Caught a cold and don't want to take medicine or get injections, but want to recover quickly? What should you eat when you have a cold? Today, I will recommend some medicinal recipes that can help you easily get rid of a cold.
1. Ginger Brown Sugar Tea
Ingredients: 9g ginger (washed and shredded), 12g brown sugar.
Method: Put ginger and brown sugar in a cup, pour boiling water over them, and drink while hot. It is recommended to lie in bed and cover yourself with a blanket to induce slight sweating after consumption.
Effect: Expels cold and warms the stomach, relieves headaches and nasal congestion.
Suitable for cold-type colds.
2. Ginger Radish Soup
Ingredients: 25g ginger, 50g radish.
Method: Shred the ginger, slice the radish, put both in a pot with enough water, and simmer for 10-15 minutes. Then add an appropriate amount of brown sugar and simmer for another 1-2 minutes. Take once daily and consume while hot.
Effect: Dispels wind, disperses cold, and relieves surface symptoms.
Suitable for cold-type colds.
3. Thin Chrysanthemum Porridge
Ingredients: 9g mint leaves, 9g chrysanthemum flowers, 6g mulberry leaves, 6g bamboo leaves, 100g glutinous rice.
Method: Boil the above ingredients in water for 5 minutes after boiling, filter out the medicinal juice, remove the residue, add 100g of glutinous rice to cook porridge, and add an appropriate amount of rock sugar. Take twice daily and induce slight sweating for best results.
Effect: Dispels wind-heat, clears the head, relieves inflammation and pain.
Suitable for wind-heat type colds.
4. Three Root Soup
Ingredients: 3 roots of Chinese cabbage, 7 roots of scallions, 15g reed roots.
Method: Boil the three ingredients in water and consume as a soup. Take once daily for 2-3 days.
Effect: Expels exterior wind, Chinese cabbage is sweet and has a cool nature, it can promote digestion, clear heat, detoxify, and stop coughing and phlegm. Reed root is sweet and has a cold nature, it can clear heat, generate body fluids, relieve irritability, and stop vomiting.
Suitable for wind-heat type colds.
5. Mung Bean and Bamboo Leaf Porridge
Ingredients: 20g mung beans, 100g glutinous rice, 10g honeysuckle dew, 10g fresh lotus leaf, 10g fresh bamboo leaf, an appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method: Wash the fresh lotus leaf and fresh bamboo leaf with clean water, boil them together, filter out the medicinal juice and remove the residue. Clean the mung beans and glutinous rice, cook them into a thin porridge, and add the honeysuckle dew and medicinal juice after boiling. Finally, add rock sugar to taste.
Effect: Clears heat, detoxifies, and relieves summer heat and dampness.
Suitable for summer heat-type colds.
Friendly reminder: If the dietary therapy does not show significant improvement after 3 days of consumption during a cold, seek timely medical attention to avoid worsening the condition.
