the body's immunity.
2. More than 7 days if there is no effective relief, you need to go to the hospital
According to the data, 5~10 days is the cycle for normal people to cope with colds. If you have better health and stronger immunity, it may take only 4 or 5 days for a cold to heal; but if your body's immunity is poorer, 10 days or even if it keeps recurring badly, is normal.
But in general, taking the average to calculate, from the cold to the cold to be cured need 7 days of time. If you have a cold that lasts longer than 7 days and your symptoms don't subside, it's best to go to the hospital and have your doctor check you out. It is possible that you have a bacterial cold that needs to be treated with the right amount of antibiotics.
###For the average young adult: a week of medicine is good, seven days without medicine. The thing about the common cold is that it's a self-limiting illness caused by a viral infection, and there's no cure. It's all about your immunity. Rest more, drink more water. The subject means to control the symptoms, right? If the symptoms are serious, treat the symptoms. Fever, sore throat serious eat sore throat medicine, headache serious eat 1 headache medicine, cough serious eat cough medicine, have infection eat antibiotics. There are other serious complications except.
According to the comments section, found that said not too rigorous. Let's just say that most of what we normally encounter are common colds (except flu), most of which are viral (except bacterial), and most of which have no serious complications. (Please think about how to say this more rigorously). Let's all move to the comments section for @Zhou Yanzhuo's additions.
What I'm trying to say is that most of the time (see above for a few times), we take medication just to relieve the symptoms, not to shorten the course of the disease. That's why there's this saying that you get better in a week with meds and seven days without them
Also, people should not go on antibiotics at the first sign of a cold. There are no signs of bacterial infection, so don't use them indiscriminately, and don't just take multiple antibiotics at the same time. Antibiotic abuse is ingrained in the public's mind.
Once again, if there are signs of bacterial infection (bacterial cold or viral cold secondary to bacterial infection) you should still take antibiotics. If you are experiencing anything other than the majority of cases, please seek medical attention. There have been many deaths due to "colds" (colds are in quotes because they are a common understanding). Don't overdo it, don't go to extremes.
Finally, I accept @Zhou Yanzhuo's critique of my sloppy presentation, and I thank @Zhou Yanzhuo for his well-reasoned additions. I don't accept the unjustified abuse and rebuttals of some f-starting salesman and some h-starting math student.
###NOTICE: First of all, you have to distinguish between wind-cold cold or wind-heat cold, they are not the same, here only for the ordinary general wind-cold cold.
In this age of efficiency in all things, the 5-hour quick cure floats by.
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Personal situation: cold wind caused by wind-cold cold + medium-low fever, headache and dizziness + limb pain, no cough, do not know medicine (exemption).
Personal solution:
Eat a meal of sweaty things for energy, like chili fried rice and spicy noodles. Take a super hot shower, especially special care for feverish areas eg brain, lower armpits, soles of feet, etc. for as long and as hot as possible to fight toxins with toxins (heat with heat). For nose thia, sore eyes, can: warm water with salt, gargle and brush teeth, consciously use a toothbrush to gently brush the upper and lower jaw / throat (pay attention to the depth of the shallow), through the stimulation of the salt water, resulting in regurgitation / want to vomit feeling, so that you can clean up some of the garbage. Use relatively hot water (personally acceptable), wash your face well, and use a hot water towel on the bridge of your nose (can cover your eyes), which can unclog the residue and relieve sore eyes4. Drink lots of water (within a few hours, I drank about 3-4L of water)
5. Take your cold and flu medication.
6. Cover the blanket: put on winter thermal underwear, go to bed and cover the blanket to sleep well (for some adults, it is said to be risky for small children)
7. Get a good night's rest, close the curtains, and sleep for a few hours (I slept for 5 by myself)
8. If you wake up during your sleep, keep replenishing the water source.
9. When you wake up, change out of your soaked underwear and dry off/go for a super hot shower. (Be careful not to get windy and cold again)
10. Heal.
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Personal bias:
The reason for not using ice packs/cold water on the face, but hot water. Is that one has always believed that: a conflict can never be resolved by repressing it, it has to be unblocked. If you have a fire in your body, using cold water will only repress it, giving you a superficial 'cooling' but blocking the release. (Of course, here only refers to the medium-low fever; except for high fever, that way not physical cooling may really burn the brain, such as higher temperatures, please promptly use an ice pack / cold water towel forehead and other physical cooling to prevent burning brain)
Patch:
If the sore throat, such as viral cold:
(in the case of people who are not allergic to or unsuitable for the situation) you can try - - Nien Ci'an loquat cream / rock sugar pear boiled water (can not be mixed at the same time to eat do not know; suggest not mix it; only choose one)
(not too much trouble first rock sugar pear boiled water)
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Plus: both self-medication, can only say that the responsibility for their own
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Hot water bath and time still need to pay attention to (insurance to adjust the temperature and time to eight points to endure it - do not try to eat a bite into a big fat person), cold and low fever, the person would have been mentally ill, do not rule out the trance when fainting in the bathroom may be, so if there is a partner or roommate, you can tell them ahead of time to prevent the possibility of accidents. Otherwise, the consequences of fainting in an enclosed space could be serious. As seen in the comments section - some of you warmed yourself in your car with the air conditioning on, but it is important to warn - the consequences of fainting in an enclosed space can be dangerous. If you have to do that, make sure there is at least one person equally next to you who can warn you.
On the other hand, this slightly more intense hot shower is perhaps more dangerous for those with problematic deficiencies in their own cardiorespiratory function? (eg myocarditis etc... I don't get it)
###### Drink plenty of hot water without interfering with your sleep, have Fruity Jane or VC available to brew, get some rest when it's time to go to bed, and take hot baths with high water temperatures. Be careful not to catch a cold, especially if the cold is just right, relapses are nasty. It's actually better to drink lots of hot water and cover your sweat. If the root cause, then exercise well, don't forget to exercise when your body is well. #### Anger Answer, non-medical, but very experienced! First of all: if the cold does not cause other serious complications such as fever, persistent cough, chest pain, breathlessness, do not need too much treatment, just relieve the symptoms can be (those are not just a cold, is the lower respiratory tract infection caused by a variety of inflammation, must be immediately seek medical attention). Because most of the drugs with immediate effect use antibiotics, which are not good for the body, and easy for germs to develop drug resistance! Second: There are two types of colds, what we call wind-cold and wind-heat colds. Wind-cold cold manifests itself in the early stages of a large number of sneezing, runny nose, no fever, no sweating, coughing and so on. Wind-heat cold symptoms of the initial performance of the body feel hot, sore throat and throat, nasal congestion without nasal discharge, then three or four days after the beginning of coughing, hoarse, sore throat, eye congestion and tearing, coughing up sputum and snot for the yellow or green, yellow staphylococcus infection, green Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection, belonging to the bacterial cause of upper respiratory tract infections (I know so much is because I'm still in the sore throat ~ tears) and then. The immediate cure for a cold must be in the early stages. For example, if you know you're freezing from the wind and cold or something like that, go home and rush to drink ginger tea, cover your blankets, soak your feet in hot water, and drink lots of hot water. When you begin to occasionally sneeze three times in a row, throat dry itchy pain, headache and dizziness, go home and hurry to two packages of 999 or other heat detoxification and wind dispersal of medicine, drink a sleep. (I know more about wind-heat colds, because the old heat sensation, suddenly cold, and then began to ache all over the body weakness dizziness and headache, hanging water also did not have a very relieving effect, supplemented with water and nutrients or add antibiotics, not serious cases as well as not hanging). Finally, the cold to rest more and more rest ah! Do not stay up all night do not do strenuous exercise, easy to trigger myocarditis. If you are already very uncomfortable, take some symptomatic relief of symptoms of proprietary Chinese medicine, less hormone antibiotic drugs. And finally, usually drink more tea can add a lot of vitamins, tea polyphenols, anthocyanins and so on to increase immunity, pro-test effective. I had a batch every month, and then I got a job as a tea master, and I drank a lot of tea every day, and I didn't have a cold for more than half a year. This quit my job over a month ago and am in the middle of a cold ...... If you really don't love tea, then drink a lot of lemonade because vitamin c can increase immunity. Lemon water also do not love to drink, then just drink water, universal water! And lastly, if you're in a plateau, take it from me, lie down honestly and listen to your doctor! ###Talking about treatment with Chinese medicine
While eating Chinese medicine can be a quick recovery, but there is something to be said for choosing the right medicine, and choosing the wrong one may be the more you eat, the heavier you get
Simply put, colds are a battle of offense and defense that takes place on the surface of the muscle and the surface of the muscle and the lungs are closely linked, so the battle, which tends to spill over into the lungs, manifests itself as a series of respiratory symptoms, such as coughing, snotty and so on.
The trend of the battle between the disease and the positive qi determines the progress of the disease
2. The wrong choice of cold medicine, the more you eat the more serious
When I was a kid, I would buy a lot of cold medicine to eat, such as Vicodin tablets and so on, but it also takes a week or more to get well.
Then I read that colds usually heal themselves in a week, and I realized with a dumbfounded look on my face that I was taking all this medicine for nothing.
Why can't you take cold medicine to cure a cold? The reason is simple: colds are also divided into colds and flu, and I'm taking the wrong medicine, so I'm eating more and more.
For example, I have a cold cold, I should eat the pungent medicine, but the result is to eat the cold cold cold Vicodin, but will help the disease. After so many years of taking cold medicine indiscriminately, I'm glad I'm still sitting here typing.
3. Diagnose yourself
As a non-medical professional, how can you determine whether you have a cold or a hot cold.
Come on, take a small notebook and start to remember:
Generally speaking
Wind cold cold cold more nasal congestion, flowing clear, cough sputum thin;
Wind heat is the opposite, snot yellow, cough sputum yellow thick.
Wind-cold is more afraid of cold, like warmth and no sweat;
Wind-heat is not afraid of cold or fever.
These are a few of the more reliable points of identification, which can be easily analyzed by ordinary people.
In addition, there are also rumors that according to the migraine / back of the head pain, sore throat / itchy throat, urinary and fecal changes and so on, which is theoretically correct, but really used to see the disease is not very good, easy to confuse.
In addition, the wind-cold cold will also be heat, such as the first two days of the wind-cold cold is still flowing clear snot, after a few days, the cold evil may be heat, into a phlegm yellow snot thick wind heat, so according to the symptoms of the timely change of medicine.
4. How to recover from a cold
Talking about so many theoretical foundations, we can finally get to the point (Chinese medicine science is a lot of trouble)
To get well fast, first of all, we need to take measures quickly at the beginning of the beginning of a cold, and the longer we delay, the slower the cure.
The wind-cold cold is the most common, at the beginning, there will be nasal congestion, runny nose, some of the main symptoms, the treatment is very simple, go to the kitchen to choose a few warm herbs: ginger, green onions.
Ginger cut on 4, 5 pieces, 3 sections of white onion, boiled water service, and then dress warmer, turn on the computer to chase a drama, sweat a little, usually very soon will be good.
If it's too heavy and you need to take medication, then be careful when you go to the drugstore. Wind-cold and wind-hot cold medicines are stacked on a shelf, and the best way to tell the difference is to look at the ingredients.
If you have a cold or windy cold, then choose a cold medicine with the words: Ma Huang, Qiang Wu, Gui Zhi, Gan Zhi, Angelica dahurica and so on.
Wind-heat colds are mostly caused by wind-heat or wind-cold colds (but wind-heat does not change to wind-cold)
In this case, you can buy mulberry leaves, chrysanthemums, honeysuckle and forsythia to take with boiled water, and then choose medicines with the following words: mulberry leaves, chrysanthemums, honeysuckle, forsythia, mint, burdock, and so on.
Another group of people often catch colds 4 times a month, once a week ......
Recurring colds are due to the weakness of the positive qi responsible for immunity, and if you don't want to continue, you need to treat the positive qi, which can be used with Yu Ping Feng San, available at drugstores. Of course, it is contraindicated during a cold, as these rations may be intercepted by the disease.
5. routinely add two sentences
in fact, many diseases are the same as the cold this small disease, they are although the surface symptoms and the name of exactly the same, but the cause of the different medicines are completely different or even the opposite, do not pay attention to distinguish, it is very easy to eat the wrong medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is especially so. As for VC and cold medicine, I'm too lazy to go out and buy ......### According to my observations over the years is that the general cold regardless of whether to eat or not to take medication to seven days will be good, if you are the kind of viral colds that runny nose to drink more water to the hospital to match the point of medication because of the powerful time will be sore all over the head or high fever, so be sure not to pay attention to the cold or else! It will be more powerful! It will seriously affect your work! ###The cold is not a disease, but coughing really kills!
Recently, the weather is unpredictable, many people have said that the ferocity of the cough, at present for everyone to promote a few ways, do not need to take injections to eat medicine, do not need to enjoy the blessing, easy to cure cough! Garlic color white into the lungs, taste pungent and warm, the most good in addition to the lungs through the wind, cure cough with itchy throat has a miraculous effect! The detailed method of the following, all of them are prescription, choose one can be!
Method one
Peel a grain of garlic in the mouth, from time to time to bite a little, garlic flavor, gradually swallowed, a grain with an hour, the itchy pharynx immediately reduced, cough can be healed.
Method two
Garlic and rock sugar boiled water. With 30 grams of garlic, 10 grams of rock sugar with 200 milliliters of water, first boil the water over high heat, then slowly simmer for a few minutes over low heat, and finally simmer into a small bowl of volume. When the child coughs ferociously, drink three times a day in the morning, midday and evening ****, the next day works, three days after recovery.
Method three
Take three or four heads of garlic, peel the skin, cut the garlic cloves into a thin slice. At night before going to bed, the sliced garlic cloves will be roasted over the fire, and when the garlic slices are dry and brown, crush them into powder with a rolling pin, the more crushed the better. Dig a tablespoon of minced garlic poured into a teacup, then properly add a little brown sugar, pour boiling water, stirring evenly, drink. Drink one or two cups a day for three days, cough can be healed.
Method four
Steam garlic water. Children coughing with garlic 2 to 3 cloves, adults with 7 to 8 cloves, patted, put into a bowl, participate in rock sugar, and then participate in excess water, about the bowl 2/3 height of the water; to the bowl with a lid, put into the pot steam, large fire boil, change to a small fire steam can be 15 minutes. Serious three times a day, can not eat garlic only drink water. If the cough is serious, white sparse phlegm more, indicating that the cold is more serious, you should drink ginger, garlic, brown sugar boiled water. Children can use 3 slices of ginger, garlic 3 cloves, half a spoon of brown sugar; adults with ginger 7 to 8 slices, garlic 7 to 8 cloves, a spoon of brown sugar, put into a pot with water, medium heat for 10 minutes can be, when serious, can be three times a day.
Method six
Take a dozen cloves of garlic, pounded into mud into a cup, add rock sugar in excess, with boiling water, warm service as tea. 1 time a day, cough serious 2 times a day, this party has a rapid cough and phlegm effect.
Method 7
Garlic compresses the heart of the feet to cure cough. Every night before going to bed will be clean feet, the garlic cut into thin slices in the heart of the foot on the Yongquan point (located in the root of the foot up 1/3 of the foot at the palm of the foot), to take the medical tape can be firmly affixed. Garlic is irritating to the skin, paste the time should not be too long, it is best to get up in the morning to remove it. This type of approach to coughing, nosebleeds, constipation have a certain effect, and even dress 7 to 10 days, the results will be better. Maybe part of the heart of the foot of the garlic will be blisters, it is recommended to pause the dressing, to be the skin response to revive the dressing, so that ordinary will not revive the blisters.
Method eight
Garlic cloves pounded into a paste, into an empty medicine bottle, the bottle mouth aimed at the nostrils, as much as possible to inhale garlic pungent odor, depending on the condition of the sniffing 4-5 times a day, pungent taste faded can be replaced with a new garlic paste. The application of the bottle can not be too large, to aim at the size of the two nostrils is good. In addition, you can also remove the outer skin of several pieces of garlic washed, put into the bottle of honey, cover the lid after soaking for about a week, pull out to eat.
Healthy tips cough is divided into wind-cold cough and wind-heat cough. Different types of cough in the medication is completely different, so the dietary approach is also different. Wind-heat cough: yellow and red tongue coating, indicating greater internal heat. Sputum yellow, thick, not simple to cough up, and have sore throat, this time should eat some clear lung, phlegm cough food, such as winter melon, loofah, lotus root. Wind-cold cough: white tongue coating, indicating heavy cold. Sputum is thin, white sticky, and with nasal congestion and runny nose, this time should eat some warm, phlegm cough food, such as ginger, garlic, leeks, oranges and so on. Cold cough by wind-cold evil invasion, internal depression lung gas, lung guards lost Xuan triggered, can be slowed down by other dietary approaches to cough symptoms. I have a few wind-cold cough home remedies, simple and applicable, no harm in trying to see.
Folding radish white soup ingredients: radish 1, 6 white onion, ginger 15 grams. Practice: with three bowls of water first turnip boiled, and then into the scallion white, ginger, cooking left a bowl of soup, even the residue once served. Brown sugar ginger jujube soup ingredients: 30 grams of brown sugar, 15 grams of fresh ginger, 30 grams of jujube. Practice: the above materials with three bowls of water to fry up to half a bowl of soup, three times a day, after serving a slight sweat that is healed.
Function: expel wind and dispel cold, cure cold cough.
Coriander soup materials: 30 grams of cilantro, 30 grams of caramel, 100 grams of rice. Practice: first wash the rice, add water to cook soup, take three tablespoons of rice, and cilantro, caramel stirred and steamed for 10 minutes, served while hot, pay attention to avoid wind and cold.
Function: sweating and penetrating the surface, cure cough caused by cold.
Folding white radish honey material: white radish 1, 30 grams of honey, white pepper 5, ephedra 2 grams. Practice: wash the radish, sliced into a bowl, pour honey and white pepper, ephedra and other **** steamed for half an hour, take while hot, lying down to see the sweat is healed. Function: sweating cold, cough and phlegm, treatment of cold and cough.
The proverb says: "three points of treatment, seven points of maintenance". The treatment of cough, should enhance the dietary care, pay attention to dietary supplements to nourish the lungs. Can properly eat some yin and Jin products, such as lily, honey, pears, lotus seeds, fungus, grapes, and all kinds of fresh vegetables and other soft food, eat less spicy and hot products. Silver fungus rice porridge, lotus root rice porridge, yam rice porridge, jujube and silver ear soup, adjusted into the excess sugar or rock sugar can be used.
###Eat Tylenol.
Reading the pharmacological description of Tylenol, especially touched, accustomed to seeing a variety of medicines pharmacological effect of the column written: not yet clear, so clear, but also close to all the effects of their own expectations of the cold medicine pharmacological explanation, the placebo effect alone has been full of.
Most recent record, from cold to recovery: 3 days, mostly thanks to the dear immune system, of course. Then recorded the effects of Tylenol:
1. Pseudoephedrine-reduced nasal congestion: effective
2. Dextromethorphan-suppressed cough: effective
3. Antihistamines-reduced tearfulness and runny nose: fair
4. Acetaminophen-antipyretic and analgesic: because I had expected the first day of the febrile response to put a stop to the cold; so immune Combat round 1 was not medicated , not quite able to assess the effect