How to ventilate your nose when you have a cold

Although a cold is not a serious illness, once it occurs, people will feel uncomfortable. For example, a cold often causes nasal congestion, which makes people feel particularly uncomfortable when breathing. Certain tips can be used to improve the phenomenon of nasal congestion. If it is winter, you can use fresh orange peels to squeeze the juice into the nasal cavity, or improve it by steaming it with hot vinegar.

How to ventilate your nose when you have a cold

1. Aim the fresh orange peel at your nostrils and squeeze it hard to let the juice spray into your nasal cavity, and your nose will be unblocked soon.

2. If you have a blocked nose on the left side, lie on your right side; if you have a blocked nose on the right side, lie on your left side. Pinch your nose with two fingers and press and rub the Yingxiang points on both sides for 1 to 2 minutes to remove the blocked nose.

3. Put a few drops of Sanhantang Bi Yining into the blocked nose and the nose will be unblocked.

4. Use 1 clove of garlic, mash the scallion whites and extract the juice to soak into cotton wool, then stuff the cotton wool into the nostrils, or use a knife to cut it into a shape that matches the nostrils and stuff it into the nostrils. Do it several times in a row and it will be cured.

5. If you have a stuffy nose due to a cold, you can use lukewarm salt water to carefully wash your nostrils. Do this for a few days and you will be cured. It can also prevent rhinitis.

6. Take a small handful of scallion or three or four shallots, chop them into a soup, and inhale the hot steam through your nose. Or boil vinegar and inhale the vinegar vapor, which has a better therapeutic effect.

What to eat when you have a cold

When you have a cold, you should eat light, easily digestible soft rice or semi-liquid food, such as white porridge, oatmeal porridge, and light milk, and drink plenty of water. Avoid eating raw, cold, greasy, meaty, fried, hot, and yin-nourishing foods, such as fried meat, mutton, dog meat, water fish, ginseng, glutinous rice and their products.

In the early stage of a cold, you should avoid eating raw, cold, and greasy food. If it is warm and hot, and it is in the early stage of clearing, you should also avoid eating raw, cold, and greasy food. Once the heat evil is not gone, high fever will remain, followed by thirst, irritability, and constipation. At this time, you need the help of fruits. You can frequently drink pear juice, orange juice, watermelon, rice soup, mung bean soup, etc. Avoid eating too much raw, cold, and greasy food.

Although the methods introduced above can relieve the nasal congestion caused by colds and allow the nasal congestion to be ventilated, most of the effects are relatively short-lived and cannot completely solve the nasal congestion problem. Nasal congestion is caused by a cold, so naturally the problem of the cold needs to be solved before the nasal congestion can stop and breathing can return to normal.