Good tips to cure cold when getting wet in the rain

(Baonghean.vn) - During the rainy season, if you have to go out, when you encounter a rainstorm without wearing warm clothes or being soaked in rain for a long time, you can easily catch a cold. To cure a cold caused by being caught in the rain, there are some very simple but extremely effective folk remedies that you should know.

Symptoms of a cold are often chills down the spine, headache, fatigue, bloating, sometimes loose stools, mild fever, possibly hypoglycemia, weak limbs, sweating, unsteady legs...

Ginger tea/ Relieves cough with fresh ginger

Make a cup of ginger tea to relieve your cold when you come home from the rain.

When you have a cold, you should drink a cup of hot ginger tea to warm your body. The recipe includes: 1 fresh ginger root 15-20g, washed, sliced; 100ml water boiled for 20 minutes; add sugar and drink hot.

In addition, you can massage with crushed fresh ginger, mix with tangled hair, wrap in a thin cloth, massage (from top to bottom and avoid lymph nodes in the ear, armpits, groin, inside the elbows, and back of the knees) to quickly relieve the cold.

Steam with herbal water

Another method that is often used when you have a cold is to steam your body with bamboo leaves, grapefruit, lemongrass, chrysanthemum, and basil (about 20g of each, depending on the place, you can replace it with lemon leaves, perilla, Vietnamese balm, mint, ginger leaves, turmeric, mugwort, cajeput, eucalyptus, great compassion, camphor...). Boil water until it boils, then steam for 5-10 minutes to sweat. Then dry yourself, cover yourself with a blanket, lie down and rest, and avoid the cold wind.

You should only steam 1-2 times is enough.

According to Oriental medicine doctors, when steaming, the medicinal herbs follow the breath into the alveoli, clearing the respiratory tract, reducing secretions, reducing headaches, dizziness, etc. You should only steam 1-2 times. Steaming too much will cause loss of body fluids, loss of yang, which is not good for your health.

Cold porridge

When you have a cold, you should eat cold porridge, you will sweat quickly and recover your health quickly.

Perilla leaves are medicinal herbs that contain a lot of essential oils. When added to porridge, they will help the body warm up very quickly when having a cold.

When you get caught in the rain or soaked in rainwater, you just need to take a handful of shallots and 1/3 bowl of rice and put it in a pot to cook porridge. If you cook it with minced lean meat, it is even better. Eating hot shallot porridge is extremely effective in treating colds. People in the Central region have always used this method to treat colds. Just eat a bowl of hot shallot porridge and go to bed, after a while your body will sweat, your body will gradually warm up and avoid the coming cold or mild cold.

Just like with onion porridge, northerners often use onion and perilla porridge to treat colds. Onion and perilla are often cooked with lean meat porridge or chicken eggs. The above medicinal herbs all contain essential oils, so when eating, you should take advantage of inhaling as much of the hot steam rising from the bowl of porridge as possible. The heat of the porridge and the essential oils in perilla and onion help the body warm up very quickly.

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