Honeysuckle hawthorn soup to relieve summer colds

Source: Life Times

Hu Youzhi, attending physician of the Department of Internal Medicine of Pengzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Sichuan Province

The summer climate is hot, some people covet a moment of coolness, like to blow air conditioning, take cold baths, etc., it is easy to cause hot colds and flus. Therefore, summer is a high incidence period of heat and cold, mainly manifested as fever, dizziness or headache, sore throat, cough, sputum sticky or yellow, nasal congestion and yellow nose, dry mouth and tongue, weakness of limbs, loss of appetite and other symptoms. Here's a prescription:

Take 30 grams of honeysuckle, 20 grams of scorched hawthorn, and 100 grams of honey. Diabetics can remove honey and add 30 grams of burnt malt. Put the honeysuckle and hawthorn into the pot, add water to boil, continue to fry for 5 to 10 minutes, pour the liquid into the bowl; then add the appropriate amount of water to continue to fry for 10 minutes, filter the liquid, mix the decoction twice, put in honey, drink in fractions, 1 dose per day, 3 doses in a row. It is suitable for patients with heat and cold with yin deficiency and poor nutrition.

Honeysuckle taste sweet and cold, has the effect of clearing heat, detoxification, cool blood and wind, suitable for all kinds of carbuncle swelling poison, laryngeal paralysis, sore throat, erysipelas of the lower limbs and blood diarrhea caused by heat poisoning. Hawthorn taste sour, sweet, slightly warm, can digest the stomach, qi dissipation. Honey taste sweet flat, with tonic hypotensive, moisturizing, detoxification effect, mainly used for lung weakness cough and intestinal dry constipation, can moisturize and supplement deficiency, cough and slippery intestines. The whole party plays a role in clearing heat, detoxifying, dispelling wind and heat dissipation, moisturizing and coughing.

It should be noted that cold and flu patients can usually eat some foods with preventive effects, such as onions, garlic, vinegar, etc.; avoid greasy and indigestible foods; drink more water; and ensure adequate sleep time.

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