You can drink millet porridge if you have a cold.
Millet is a commonly used ingredient, Chinese medicine believes that millet is sweet and flat, into the kidney, spleen, stomach, with the benefit of qi, spleen, and stomach, etc., “Compendium of Materia Medica” is also recorded that millet porridge food, benefit the dantian, make up for the deficiency, open the stomach and intestines.
Chinese medicine believes that cold and flu are mostly caused by wind-cold or wind-heat evils, and during cold and flu, diet should be light, to avoid food accumulation and heat (long-term accumulation of food caused by internal heat), and closed door to keep kou (the pores of the skin are closed so that the evils can not come out of the body), and millet gruel is light and good for digestion, and has the effect of benefiting qi, tonifying the spleen and the stomach, so during cold and flu, millet gruel is good for you to drink.
In addition, for wind-cold colds, drinking warm millet porridge helps to sweat out the symptoms and promote healing. Zhang Zhongjing, in his “Treatise on Typhoid Fever”, said that after taking Gui Zhi Tang, drinking hot porridge will make the whole body sweat slightly, which will help to relieve the epidermal evils (evil qi on the surface of the muscles) and recover from cold.
During a cold, you should pay attention to a light diet, drinking millet porridge is OK, but be careful not to eat spicy and greasy food. Common cold is self-healing, usually about 7 days, if the delay is not good or the symptoms worsen, you should go to the hospital in time to avoid delaying the condition.