What to eat when you have a cold cannot be generalized, you need to identify what type of infection the cold is, and decide what kind of food can be adjusted, usually from the perspective of Chinese medicine cold is divided into wind-heat type cold, wind-cold type cold and summer damp type cold. For wind-heat type cold, you can eat anti-inflammatory and antipyretic at dinner, in addition to lowering fire and dryness can be effective for wind-heat type cold, for example, you can drink winter melon soup or eat celery, lily of the valley, etc. Melons with cold nature such as cucumber and bitter melon can play a certain therapeutic role for wind-heat type cold. But for wind-cold type cold, you should drink nourishing soup when eating, you can drink pigeon soup or meat with warm tonic nature, such as beef, mutton, but try not to eat fatty meat, but mainly light. For summer dampness type cold can eat mung bean soup and so on, can play a certain role effect on the cold.