What to eat in winter cold

In the cold winter, especially in the south, the human body is vulnerable to diseases if it is not properly kept warm, and colds are one of them. The cold is a self-healing disease, in the case of no deterioration or other complications, after 1 to 2 weeks, the cold can generally be automatically cured, and if the diet is appropriate, this time can be shortened, so what is good to eat in winter cold?

Cilantro porridge

How to do: 100 grams of round-grained rice, wash it well, add water and cook the porridge, add 50 grams of chopped cooked beef, 3 grams of grated ginger, 3 grams of chopped peel and salt, add 10 grams of chopped cilantro after boiling again, stir well and eat. Effect: Coriander, also known as coriander, was brought back to China by Zhang Qian during his mission to the West in the Han Dynasty. Cilantro has the effect of eliminating food and lowering gas, generating sweat and penetrating rash. Cilantro porridge has the effect of detoxification, dispelling wind, dispersing cold, relieving pain and strengthening stomach, especially suitable for patients with wind-cold headache with indigestion symptoms.

Cabbage and brown sugar soup

How to do: Wash and slice 3 cabbage roots, 7 white onions, decoct 300 ml of soup together, add appropriate amount of brown sugar and take it while it is hot. Efficacy: cabbage is rich in calcium, crude fiber and vitamin C. It has the effect of laxity, elimination of food and gas, and stopping heat and cough. Cabbage and brown sugar soup can be drunk to generate a slight sweat, and is more effective in treating mild symptoms of wind-cold, and can be cured after several doses, especially in winter.

White radish juice

Directions: Wash the white radish, slice it thinly and drink the juice with gauze. Take 2~3 spoons of this juice 2~3 times a day. Effect: The effects of white radish are to clear heat and produce fluid, cool blood and stop bleeding, resolve phlegm and cough, eliminate food and lower gas, diuretic and detoxify, and stop thirst and disperse stasis. White radish juice can help relieve symptoms such as thirst and dry mouth, sore throat and hoarseness caused by cold.

White radish porridge

Directions: Wash and chop 500 grams of fresh radish and add it to a pot together with 100 grams of round-grained rice, add water and cook the porridge while it is hot. Take it once a day in the morning and once in the evening. Effect: White radish porridge can resolve phlegm and stop cough, eliminate food stagnation, especially suitable for the elderly and children with cough, phlegm and asthma caused by colds, food accumulation and abdominal distension and other symptoms.

Safflower and honey soup

Directions: Boil 30 grams of yellow cauliflower with 400 ml of water and mix with appropriate amount of honey, take 3 times a day. Efficacy: yellow cauliflower, also known as golden needle, has a sedative-hypnotic, antidepressant and tranquilizing effect, but fresh yellow flowers contain toxic ingredients colchicine, so cooking yellow cauliflower should be thoroughly cooked. Safflower and honey soup can treat hoarseness caused by wind-heat colds and nosebleeds, a complication of wind-heat colds.

Tomato Beef Soup

Directions: Wash and cut 250 grams of tomatoes and cut 100 grams of beef into thin slices. First, put the beef into boiling water and cook it over low heat, then pour in the tomatoes and cook them, adding seasoning to taste. Effect: Tomatoes contain a lot of fruit acids, such as malic acid and citric acid, which can promote appetite; rich in vitamin C, which can enhance immunity; tomato beef soup can strengthen the spleen and help digestion, appetite, especially for the weak, poor absorption capacity of cold patients.

Black bean and ginger soup with white onion

Directions: Take 20 grams of white onion, 10 grams of tempeh and 3 slices of ginger in decoction with water while it is hot, and lie down and cover with a quilt to sweat. Effect: White onion has the effect of sweating and relieving the symptoms, dispersing cold through Yang and detoxifying the body. Chinese medicine classical formula for treating typhoid headache is mainly suitable for patients with wind-cold and cold with symptoms of cold body and night sweat.

Pear soup with rock sugar

How to do: Take a large pear, wash and chop with skin, add rock sugar or mix with a little honey, stew, drink soup and eat pear. Efficacy: pear is cold, sweet and sour, with fresh lung, thirst, phlegm and cough, especially suitable for hot phlegm cough, dry lung cough without phlegm cold patients.

Tips

In addition, we have to eat less salt containing na, improve the content of lysozyme in saliva, protect the mucous membrane epithelial cells in the mouth and throat, so that they secrete more immunoglobulin A and interferon to deal with cold virus. Therefore, it is beneficial to control the amount of salt eaten within 5 grams per day to prevent and control colds.