Clinical Manifestations of Wind-Heat Cold:
Severe body heat, slight aversion to wind and cold, insufficient sweating, headache, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, sore throat, nasal congestion, yellowish nasal discharge, thirst with desire to drink, thin white or slightly yellow tongue coating, and floating and rapid pulse.
【White Cabbage Root and Spring Onion Soup】
Ingredients: 3 white cabbage roots, 2 spring onion whites with leaves, 10 grams of reed roots.
Method: Boil the above ingredients in water for 10-15 minutes.
Efficacy: Dispels wind and heat, clears heat and dampness.
Usage: Take 1 dose daily, divide into 2 servings while hot.
【Watermelon Tomato Juice】
Ingredients: Suitable amount of watermelon, suitable amount of tomatoes.
Method: Squeeze the juice from the watermelon using a cheesecloth; blanch the tomatoes in boiling water, peel them, and squeeze the juice using a cheesecloth. Then combine the two juices and drink.
Efficacy: Clears heat and generates fluid.
Usage: 1-2 times daily, drink as a fruit juice.
【Honeysuckle Drink】
Ingredients: 30 grams of honeysuckle, 10 grams of hawthorn, 250 grams of honey.
Method: Put honeysuckle and hawthorn in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, and after 3 minutes, take the liquid. Then simmer the herbs in water again, combine the two liquids, add honey, and stir until well mixed.
Efficacy: Dispels wind and heat, clears heat and detoxifies.
Usage: Drink as desired.
【Mint Porridge】
Ingredients: 30 grams of fresh mint (10 grams if dried), 60 grams of glutinous rice, a little rock sugar.
Method: Boil the mint in water for 5 minutes, remove the dregs and take the juice. Cook the glutinous rice into porridge, add the mint juice, simmer for a while, and add rock sugar to dissolve.
Efficacy: Disperses wind and releases the exterior, clears and benefits the head.
Usage: Take warm in the morning and evening.
【Guanzhong Egg】
Ingredients: 10 grams of guanzhong, 1 egg.
Method: Put guanzhong and egg in a pot together, add 300 ml of water, cook until the egg is cooked, and remove the residue.
Efficacy: Clears heat and detoxifies.
Usage: Take once daily, drink the soup and eat the egg, continue for 5-7 days.
