What are the best dishes to eat for colds?

Active treatment is required for a cold. As we all know, there are many diseases that require special attention in diet. Dietary care plays an auxiliary role in the recovery of the disease, especially for a cold. During the cold period, the patient's diet should be light and easily digestible. Do not eat spicy and irritating foods. Be sure to drink plenty of water and pay more attention to rest.

6 kinds of vegetables to eat when you have a cold

1. Ginger

Ginger is warm in nature and spicy in taste. It has the effects of dispelling cold, inducing sweat, relieving exterior symptoms and expelling wind. It is suitable for people with colds. People often use 3 slices of ginger, an appropriate amount of brown sugar, and boiling water to brew it, commonly known as ginger and brown sugar tea. Drinking it frequently will cure the disease by sweating.

Drinking ginger and brown sugar water can relieve the cold caused by wind and cold. At this time, it is best to peel the ginger. The ginger skin prevents the ginger from fully exerting its pungent and warming effect of diaphoresis and antiperspirant effect, which goes against the treatment principle of sweating for colds caused by wind and cold.

2. Scallion

Scallion white is warm in nature and spicy in taste. It can regulate body temperature, make the sweat glands work normally, and reduce and prevent the occurrence of colds. Suitable for people suffering from colds and flu.

If you suffer from a cold caused by wind and cold, you can take the following prescription: 5 sections of scallion, 9 grams of light fermented black beans, and 3 slices of ginger, decocted in water.

3. Chili

Chili pepper is very spicy and hot. Spicy can disperse the heat, and hot can dispel the cold. Therefore, it has the function of dispersing cold and inducing sweating, and is especially suitable for colds and chills. "Yao Xing Kao" points out that chili pepper "warms the middle and dispels cold, eliminates wind and induces sweating." Therefore, it is appropriate to eat chili peppers for colds caused by wind and cold, but it is best not to eat it for colds caused by wind and heat.

Drinking soup made with chili peppers and ginger can treat colds and is especially suitable for patients with indigestion.

4. Coriander

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coriander is pungent and warm in nature, enters the lung and spleen meridians, and has the functions of inducing sweating, clearing rashes, digesting food and relieving gas. It is suitable for colds, measles or rubella, food stagnation, indigestion, etc. The "Food Classic" says that it "regulates food and relieves gas." "Compendium of Materia Medica for Food Therapy" says that it "benefits the five internal organs, replenishes the tendons and veins, helps digest food, and treats intestinal wind."

Appropriate amounts of coriander, fresh onion and ginger. Wash the three ingredients, put them in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil them to extract the juice, drink it frequently, 1 dose per day, for 2 to 3 days. It can induce sweating and relieve exterior symptoms, and is suitable for colds, nasal congestion and runny nose.

5. Garlic

Garlic is warm in nature and spicy in taste, and can prevent and treat colds, whether they are caused by wind-cold or wind-heat.

For a cold caused by wind and cold, boil garlic, scallion and ginger into a warm soup and drink it to induce sweating. In summer, eating garlic can relieve the heat, so anyone with a cold can eat it.

6. Perilla

Perilla is warm in nature and spicy in taste. It has the effects of inducing sweating, dispelling cold and reducing fever. It is suitable for people suffering from colds. If people with qi deficiency catch a cold, they should use perilla leaves and rice to make a thin porridge. Because the unique aroma of perilla is perilla acetaldehyde, that is, perilla oil essence, which is easy to volatilize and emit, when cooking perilla porridge it is advisable to add 10 grams of perilla leaves when the porridge is almost cooked, just boil it slightly, and do not cook it for a long time.

For patients with mild symptoms of wind-cold colds such as chills, nasal congestion, and discomfort in the throat, drinking a decoction of perilla leaves alone can be effective. However, since the effect of perilla leaves in inducing sweat and dispersing cold is relatively mild, patients with more obvious wind-cold cold symptoms need to use it together with other antipyretic drugs such as ginger and patchouli.