Keep warm in winter to prevent colds

　　Entering the cold winter, the temperature will rise and fall, and the weather will also change. It is either snowing or windy. The wind will hurt your face deeply. Even if you wear thick clothes, your hands and feet will still feel cold, because many people will cough and runny nose. Regarding colds, Chinese medicine believes that cold evil can easily damage a person's yang energy and easily lead to colds. Therefore, we should keep warm and prevent colds in our daily lives.

　　Medicines can treat colds, but relevant experts say that taking medicines is not helpful when the cold is not very serious. Traditional Chinese medicine and dietary therapy are a good method. The medical and health-preserving effects of porridge have always been valued by people. It has developed from a simple way to satisfy hunger to a means of preventing and treating diseases. It plays a certain role in preventing and treating diseases, enhancing physical fitness, and prolonging life. Medicinal porridge is a dietary therapy developed on the basis of porridge, which contains all the functions of porridge. The editor below will introduce several medicinal porridges that can treat colds.

　　Wind-heat cold:

　　Symptoms: Fever, pharyngeal swelling, nasal congestion, thirst, and dry stool.

　　Recommended mulberry leaf and loquat porridge: 18 grams of mulberry leaves, 10 grams of loquat leaves, 100 grams of sugar cane, 6 grams of mint, and 60 grams of rice. Wash and chop the above medicines, add an appropriate amount of water, decoct and extract the juice, add rice and cook until the porridge is thick, take it while it is hot.

　　influenza:

　　Symptoms: Acute onset, persistent high fever, severe systemic symptoms, and symptoms of nasal congestion, runny nose, and sore throat are not obvious.

　　Recommended white radish tea porridge: 100 grams of white radish, 5 grams of tea, and appropriate amount of salt. First, wash and slice the white radish, boil it until mashed, add a little salt, and make porridge. Then soak the tea leaves in boiling water for 5 minutes and pour it into the porridge. White radish can clear away heat and reduce phlegm, while tea can clear away heat from the lungs, regulate qi, stimulate appetite, relieve cough and reduce phlegm.

　　Cold and cold:

　　Symptoms: fever, sensitivity to cold, even chills, no sweat, body aches, and nasal congestion.

　　Recommended ginger and perilla leaf porridge: Ginger is the best "weapon" to deal with symptoms such as fever, sneezing, and sputum. It has the effects of eliminating phlegm, dispelling cold, replenishing qi, and relieving asthma. Perilla leaf also has the effect of dispersing wind and cold, and can be purchased in general pharmacies. The specific method is: 10 grams of perilla leaves and 3 slices of ginger. After boiling the white porridge, add it in, then open the pot and it is ready to eat.

　　Diet therapy has a very wide range of applications. It can not only prevent diseases, but also treat diseases. It is suitable for both acute diseases and chronic diseases. If you choose it reasonably and insist on eating it, you will achieve the ideal effect.