How to do diet therapy when you have a cold? What are the dietary treatments for colds?

Colds are divided into summer and damp colds, wind chill colds, and wind-heat colds. Summer dampness and cold are hot colds, fever, heavy head, you can eat light food, such as porridge, lotus leaves, Huoxiang, etc., avoid spicy food. Wind chill and cold mostly occur in autumn and winter, fear of cold, runny nose, and sneezing.

You can eat jujubes, almonds, drink ginger soup, etc., and avoid cold foods. Wind-heat colds are mostly in spring and autumn, sore throat, fever, night sweats. You can eat heat-clearing, detoxifying, diuretic and sweating foods, such as watermelon, bitter gourd, pear, and avoid eating tonics.

How to treat colds?

Deputy Chief Physician Zhang Yue.

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shenzhou Hospital, Shenyang Medical College.

In daily life, due to the change of seasons or some other factors, it will cause the phenomenon of cold, which also has a certain impact on the patient's body and mind, which can be relieved by dietary therapy, such as ginger duck egg soup, brown sugar ginger soup, chicken soup and so on.

1. Duck egg soup with ginger shreds.

Wash the ginger first, then remove the skin, cut it into shreds, add water and boil, beat the duck eggs and put them in, then pour in the ginger shreds, stir slightly, and then pour in an appropriate amount of liquor, boil them together, ginger shredded duck egg soup has the effect of warding off the cold, you can take it once, and the symptoms will be almost better if you take it three times in a row.

2. Brown sugar ginger soup.

The ingredients contained in ginger can drive away the heat in the body and make the body sweat, especially the old ginger with less water, which can promote blood circulation, and if taken with brown sugar, it can supplement the body's calories, but brown sugar ginger soup is more suitable for colds of the nature of wind and cold, if it is other colds, it is not suitable for consumption.

3. Chicken broth. Drinking chicken soup has the effect of relieving symptoms such as nasal congestion and cough caused by colds, and chicken contains very high nutrients, which can increase the body's resistance, because chicken soup is more effective in eliminating symptoms such as nasal congestion and runny nose caused by colds, and chicken also contains some special chemical components, which can increase blood circulation in the pharynx and promote the secretion of nasal fluid.

4. Mung bean porridge.

First of all, clean the mung beans and japonica rice, put them in a pot and boil, and when they are cooked, add rock sugar, stir well and eat, the effect of mung bean porridge is to clear heat and detoxify. It can be taken once in the morning and once in the evening, which can effectively relieve the symptoms of colds.

5. Honeysuckle mint tea.

First, add an appropriate amount of water to the honeysuckle and reed root, cook together for about fifteen minutes, then add mint and cook for another three minutes, then put it out and filter out the water, add white sugar and you can eat it, and you can take it about three or four times a day.

6. Honey lemonade.

First of all, squeeze the juice with fresh lemon, then add an appropriate amount of honey, and then add an appropriate amount of warm water, and patients with colds can drink about 500 to 1,000 ml a day, which can reduce the phenomenon of runny nose, and the cold will slowly improve.