Patient's question:
Now I have been pregnant for nearly two months. Yesterday I had a slight cold, starting with just some nasal congestion and clear nasal discharge, but today it feels much worse. I keep sneezing and having a runny nose, and both my temples are aching. Today I dared to drink only one bag of Banlangen, but I don’t know if I can take any other medicine. Can anyone tell me? Thank you very much! Urgent! First follow-up question: Does taking Yandu, Baijiahe, etc., have side effects?Doctor's answer:
Hello, you can avoid Western medicine for cold treatment by frequently drinking chicken soup, which can enhance the body's resistance and prevent colds. You can use one young chicken, clean it, and boil it with water. When eating, add seasonings (pepper, ginger, scallions) to the chicken soup or use the soup to cook noodles.?Boil 100 grams of rice into porridge, then add two spoons of rice vinegar, a moderate amount of scallion tips and ginger, and eat it while warm. (This recipe has the effect of sweating and relieving the exterior)?
10 slices of ginger with the skin and 10 scallion heads with stems, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar, and cook with glutinous rice into porridge. Drink a bowl while warm, once a day, for several days in a row.?
3 roots of cabbage, wash and slice them, add 7 roots of scallion, decoct a bowl of soup, add an appropriate amount of sugar, and drink it while warm. Cover with a blanket and sweat to recover.?
25 grams of ginger threads and 50 grams of radish threads, add an appropriate amount of water, decoct for 15 minutes, then add a moderate amount of brown sugar and boil. Drink it while warm, cover with a blanket and sweat to recover.?
According to TCM differentiation, during pregnancy, if there is fever, slight aversion to cold, no sweat or little sweat, headache, cough, thirst or restlessness of the fetus, red edges and tips of the tongue, thin white tongue coating, it is suitable to use the following two exterior-relieving recipes with pungent and cooling properties:?
① 10g of wild chrysanthemum, use 3000ml of boiling water to steep and drink several times a day; ② 15g of burdock seeds and 50g of glutinous rice, with an appropriate amount of rock sugar. First, rinse the burdock seeds, add 300ml of water, decoct to 100ml, take the juice, add glutinous rice, and then add 400ml of water to cook into thick porridge. Take two doses a day, divided into two warm servings.?
During pregnancy, if there is high fever, thirst, shortness of breath, coughing yellow and thick sputum, or sputum with an iron rust color, it is suitable to choose dietary recipes that clear heat and ventilate the lungs:?
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