Food therapy for colds, food therapy for different types of colds

As the saying goes: It takes 7 days to cure a cold with medicine, and 7 days to cure it without medicine. The effect of medicine on treating colds is not very obvious. Medicine can only help promote the progress of colds and complete the whole cold process faster. In fact, food therapy is a good choice for treating colds.

1: Carrot and Water Chestnut Porridge: 150g carrot, 250g water chestnut, 50g rice. Slice the carrot, peel and crack the water chestnut, and cook with the rice. When the porridge is done, season with a little sugar or salt and it is ready to eat. Efficacy: It can clear away heat and digestion, relieve cough, remove phlegm, promote diuresis, moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements. It is suitable for wind-heat colds.

2: How to make Boju Congee: 9g each of mint and chrysanthemum, 6g each of mulberry leaf and bamboo leaf. Boil in water for 5 minutes, remove the residue and take the medicine juice, add 100g of polished rice to cook porridge. Efficacy: Mint is an important medicine for dispersing wind-heat. Add polished rice, chrysanthemum, mulberry leaf and bamboo leaf to make porridge, which is most suitable for those who have just caught wind-heat.

3: How to make kudzu root and fermented soybean porridge: prepare 10g kudzu root, 10g fermented soybean, 3 scallion stems, 10g ophiopogon, 50g polished rice. First, put kudzu root, fermented soybean and ophiopogon in a casserole, then add 500ml of water, boil for 5 to 10 minutes, take the juice, and cook the juice and washed polished rice together into porridge. Before it is done, wash and cut the scallion and add it. Efficacy: The ingredients in this porridge can help dispel the exterior pathogens, nourish yin and harmonize the stomach, and are suitable for patients with wind-heat cold.

4: Mulberry leaf and loquat porridge: Prepare 18g mulberry leaf, 10g loquat leaf, 100g sugar cane, 30g raw imperata root, 6g mint, and 60g polished rice. Chop the herbs into small pieces, add appropriate amount of water and boil them together. After boiling, take the juice and cook it with polished rice to make porridge. Take one dose a day for 3 consecutive days. Efficacy: This recipe has the effects of clearing heat and promoting body fluid, strengthening the lungs and relieving cough, and benefiting the stomach. It is suitable for people suffering from wind-heat.

1: Fangfeng porridge recipe: 15g of Fangfeng (available at drugstores), 2 scallions, 3 slices of ginger, 50g of rice. Cook the rice first, add Fangfeng, scallions and ginger when it is almost cooked, and add salt as needed. Efficacy: This porridge can clear away heat and dispel wind, dispel cold and relieve pain. It is suitable for symptoms such as chills and fever, joint pain, nasal congestion, heavy voice, intestinal irritation and diarrhea caused by colds.

2: How to make Nectarine Porridge: Add 9g Nectarine, 3g Mint, 9g Fermented Black Beans to water and boil. After 5 minutes of boiling, remove the residue and take the medicine juice. Add 100g glutinous rice and cook porridge. Take it twice a day while warm. Efficacy: It can induce sweating and relieve symptoms, clear away heat and relieve sore throat, reduce fever and relieve irritability. It is suitable for colds, fever and chills, headaches, sore throats, irritability, insomnia, etc.

3: How to make ginger and perilla leaf porridge: 10 grams of perilla leaf and 3 slices of ginger. Add them to the porridge after it is cooked. Then it is ready to eat. Efficacy: Ginger is the best "weapon" for fever, sneezing, sputum and other symptoms. It has the effects of expectoration, cold, qi supplementation and asthma relief. Perilla leaf also has the effect of dispersing wind and cold. It can be bought in general pharmacies. Drinking ginger and perilla leaf porridge is very effective for colds caused by wind and cold.

4: Perilla almond porridge recipe: 10g perilla leaf, 5g almond (peeled and pointed), 50g polished rice, 3 slices of ginger, 3 jujubes. Wash the polished rice and cook it into porridge. When it is almost cooked, add perilla leaf, almond, ginger and jujube, and drink the porridge while it is hot. Efficacy: Perilla leaf is pungent and warm, which can relieve the cold and dissipate wind, and can also regulate qi and relieve the stomach; ginger and jujube can harmonize the nutrient and defensive systems; almond can relieve qi and relieve cough; polished rice is sweet and flat, and can strengthen the spleen and stomach. The combination can relieve the cold and dissipate wind, harmonize the stomach, regulate qi and relieve cough.

Treat it by drinking hot porridge and covering yourself with a blanket to sweat, rather than just buying some cold medicine. Drinking more hot porridge when you have a cold can help you sweat, dissipate heat, and dispel wind and cold, which can promote the recovery of the cold. At the same time, after a cold, your appetite is poor and your gastrointestinal digestive system is not good, so drinking porridge can promote absorption.