Sore throat in the early stages of a cold

When a person has a cold, he or she will experience various problems, such as sore throat, which is a symptom that many cold patients will experience. Sore throat requires certain treatment. Some foods, such as snow pear and white lotus porridge, ginger juice with honey, fresh lotus root and mung bean porridge, honey, ginger and radish drink, verbena honey tea, etc., can relieve the symptoms of sore throat caused by cold to a certain extent.

1. Snow Pear and White Lotus Porridge

Three snow pears, 10 grams of white lotus, and 50 grams of polished rice. Peel the snow pear, core it and cut it into thin slices. Boil the snow pear with an appropriate amount of water first, then add the white lotus. Cook until well-cooked and set aside. Cook the polished japonica rice into porridge, add the snow pear and white lotus after it is cooked and mix well; add appropriate amount of sugar and drink it when it is warm. It tastes sweet, fresh and delicious, and has the effects of clearing the throat, clearing away heat and relieving restlessness, nourishing yin and moistening dryness.

2. Ginger juice with honey

Ginger juice mixed with honey has the effects of harmonizing the stomach and moistening the lungs, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough, and dispelling cold. It is often used by the public to treat chronic cough in the elderly, or dry cough, cold cough, etc. Regarding the combination of ginger and honey to treat cough, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "for long-term cough, ginger and honey can be cooked and eaten." Ginger is pungent and warm in nature. It enters the lung, spleen, and stomach meridians. It has the effects of dispelling cold, warming the middle and stopping vomiting, eliminating phlegm and promoting diuresis, and detoxifying.

3. Fresh lotus root and mung bean porridge

50 grams of fresh lotus root, 30 grams of mung beans, 30 grams of polished rice, and appropriate amount of white sugar. First boil the mung beans until they are several times boiling, then add the glutinous rice and cook until half cooked, then add in the fresh lotus root slices and cook until the porridge is done, then add sugar and drink. It tastes sweet and delicious, and has the functions of clearing away heat and cooling blood, relieving sore throat and relieving restlessness, and promoting salivation and quenching thirst.

4. Honey, ginger and radish drink

1 pound of white radish, 30 grams of ginger, and 30 grams of honey. Peel the radish and ginger, cut them into pieces, put them into a juicer and crush them together. Add honey and you can drink it. White radish has strong anti-inflammatory and antitussive effects; this drink is also suitable for people with cough, dry and sore throat, and hoarseness caused by lung heat. Such people can also eat more fresh radishes and water chestnuts.

5. Verbena Honey Tea

Prepare verbena, mung beans and honey. Boil the mung beans in cold water until boiling. Add verbena and cook until the mung beans are soft and only a small amount of water is left. Filter out the verbena, put it in a bowl, add honey and drink it as tea.