In general, except for patients with colds caused by heat evils, other causes of colds can drink mutton soup, but it is necessary to control the amount of consumption according to the physical condition.
Mutton, belonging to the spleen, stomach, kidney meridian. It has the effect of warming the middle and strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the yang, benefiting the qi and nourishing the blood, and can be used for eating less and regurgitating the stomach, prolonged dysentery, weak labor, lumbar and knee soreness, impotence, cold hernia, postpartum weakness and lack of qi, lack of milk and so on. Since mutton has not been found to have an effect on colds, it is usually possible to drink mutton soup with a cold.
However, because some patients with colds will be involved in the spleen and stomach, decreased appetite, abdominal discomfort, dry mouth and bitter symptoms, in order to avoid aggravating the burden on the spleen and stomach, consumption of mutton soup need to strictly control the amount of, in addition to mutton soup due to the nature of the temperature, the wind-heat colds also need to pay attention to the amount of consumption.
Sheep soup has no therapeutic effect on colds. If patients need to improve their condition, they need to be treated under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner who can recognize the evidence of their own condition.