Will having a fever cause a stuffy nose?

There are many people around us who suffer from rhinitis, and the most common symptom of rhinitis is nasal congestion. This feeling of stuffiness is very uncomfortable. However, rhinitis is a disease that cannot be completely cured. You can only pay more attention to it in daily life and learn various methods to clear the nose, such as washing the nose with salt water, etc. In daily life, people may also get angry, so will getting angry cause nasal congestion?

If you experience nasal congestion after getting a fever, it is recommended that you smell some essential oil to help relieve the congestion. You can also use naphthazoline nasal drops to relieve the symptoms of nasal congestion. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables recently.

Heat-reducing foods

(1) Heat-clearing and detoxifying herbs such as chrysanthemum, cucumber, isatis root, tomato, bamboo shoots, mung bean, tofu, celery, water chestnut, water caltrop, purslane, day lily, etc., have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects and are suitable for various syndromes of excess fire.

(2) Bitter and cold foods that reduce fire include bitter melon, bitter herbs, water chestnuts, loofah, snails, eggplant, millet, buckwheat, rabbit meat, frogs, etc. They can reduce heat and fire with their cold nature and are often used for symptoms of excess fire.

(3) Foods that promote diuresis and purge heat include winter melon, watermelon, coix seed, lentil, barley, amaranth, melon, adzuki bean, black fish, duck, carp, crucian carp, loach, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, chicken gizzard lining, etc. They are suitable for various syndromes of excess fire.

(4) Vegetables that attack the excessive heat include rhubarb, anemarrhena, coptis root, scutellaria, banana, celery, potato, sesame, peach kernel, jellyfish, white radish, etc. They are suitable for treating symptoms such as short yellow urine, dry stool, dry and bitter mouth, abdominal distension and poor appetite.

(5) Foods that cool the blood and astringe the blood include lotus root, pear, water chestnut, raw earth, fungus, eel, glutinous rice, lotus root powder, shepherd's purse, corn silk, mango, eel, bamboo leaf, Imperata root, purslane, etc. They can be used for epistaxis, bloody stool, hematuria, bleeding gums and other conditions caused by blood heat.

(6) Sweet and warm fruits that can eliminate heat, such as Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, cabbage, litchi, chestnut, jujube, walnut kernel, lily, black sesame, bird's nest, royal jelly, sorghum, fennel, sword bean, mustard greens, cherry, pomegranate, and black plum, are suitable for conditions of qi deficiency and excess fire.

(7) Foods that nourish yin and reduce internal heat include soft-shelled turtle, kelp, seaweed, sea cucumber, spinach, pig blood, pig liver, brown sugar, black chicken, pumpkin, clam, white fungus, etc. They are often used to treat symptoms such as yin deficiency and excessive internal heat, fever in the five parts of the body, hot flashes, night sweats, and insomnia.

(8) Foods that nourish the internal organs and extinguish fire include black beans, yam, peanuts, milk, coix seeds, white fungus, pigeon eggs, quail, bird meat, eel, mutton, dog meat, leeks, mulberries, etc. They are suitable for various symptoms of deficiency fire caused by weak internal organs and insufficient yang energy.