Can I drink chicken soup if I have a cold?

Chicken soup is a kind of food that supplements deficiency and helps healthy qi. Therefore, drinking chicken soup when you have a cold is suitable for people with deficiency syndrome and exogenous diseases, but not for people with excess syndrome and exogenous diseases. "It is reported that the new German medical journal Phoenix reported that German medical staff confirmed through research that chicken soup is a good family medicine, which can help people effectively resist colds and drive away the flu. If chicken and vegetables are cooked together, it can also play an anti-inflammatory role. The report pointed out that patients with early colds should drink as much liquid food as possible to keep their mucous membranes moist, which is beneficial to the cleaning of nasal cavity and throat. Drinking chicken soup at this time will help the excretion of the virus. " After reading this news, you may wonder: didn't Chinese medicine say that you should avoid eating when you are sick? The old man also said that you can't eat chicken if you have a cold. Is this the result of the German study wrong, or is the old people's understanding of taboos biased? Do you need to avoid eating when you are sick? Let's talk about this problem. First of all, patients should avoid improper diet when they are sick. This is a major feature of Chinese medicine treatment, and it is also a very common common sense among Chinese people. So, why should patients avoid eating? Because, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, the occurrence, development and prognosis of diseases are mainly determined by the etiology and influencing factors. Syndrome differentiation and treatment, the right medicine, mainly aimed at the cause, taboo is aimed at the factors affecting the disease and the efficacy of drugs. Therefore, if you don't avoid eating when you are sick, it may delay the recovery time, affect the curative effect of drugs, and even aggravate the condition. How to avoid eating? This is really a university question. In my opinion, taboos cannot be generalized. You can't avoid everything, you can't eat anything, you can't eat all the inappropriate food, regardless of the willy-nilly. According to the actual situation, dialectically decide the foods to avoid. Specifically, there are the following aspects for reference. First, according to the patient's physique, patients with different constitutions (the physique mentioned here is identified from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine by looking at tongue coating and pulse-cutting, such as cold and heat deficiency and excess. ) have different reactions to diseases and medication. Therefore, when determining taboo foods, we should also combine physical fitness to decide. For example, a cold can have different cold types due to different constitutions. People with strong physique can show empirical exogenous factors; People with weak constitution can be manifested as exogenous deficiency syndrome. There is a difference between these two kinds of coldness in taboo. Those with excess exogenous diseases should not eat food and drugs with tonic, while those with deficiency exogenous diseases can eat food and drugs with tonic, but they should not use food and drugs with excessive divergence. The report said that "drinking chicken soup during influenza is helpful for virus excretion", which is reasonable in the view of Chinese medicine, but not completely correct. Because there is a saying in the treatment principle of traditional Chinese medicine that "deficiency can make up for it", that is, deficiency of constitution can help healthy qi through the supplement of medicine and food, "strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil" and "eliminating evil can strengthen the body". If you are strong and supplemented with food and medicine, it will add fuel to the fire and aggravate your illness. Chicken soup is a kind of food that supplements deficiency and helps healthy qi. Therefore, drinking chicken soup when you have a cold is suitable for people with deficiency syndrome and exogenous diseases, but not for people with excess syndrome and exogenous diseases. Second, based on the nature of the disease in TCM, if your disease is a hot disease from the perspective of TCM, and it is empirical, then you should pay attention to avoid hot food and irritating food. For example, suppurative tonsillitis with fever and sore throat as the main manifestations is a kind of fever. At this time, we should try to eat less or not to eat fried food, spicy food and alcoholic beverages, otherwise it will easily lead to aggravation of the disease. Third, according to the condition, if you suffer from dyspepsia syndrome and gastrointestinal inflammation, you should pay attention to avoid high-fat, high-protein, greasy and indigestible, spicy food. For example, if you have acute gastroenteritis, you can't eat too much meat, fried food, fat and greasy things. Fourth, based on the nature of drugs, we will take some tonics or cool and detoxifying drugs in our daily health care and disease prevention. At this time, in order to better play the role of drugs, we should also pay attention to appropriate taboos. For example, when eating supplements such as ginseng, velvet antler, sea dragon, hippocampus, cordyceps, bird's nest, etc., we should avoid greasy food (such as fat meat, fried products, some dairy products, etc. ), diarrhea (such as rhubarb in medicine, senna leaf, frozen honey in food, frozen milk, etc. ), fermentation gas (such as sweets, etc.). ), and removing blood stasis (such as salvia miltiorrhiza and motherwort). For another example, if you drink some health products such as herbal tea because of the hot air, you should pay due attention to avoid spicy and irritating products, hot and dry products, fried products, shrimps and crabs, alcohol, etc., so as to avoid confrontation with drugs and fail to drink herbal tea. In fact, taboos are not the patent of Chinese medicine. Modern western medicine also advocates appropriate taboos when taking different drugs. For example, avoid drinking tea when taking ferrous sulfate preparations; When taking sulfonamides, it should not be taken with vinegar; When taking antibiotics such as tetracycline, dairy products and soy products should be avoided ... As long as you look carefully at the instructions for drug use, you can find that many drugs have similar requirements. In short, it is not only human experience, but also the actual needs of treating diseases. However, specific issues must be dialectically analyzed and implemented.