What to eat for viral colds

Viral colds include common colds, influenza, viral pharyngitis, etc. It is common for people to have colds. Nowadays, people's health awareness is improving, and the abuse of antibiotics is being effectively prevented, and more friends are more concerned about the treatment of colds with food therapy.

Drink more plain water

When the human body is infected with a virus that causes a cold, its own immune system will achieve the role of killing and discharging the virus through physiological regulation, this time to drink more water to relieve the symptoms of the cold (sore throat, cough, cough), and can promote the discharge of toxins and waste in the body.

Cabbage and radish soup

Ingredients: cabbage 500g, white radish 120g Method: Chop the cabbage and cut the radish into slices, put them into 800ml of water and boil them until 400ml, add brown sugar to serve. Once a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, 200ml each time, for three days to cure. Efficacy: white radish is cool in the stomach meridian, promote digestion, speed up gastrointestinal peristalsis and cough and phlegm, cabbage and radish soup especially for children with viral colds have a very good effect.

Shredded ginger and radish soup

Ingredients: 25g shredded ginger, 50g radish Method: Cut the ginger into shredded ginger. Cut radish into slices, add 500ml of water and cook for about 15 minutes, add brown sugar to serve. Once in the morning and once in the evening, 200ml for children, adults can increase the amount. Efficacy: ginger can warm the stomach and drive away the cold, radish can resolve phlegm and cough, ginger radish tang for viral colds have very good curative effect.

Watermelon and tomato juice

Ingredients: watermelon, tomatoes each appropriate amount Method: watermelon to remove the meat and seeds, using a juicer to beat the watermelon into a fine juice, take out and pour into a large bowl for use. Scald the tomatoes with boiling water, remove the skin and seeds, also use a juicer to make juice, add watermelon juice and stir well. Effect: Watermelon and tomato juice is suitable for cold and thirst, fever, irritability, red hot urine, poor appetite and indigestion. This diet is good for appetite, sweet and sour, and suitable for small children who do not like to take medicine.

Yinhua Hawthorn Drink

Ingredients: 30g honeysuckle, 10g hawthorn, 250g honey Method: Put honeysuckle and shakshou into a pot, boil for 3-5 minutes on high heat, then strain out the liquid. Add water again and strain out the liquid. Combine the two times and stir in honey, then take. Efficacy: This formula is suitable for viral colds with symptoms such as fever, headache, thirst and loss of appetite.

Mung bean tea drink

Ingredients: mung beans 15g, tea 6g, sugar 50g Method: Decoction of mung beans and tea leaves, add appropriate amount of sugar, once a day, for 3 days to see the effect. Efficacy: This formula is suitable for viral colds with heavy fever and light chills.

White lentil flower soup

Ingredients: 30g of white lentil flowers, 10g of fresh orange peel, 500g of snow pear, 5 jujubes Method: peel the pear, remove the core, cut into slices, with the upper pass milk casserole, add 1000ml of water, boil to 700ml to take the juice with sugar can be eaten. Effect: White lentil flowers can strengthen the spleen and stomach, eliminate summer heat and dampness, and fresh orange peel has the effect of regulating qi and dissolving phlegm. This recipe is suitable for patients with summer colds.