What food is better for wind-heat cold

In summer and autumn, people are more prone to wind-heat colds. The most common symptoms of wind-heat colds are red, swollen and painful throats, and sticky yellow sputum. If the symptoms are slightly mild, diet therapy can be used to relieve and treat them, and the effect is very good.

What to eat for wind-heat cold?

1. Water Chestnut

It is suitable for people with wind-heat cold, cough with yellow phlegm, sore throat, dry mouth and thirst. It has the effects of clearing heat, resolving phlegm and quenching thirst. It can be eaten raw, cooked, or drunk as juice. If you boil it in water with jellyfish skin and drink it, its effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough will be better.

2. Mung Beans

Mung bean itself is a traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. If you are a patient suffering from febrile diseases such as exogenous wind-heat, erysipelas, and internal heat invasion, you might as well take mung beans while taking Chinese medicine, which has a good therapeutic effect. To avoid eating mung beans that are too cold, you don’t have to drink mung bean soup. You can choose another way to eat them, which is to eat mung bean porridge.

3. Bitter Melon

Bitter melon is bitter, non-toxic, cold in nature, and enters the heart, liver, spleen, and lung meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving fatigue and clearing the mind, invigorating Qi and relieving fatigue, and benefiting the kidneys and promoting urination. If you feel hot and thirsty, or have prickly heat on your body, you can try adding bitter melon to your summer menu.

4. Tofu

Choosing high-quality protein when you have a cold can increase your body's ability to repair itself. High-quality protein includes tofu. Tofu is rich in nutrients and is known as "plant meat". Tofu tastes sweet and slightly cold, and can nourish the spleen and stomach, clear away heat and moisten dryness, promote urination, and relieve heat and toxins. Tofu can be a standalone dish, or used as the main ingredient or a side dish. It can be used in soups, fried, or stewed.

5. Winter melon

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter melon is cool in nature, sweet and light in taste, and enters the lungs, large intestine, and bladder meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, and is a good food for patients with wind-heat colds. When making winter melon soup, it is best to wash the winter melon skin and put it into the pot with the skin and seeds to cook the soup, which will have a better diuretic effect.