Wind-heat cold should not eat warm and dry food.
Wind-heat cold is the name of the disease in Chinese medicine, which is caused by the evil of wind-heat that offends the surface and the loss of harmony of the lung qi. The clinical manifestations of wind-heat colds are heavy fever, slight malignant wind, sweating, sore throat, cough, sticky or yellow sputum, nasal congestion, yellow snot, and thin white and yellow moss.
Wind-heat colds are mildly cold and the fever is heavy, so you can’t eat warm and dry foods, such as mutton, dog meat, ginger, garlic, chili peppers, lychee, longan and so on. Secondly, during the medication period, the diet needs to be light, avoid greasy, spicy, stimulating food.
It is recommended that patients with symptoms of wind-heat colds should consult a professional Chinese medicine practitioner for symptomatic treatment under the guidance of diagnosis and treatment, and should not blindly use medication on their own, so as to avoid delays in their condition.