What is the dietary treatment for runny nose caused by cold?

The temperature difference is large in spring, and everyone wears clothes randomly. People with weak constitutions can easily catch a cold and have a runny nose. Generally, when a runny nose is caused by a cold, people are reluctant to take medicine, and usually seek relief and improvement through diet therapy. When you have a cold and a runny nose, your appetite is often poor, so a delicious and nutritious diet becomes even more important.

1. Dietary treatment for runny nose caused by cold

1. Brown sugar ginger soup

If you accidentally catch a cold in winter, drinking a bowl of brown sugar ginger soup can help dispel the cold. Gingerol and zingerone in ginger can induce sweating, thus promptly expelling the accumulated heat in the body. Especially old ginger with less water content will have a better effect in promoting blood circulation. Adding a little brown sugar can supplement calories. However, brown sugar ginger soup is only suitable for exogenous wind-cold, and is not suitable for people with heat cold. Moreover, ginger promotes blood circulation, so people with inflammation or bleeding symptoms should not eat it.

2. Scallion and black bean soup

Ancient Chinese medical books record that scallion and fermented black bean soup can relieve headaches and nasal congestion, and is also helpful for people with fever. The method of making it is to take the green and white part of the scallion and add it to the fermented black beans to make soup. Scallion whites have a diaphoretic effect. The nutrients in them, such as malic acid and phosphoric acid, can stimulate blood circulation, and their diaphoretic effect is faster than that of ginger soup. Fermented black beans can replenish protein in the body. Therefore, it is very helpful in treating colds.

2. Food choices for cold and runny nose

1. White radish: If you have a lot of phlegm and are prone to coughing, drink more white radish soup. Slice 250 grams of white radish, add water and boil it, then drink it while it is hot. White radish has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on respiratory diseases such as cough and sputum. Although white radish soup has no direct therapeutic effect on colds, it can relieve various discomforts caused by colds, such as nasal congestion and cough.

2. Pangdahai sugar water: To combat hoarseness, it is recommended that you go to a Chinese medicine store to buy Pangdahai, boil it with rock sugar, and drink it as a beverage, which can effectively treat hoarseness.

3. Almond powder: Almond powder has a very obvious effect of reducing phlegm and relieving cough. You can buy almond powder in the supermarket and soak it into almond paste. It can make spitting out phlegm easier and coughing less painful.

4. Honeysuckle: Honeysuckle can treat wind-heat colds and influenza. So how can we use honeysuckle to treat colds? You can drink honeysuckle porridge. Specific method: 9 grams of honeysuckle and 9 grams of light black beans, boil in water to remove the residue, add 60 grams of polished rice to cook porridge and eat. Honeysuckle is cold in nature, can clear away heat and detoxify, disperse wind-heat, and also has a good inhibitory effect on influenza virus. Light black beans are cool in nature and are often used together with honeysuckle to treat wind-heat colds. It is very suitable for patients with wind-heat cold and influenza whose main symptoms are fever, headache and sore throat.