Cold is a common respiratory infectious disease caused by various viruses, especially during sudden climate changes in winter and spring seasons. Although the disease is mild, its incidence rate is high. If it is not prevented and treated in time, it can develop into a more serious respiratory disease and cause or aggravate the original chronic disease. Therefore, it should not be underestimated. Today, let's learn together how traditional Chinese medicine treats colds.
1、 Tonic Diet for Treating Cold
1. Ginger Shredded Radish Soup
Ginger Shredded Radish Soup is mainly composed of ginger and radish. Ginger is slightly warm and tastes pungent. It can return to the spleen, lung and stomach meridians, and can relieve external cold, warm the middle and stop vomiting. Carrots have a pungent and sweet taste, which can dispel evil heat and disperse blood stasis. Therefore, ginger and radish soup has the effects of dispelling wind, dispelling cold, warming the middle, and stopping nausea.
Suitable crowd: people with exogenous cold
taboo crowd: people with yin deficiency and internal heat
Not suitable for eating together: wine (ginger and radish soup, wine are both warm in nature, if eaten together, it may cause fire)
2. Onion white Congee
Onion white Congee is mainly Congee made from onion white, rice, etc. Onion white is the bulb near the root of lily plant onion, with spicy taste and warm nature. The onion white Congee has the functions of sweating, relieving the exterior and supplementing nutrition.
Suitable for: the general population
Contraindications: those with superficial deficiency and excessive sweating
2. Dialectical treatment for treating colds
1. Wind cold cold cold: symptoms are mostly severe cold aversion, mild fever, no sweating, nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat, thin and white coating, and floating and tight pulse. Commonly used traditional Chinese patent medicines and simple preparations include Ganmao Qingre Granule, Zhengchaihu Drink Granule, Jiuwei Qianghuo Granule, etc.
2. Wind heat cold: The symptoms are often severe fever, mild aversion to cold, sweating, sore throat, nasal congestion, yellow runny nose, thirst, thin yellow coating, and floating pulse. Commonly used traditional Chinese patent medicines and simple preparations include Banlangen granules, Xiasangju granules, Yinqiao detoxification granules, etc.
3. Heat dampness cold: The symptoms are mostly fever, heavy head, chest tightness, nausea, thick and greasy coating, and wet pulse. The commonly used traditional Chinese patent medicines and simple preparations includes Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, Baoji Pill, etc.
4. Chinese herbal tea drinks: Chinese herbal tea drinks are one of the commonly used methods in traditional Chinese medicine for treating colds. According to one's own constitution and type of cold, one can choose suitable Chinese herbal tea, such as ginger brown sugar tea, honeysuckle tea, mint tea, etc.
3、 External application method for treating colds with traditional Chinese medicine
1. Rub the Yingxiang acupoint. Before going to bed every morning or at night, use both hands to rub the Yingxiang acupoint on both sides of the nose repeatedly 100-200 times, causing local fever. Rubbing this acupoint has the effect of dispersing wind and promoting lung function.
2. Take a sitting or supine position for bathing, place your palm on your face, and rub it up and down 100 times to make your cheeks flush and warm. The head and face are the meeting of various yang, and massage is beneficial for regulating the three yang meridians and strengthening the function of external defense.
3. Rub the wind pit to take a sitting position, hold your head with both hands, and use your thumbs to rub and press the wind pit hole, preferably with a sour and swollen texture. Operate for about 2 minutes. Fengchi is a key acupoint for dispelling wind throughout the body. Taking it can dispel wind, unblock meridians, and dispel external pathogens.
4. Rub the spring and take a sitting position. Rub the small fish's feet against the spring hole on the soles of the feet for about I minutes each time, creating a local heat sensation that spreads upwards along the soles of the feet. Rubbing the gushing spring can regulate the kidneys, reduce turbidity, and strengthen the foundation.
5. Massage Hegu acupoint: located at the tiger mouth on the back of the hand. Massage can dispel wind and relieve external pressure, promote blood circulation and unblock meridians, alleviate symptoms such as dizziness, swelling, and nasal congestion.
6. Massage the temples: located between the eyebrows and the outer canthus, about one horizontal finger behind the concave area. Massage can assist in dispelling wind and relieving symptoms such as headaches.
7. Massage Yongquan acupoint: located in the depression of the foot, massage can relieve wind and meridians, and dissipate heat.
In daily life, it is necessary to strengthen exercise, adjust clothes in a timely manner, and keep warm and protected from the cold. Pay attention to personal hygiene, maintain ventilation, avoid crowded public places, and prevent cross infection. Take appropriate rest, drink plenty of warm water, have a light diet, strengthen observation, pay attention to physical changes, and prevent colds.