What to eat to cure a cold and runny nose
First, the Divine Soup
Ingredients: Catnip, perilla leaves, tea leaves, brown sugar, ginger
Instructions: Place the catnip, perilla leaves, ginger, and tea leaves in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer. After 20 minutes, add brown sugar, and once dissolved, it is ready to be consumed.
Usage: Take twice daily, without limit. This method effectively induces sweating and is very effective in treating colds caused by wind and cold, as well as chills.
Second, sucking on garlic can cure a cold.
Ingredients: Raw garlic
Instructions: Peel the garlic.
Usage: Place a clove of garlic in your mouth and hold it there. Once saliva is produced, slowly swallow the saliva. Spit it out when the garlic loses its flavor. Repeat this three times to treat a cold and runny nose. Because garlic has antibacterial and disinfectant properties, this method is very effective in the early stages of a cold.
Third, hot white pepper noodle soup
Ingredients: White pepper powder, scallion whites. Noodles
Instructions: Cook a pot of hot noodle soup, then add the prepared scallion whites and white pepper powder, stir well and eat it while it's hot; then cover yourself with a cup and go to sleep, and you'll sweat.
Fourth, dried cabbage root soup
Ingredients: Dried cabbage root, brown sugar, ginger slices
Instructions: Put dried cabbage roots, brown sugar, and ginger slices into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer.
Usage: Take three times a day. It has the effects of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, and treating colds caused by wind and cold.
Fifth, rock sugar and eggs
Ingredients: Eggs, rock sugar
Instructions: Crack the eggs and crush the rock sugar; then mix the eggs and rock sugar evenly.
Usage: Dissolve in boiling water and drink before bed each day. This remedy is effective in treating colds and runny noses, and is also very effective in treating nosebleeds in children.
Sixth, add a few drops of white radish juice.
Ingredients: White radish
Instructions: Wash the white radish thoroughly; cut it into chunks and juice it using a juicer.
Usage: Drip white radish juice into the nose to treat various headaches. If taken directly, it can also treat stroke.
Seventh, Brown Sugar and Plum Soup
Ingredients: Dried plums, brown sugar
Instructions: Put the ingredients in a pot with water, then simmer to make a thick soup. Consume in two doses.
Efficacy: It has a very good effect of inducing sweating and reducing fever. This method is a good way to treat colds and runny noses.
Eighth, Scallion, Fermented Black Bean, and Yellow Wine Soup
Ingredients: whole scallions, light fermented black beans, Shaoxing wine
Instructions: Place the fermented black beans in a clay pot, then add a small bowl of water. After ten minutes, add the washed and chopped scallions to the pot. Continue to simmer for five minutes, then add Shaoxing wine and remove from heat immediately.
Efficacy: When taken while hot, it can effectively treat colds caused by wind and cold, and also has a good effect on various symptoms such as vomiting, lack of sweating, and headaches.
Ninth, Walnut, Scallion, and Ginger Tea
Ingredients: Walnuts, scallions, ginger, tea leaves
Instructions: Crush the walnut kernels, ginger, and scallion whites together, then put them into a clay pot with tea leaves, add water, and boil. Remove the dregs before consuming.
Efficacy: This method can induce sweating quickly, but be careful not to catch a chill again. It can not only treat colds but also reduce fever.
Tenth, Radish and Sugarcane Soup
Ingredients: Radish, sugarcane, honeysuckle, bamboo leaves, white sugar
Instructions: Cut the radish and sugarcane into chunks and set aside. Place them in a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and finally add honeysuckle and bamboo leaves. Simmer over low heat. Add an appropriate amount of white sugar before removing from heat, and drink it daily as a substitute for tea.
Efficacy: This method can effectively moisturize dryness and aid digestion, and has a good effect on treating colds and sore throats.
Eleventh, Honeysuckle and Hawthorn Soup
Ingredients: honeysuckle, hawthorn, honey
Instructions: Place honeysuckle and hawthorn in a clay pot, then add an appropriate amount of water; bring to a boil over high heat for three to five minutes, then stir-fry the dregs in the pot to remove them, and then remove the liquid; then add water again and boil once more, then mix the two liquids together, add honey, and it is ready to drink.
Efficacy: This method is effective in treating wind-heat type colds, and it is particularly effective for symptoms such as fever, headache, and dry mouth and throat. This method is a very good choice for treating colds and runny noses.
Twelfth, Watermelon Tomato Juice
Ingredients: Watermelon, Tomato
Instructions: Remove the watermelon flesh from the watermelon, then remove the seeds and extract the juice; blanch the tomato in boiling water, remove the skin, and then juice it as well; mix the two juices together and consume.
Efficacy: This method has the effects of relieving summer heat, detoxifying, and clearing heat, and is very effective in treating summer colds.
Thirteenth, Lychee Pork Stewed in Wine
Ingredients: Lychee pulp, Shaoxing wine
Instructions: Put the lychee pulp into a pot, add an appropriate amount of rice wine, and simmer. Then consume while hot.
Efficacy: It has a very good effect of invigorating the spirit and replenishing qi, and is very effective in treating colds caused by qi deficiency.
