What are the symptoms of colds and fevers, and what can be eaten to treat them?

In different seasons, people are often hurt by seasonal air. For example, winter is more windy and cold, spring is more windy and hot, the rainy season is more humid, and autumn is more dry. So what are the differences between cold and hot colds? What food can be effective for colds and fevers?

Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment:

Heat cold is caused by wind-heat evil, and its symptoms include high fever, slight aversion to wind, runny nose, yellow mucus, thirst, sore throat, yellow tongue coating, and floating and rapid pulse. It should be treated with pungent and cool herbs to relieve the symptoms. Cold cold is caused by wind and cold evil, with symptoms of severe aversion to cold, mild fever, no sweating, clear nasal discharge, tongue and pharynx not red, white tongue coating, and floating and tight pulse. It should be treated with pungent and warm herbs to relieve the symptoms.

Guangdong is located on the coast of Lingnan. It has hot and rainy summers, and the climate is hot and humid. Colds are often caused by heat and dampness. Children have weak physical fitness and delicate internal organs, so they are particularly susceptible to heat and dampness colds. Symptoms include severe fever, mild aversion to cold, no sweating or sweating with fever that does not go away, nasal congestion and runny nose, heaviness in the head and body, or abdominal pain and bloating, vomiting and diarrhea, red tongue, yellow and greasy tongue coating, and a weak and rapid pulse. The treatment is suitable for dispelling exterior pathogens, removing heat, eliminating dampness and harmonizing the stomach. Because children's spleen and stomach are weak, we must take care of the spleen and stomach while eliminating evil.

Chinese Medicine Prescription

Patchouli Leaf Soup

Ingredients: Patchouli leaves 30g

Preparation: Bring 1500ml of water to a boil, add 30g of Patchouli leaves, cook for about 5 minutes, decoct the soup and drink it as tea, several times a day.

Indications: fullness and nausea in the stomach and loss of appetite caused by dampness blocking the middle burner; headache, abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting caused by summer heat and dampness, or eating cold drinks due to cold.

Efficacy: Aromatic and dehumidifying, relieving heat and stopping vomiting.

Three flower soup

Ingredients: 15g chrysanthemum, 15g honeysuckle, 15g lentil flower.

Preparation: Put the three flowers in an enamel container, add 1000ml of water and boil it into a decoction to drink as tea, several times a day.

Indications: red, swollen and painful eyes and diarrhea caused by summer heat and dampness.

Efficacy: Relieve exterior symptoms and dampness, clear away heat and detoxify.

Meaning of the prescription: Chrysanthemum dispels wind-heat, clears the liver and improves eyesight; honeysuckle clears heat and detoxifies; lentil flower relieves heat and eliminates dampness.

Keywords of Traditional Chinese Medicine

"Heat cold" is a wind-heat cold caused by the wind-heat evil. When wind-heat invades the exterior, heat accumulates in the skin and muscles, causing disharmony between the Wei and the exterior, resulting in fever, sweating, and slight aversion to wind; when wind-heat binds the exterior, the lungs fail to disperse, causing nasal congestion, runny nose, and cough; when wind-heat disturbs the clear orifices, there will be headache and distension, and when heat fumigates the clear passages, there will be sore throat; a red tip of the tongue, a thin yellow coating, and a floating and rapid pulse are symptoms of wind-heat evil in the exterior.

"Cold cold" is a cold caused by the wind and cold evil. When wind-cold is felt from above, symptoms include severe aversion to cold and mild fever; when the lung-Qi fails to be released, symptoms include heavy nasal congestion and clear nasal discharge; when wind-cold binds the surface, the pores are blocked and the Wei-Yang is depressed, symptoms include itchy throat, cough, no sweat, headache, sore limbs, clear and thin white sputum, no thirst or thirst with preference for hot drinks, tongue not red and thin white fur.

Medicinal Tea

Carp Soup with Artemisia capillaris

Ingredients: 50g Artemisia capillaris, two crucian carps, 3 slices of ginger, and appropriate amount of salt.

practice:

1. Kill the crucian carp, clean it, dry it, and fry it in oil until both sides are browned.

2. Pour in about 1500ml of hot water and 3 slices of ginger, boil over high heat for 15 minutes, then simmer over medium heat for one hour and add salt to taste.

Indications: fever, drowsiness, chest tightness, abdominal distension, short and dark urine, eczema, jaundice, etc. caused by summer heat and dampness.

Efficacy: Clears heat and removes dampness.

Meaning of the prescription: Artemisia capillaris can clear away damp-heat in the spleen, stomach, liver and gallbladder, and promote bile secretion and reduce jaundice; crucian carp can strengthen the spleen and appetite, and promote diuresis and remove dampness.

Mung Bean and Red Bean Porridge

Ingredients: 20g mung bean, 20g red bean, 20g japonica rice.

Method: First add 1000ml of mung bean and adzuki bean and boil. When they are slightly soft, add polished rice and cook until the rice is cooked.

Indications: Mouth and tongue ulcers, red eyes and throat, and difficulty urinating caused by summer heat and dampness.

Efficacy: Clears away heat, detoxifies, promotes diuresis and reduces swelling.

Meaning of the recipe: Mung bean clears away heat, detoxifies, relieves summer heat and is a diuretic; adzuki bean promotes diuresis and reduces swelling, detoxifies and discharges pus, and promotes bile secretion and reduces jaundice.