The most common types of colds are wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds, and there are different dietary recommendations and therapeutic prescriptions for different types of colds. For example, for wind-cold colds, we can choose ginger and sugar leaf drink, etc. For wind-heat colds, we can choose Thornywort Porridge, etc.
1. Wind-cold cold: The dietary treatment for wind-cold cold is to relieve the symptoms with pungent warmth. Recommended ingredients include yellow wine, brown sugar, round-grained rice, scallion, edamame, and suye, etc. Recipes include ginger-sugar-suye drink, scallion- edamame and yellow wine soup, and Wu Shen Tang.
2. Wind-heat cold: The dietary treatment for wind-heat cold is to relieve the symptoms with pungent coolness. Recommended ingredients include mint, tempeh, Pueraria lobata, cranberry, round-grained rice, silver flowers, tea, rock sugar, etc. Food prescriptions include Jingwu Porridge, Pueraria lobata Porridge, cranberry Porridge, etc.
If the cold is mild and symptomatic, the application of dietary therapy can help alleviate or even cure it. If the condition is serious, it is best to go to the hospital in time for treatment. Food therapy can play a limited medicinal effect, can not replace the drug treatment of disease. After the discomfort occurs, you should consult a doctor in time and choose medication under the doctor’s guidance, not self-medication.