What kind of soup is good for a cold

Cold is a relatively common disease. Although it is not a serious disease, it will still have a certain impact on a person's physical health and mental state. Of course, during a cold, patients can drink more soups that are beneficial to recovery. This can not only improve their resistance, but also assist in the treatment of the disease. So, what kind of soup is better to drink when you have a cold?

1. Ginger Grass Carp Soup

Ingredients: Grass carp slices, ginger slices, rice wine, etc. in appropriate amounts.

practice:

1. Put the pot on the fire, add half a bowl of water and bring to a boil.

2. Add grass carp slices, ginger slices and rice wine and stew for about half an hour.

3. After stewing, add some salt to season and eat while hot. Drink the soup and eat the fish.

Efficacy: This soup has the effects of relieving exterior symptoms, dispersing cold, soothing wind and opening the orifices. Suitable for colds caused by wind and cold.

2. Soybean and Coriander Soup

Ingredients: soybeans, fresh coriander, green onion, white radish, salt, etc. in appropriate amounts.

practice:

1. Wash the soybeans and soak them in clean water for about leap days. Wash the white radish, peel it, slice it, and wash the coriander and green onion.

2. Put soybeans and radishes in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 50 minutes.

3. Add coriander and scallion and cook briefly, then add salt to taste and it is ready to eat.

Efficacy: This soup has the effect of dispersing wind and cold, lowering qi and resolving phlegm, and is suitable for colds caused by wind and cold.

3. Five Gods Soup

Ingredients: 10 grams each of Schizonepeta and Perilla leaves, 6 grams of tea leaves, 10 grams of ginger, and 30 grams of brown sugar.

practice:

1. First add appropriate amount of water to brown sugar and bring to a boil.

2. Add water to boil Schizonepeta, Perilla leaves, tea leaves and ginger.

3. Pour in brown sugar water and drink it while it is hot.

Efficacy: Schizonepeta is light in nature and good at treating headaches, fever and other symptoms caused by exogenous wind and cold; Perilla leaves are pungent, warm and dispersing, and can relieve exterior symptoms and dispel cold, and open up the lungs. When combined with ginger, the dispersing and relieving exterior symptoms effect can be enhanced; tea can clear the head, and brown sugar warms the middle and dispels cold. It is suitable for the initial stage of colds when the symptoms are mild.

4. Steamed Pear Soup with Adenophora and Fritillaria

Ingredients: 2 pears, 20 grams of Adenophora Root, 12 grams of Fritillaria, 4 grams of mint, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

practice:

1. Peel and core 2 pears.

2. Fill the pear with 20 grams of Adenophora Root, 12 grams of Fritillaria thunbergii, 4 grams of mint and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

3. Then put it in a bowl, add water and steam it. Eat it in the morning and evening for several days.

Efficacy: This soup can clear phlegm, clear the lungs, moisten dryness and relieve cough. It is especially suitable for children and the elderly who have symptoms such as dry throat and cough caused by fever and damage to yin after a cold, lung heat and yellow phlegm, or thirst due to loss of body fluid, and dry and hard stools. Specially used to treat symptoms of wind-heat cold.