Golden foods to eat when the weather turns cold

Golden foods, extremely good for health during the changing seasons, are recommended by physician Vu Quoc Trung.

These days the weather in the North is changing temperature. At the time of changing seasons, the body cannot adapt quickly and is susceptible to illness, especially children and the elderly with weak resistance.

Physician Vu Quoc Trung, Hanoi Oriental Medicine Association, said that eating enough nutrients will help the body increase its resistance to the cold environment because food is also extremely good medicine for health.

According to physician Vu Quoc Trung, in the changing seasons, getting cold can easily lead to flu, sneezing, runny nose, and cough. If more severe, it can lead to respiratory infections, pneumonia, bronchitis, etc.

Beef helps increase energy for the body.

Golden foods, extremely good for health during the changing seasons, are recommended by physician Vu Quoc Trung.

Beef

Beef contains many minerals such as protein and potassium, which are essential in the diet. Low potassium levels inhibit protein synthesis as well as growth hormone production, which helps increase resistance.

In addition, beef is rich in iron, which is an essential mineral for blood, replenishing blood for the body and preventing anemia, providing necessary energy for the body.

Goat meat

Goat meat has a sweet taste and is hot, suitable for eating in the cold season. Goat meat strengthens the yang, warms the middle burner, and calms the mind. If you continuously eat 30-40g/day of dishes made from goat meat, you can cure weakness, back pain, poor yang, blood deficiency, excessive sweating, and increase resistance.

Ginger

Ginger is effective for symptoms of respiratory tract infections and sore throats, so it is often used to treat colds. It can be used in the form of ginger porridge, hot ginger tea, or salted ginger, which has the effect of warming the body, dispelling cold, and helping to reduce phlegm in respiratory tract infections.

Ginger is effective for symptoms of respiratory infections and sore throat.

Ginger can be cooked with a little ginger to relieve colds and flu by taking 5 grams of fresh ginger, 15 grams of onion, 6 grams of perilla leaves; or 10 grams of fresh ginger, sliced, 0.5 kg of green mustard, cut into pieces, and cooked together. You can also take fresh ginger and garlic (100 grams each), wash them, slice them, and soak them in 0.5 liters of vinegar, cover tightly and soak for 30 days. When you have a cold or cough due to the change of seasons, use 2 teaspoons (10 ml) of this ginger and garlic vinegar.

Garlic

Garlic is also very effective in treating common respiratory diseases such as sore throat and bronchitis. Garlic has antibacterial and expectorant properties...

Onion

Onions help strengthen the immune system and fight against respiratory bacteria. Onions are often used in cooking to treat colds.

Perilla

Perilla has a fragrant smell, a characteristic spicy taste, and a warm nature. Perilla leaves have the effect of detoxifying, treating colds, reducing fever, headaches, coughs, asthma, etc. In particular, young perilla leaves have the most uses because at this time the active ingredients in the leaves are full, old leaves lose the active ingredients, and young leaves do not have enough active ingredients. Perilla leaves can be used to cook porridge, soup, or boiled to make water to drink.

Leaves have hot properties

During the cold season, people use purple basil leaves, lemon leaves, grapefruit, lemongrass, Vietnamese balm, piper lolot leaves, etc. to steam if they have a cold during the changing seasons. These are leaves that contain essential oils that help disinfect the respiratory tract when evaporated by heating.

Physician Vu Quoc Trung also noted that people need to keep their bodies warm when the weather is getting cold like now, so that the cold wind does not invade the body and cause the above diseases. Wear a mask when going out, and wear socks at night to sleep to protect the Yongquan and Qinian points (cold will cause insomnia); Cover your stomach with a warm blanket to avoid diarrhea...

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