What to do with heat and cold

Heat cold is mainly the common cold in summer. It is different from cold and influenza. It is a common cold caused by heat cold in summer. Its main symptoms are persistent fever, thirst, sore limbs, runny nose, headache and heaviness of the head. This kind of heat cold can be treated with medicine. At the same time, dietary health care is also very good. Let's eat some foods that clear the throat.

Avoid some spicy and irritating foods, and eat less sugars and some nourishing and moistening foods. The restlessness, mental emptiness and excessive tension in summer are also some of the common symptoms that cause heat colds, so you must maintain a good attitude and spiritual life in your daily life.

Chrysanthemum brain is often used as a summer vegetable in Nanjing, Jiangsu. It is cool in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effects of clearing away heat, cooling blood, dispelling summer heat, reducing fire, and clearing the head. It is most suitable for people with summer wind-heat colds, fever and dry mouth, sore throat and bitter mouth, headache and red eyes to make soup.

Olive is also known as green fruit. It has the effects of clearing the lungs, relieving the throat, and resolving phlegm. It is especially suitable for people with wind-heat colds and sore throats. People usually split 3 to 5 fresh olives and cut half to one fresh radish (either red or white skin), boil them in water and drink it as tea. The ancients praised it as "Qinglong Baihu Decoction", which has a very good therapeutic effect on sore throat caused by wind and fire, and redness and swelling in the throat.

Sweet potatoes are sweet potatoes and yams that can quench thirst and can be eaten raw or cooked. "Luchuan Materia Medica" says: "It can produce fluid and quench thirst, and treat thirst caused by fever." It is suitable for consumption when you have a wind-heat cold, fever, dry mouth, headache and thirst.

Water chestnuts are suitable for people with wind-heat cold, cough with yellow phlegm, sore throat, and dry mouth. It has the effects of clearing heat, resolving phlegm and quenching thirst. It can be eaten raw, cooked, or drunk as juice. If you boil it in water with jellyfish skin and drink it, its effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough will be better.

Pears are cool in nature and sweet in taste. They can produce body fluids, clear away heat, and resolve phlegm. They are suitable for eating when you have a wind-heat cold, fever, dry mouth, cough with yellow phlegm. According to folk custom, for those with wind-heat cold and cough, take a raw pear, wash it, cut it into pieces with the skin, add rock sugar and stew it in water.

Radish has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. It is especially suitable for people with cough and phlegm caused by wind-heat cold. People use radish (red-skinned spicy radish is better), wash it, do not peel it, cut it into thin slices, put it in a bowl, put 2 to 3 spoons of maltose on it, and leave it overnight. The radish sugar water will be dissolved, and drinking it frequently has good cough and phlegm-relieving effects.

Mung beans have the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. They are most suitable for people who suffer from wind-heat colds in the hot summer. "Bencao Huiyan" says: "Mung bean clears away summer heat, calms restlessness and heat, moistens dryness and heat, and detoxifies." People also often use mung bean soup to treat colds in hot summer days.

Sugarcane is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and can clear away heat and promote salivation. It is suitable for people with wind-heat cold who have fever, dry mouth and cough. "Sui Xi Ju Diet" believes that sugarcane can also have the effect of "relieve throat". People with sore throat caused by wind-heat cold can eat it to clear away heat and relieve throat pain.

The above is what to do with heat colds. Eating less sugars and some nourishing and moisturizing foods. The restlessness, mental emptiness and excessive tension in summer are also some of the life rules and markets that can cause heat colds. Maintaining correct living habits and having correct mental health are also the key to preventing such diseases. Therefore, when such diseases are discovered, they can be treated reasonably through diet. .