Fever, chills, and cough are not only symptoms that can occur with a cold, but similar symptoms can be completely different. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is first necessary to distinguish whether it is wind heat or wind cold, so as to prescribe the right medicine. Chief Physician Zhao Liyun and Chief Physician Zhao Haifang from the Department of Respiratory Medicine of Guangdong Second Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine have the following recommendations:
Wind-heat cold. If it is a wind-hot sore throat, it is generally manifested as a little yellow phlegm and yellow nasal discharge, at this time, it is necessary to clear heat and detoxify.
Mulberry leaf chrysanthemum tea ingredients: 6 grams of mulberry leaves, 6 grams of chrysanthemum, appropriate amount of sugar.
Method: Pick mulberry leaves and chrysanthemums, wash them, remove impurities, put them in a large cup, add sugar, and soak them in boiling water for 3 to 5 minutes.
Comments: Clearing wind and heat, clearing the liver and eyes.
Wind chill cold. Wind and cold cough is manifested as an itchy throat, a cough will clear the nose, then it is necessary to evacuate the wind and dissipate the cold, choose Jing to prevent sepsis and disperse, and dietary therapy can be given ginger, brown sugar, etc.
Ginger brown sugar water.
Ingredients: 50 grams of brown sugar, 20 grams of ginger, 15 grams of red dates.
Method: After decocting brown sugar and jujube for 20 minutes, add ginger and cook for another 5 minutes.
Comments: Promote blood circulation and dispel blood stasis, dispel cold and warm the stomach.
Dry cough without phlegm. There is also a dry cough, dry cough, no phlegm, and the cough sound is like tearing cloth. At this time, what should be done is to moisten the lungs, choose sand cucumber wheat dong soup, and the diet therapy can be given sand cucumber, wheat winter, jade bamboo, etc.
Wheat and sand ginseng and jade bamboo soup.
Ingredients: 200 grams of sea cucumber, 50 grams of wheat winter, 500 grams of lean meat, 200 grams of polygonatum japonica.
Method: After blanching the lean meat, clean it and cut it into large pieces for later use; Soak sand cucumber, jade bamboo, and wheat winter for 10 minutes for later use; Pour eight bowls of water into the pot, pour in all the ingredients, boil over high heat until boiling, turn back to low heat, and then boil for 2 hours and add salt to taste.
Comments: Moisturizes and heats, nourishes the lungs and stomach.
Text |Reporter Zhang Hua Correspondent Li Chao Jin Xiaowei.