Four taboos for: a taboo to eat more “meat”. When you have a cold and fever, stomach peristalsis slows down, less digestive juice secretion, high protein, high-fat diet will increase the burden on the stomach and intestines, causing indigestion, so when you have a cold, you should take a light and easy to digest diet such as rice and vegetables is appropriate. Kong Wei of the respiratory department of Xiyuan Hospital, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Some people in the early stage of the cold often try to cure the cold by strenuous sports or physical labor sweating, which will only increase the body’s consumption, reduce the body’s resistance and aggravate the disease. Three avoid smoking and alcohol. Tobacco and alcohol stimulate the respiratory and digestive tract mucosa, so that the mucosa is congested and edematous, aggravating nasal congestion, runny nose, cough and other upper respiratory tract symptoms. Four avoid taking drugs indiscriminately. Cold has wind-cold, wind-heat, table deficiency, table real, etc., treatment should identify the cold and heat deficiency, under the guidance of the doctor to prescribe the right medicine, in order to be effective. ”The two best things to do are: one is to drink more water. Adequate amount of water can dilute the blood, accelerate the body’s metabolism, so that toxins can be excreted with urine as soon as possible, thus reducing the symptoms of the cold and shortening the course of the disease. Especially for patients with fever, they should drink more water to bring out the heat with sweating, so that the body temperature can come down. Secondly, it is advisable to rest well. Adequate sleep is good for improving the body’s immunity, so it is important to rest well after a cold to maintain physical strength and reduce consumption in order to facilitate the recovery of the disease.