🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Common dietary therapies for wind-heat cold include:
(1) Mulberry Leaf and Mint Drink: 5 grams mulberry leaf, 5 grams chrysanthemum, 3 grams mint, 30 grams bitter bamboo leaf.
Wash ingredients clean, place in a teapot, pour boiling water over them, steep for 10 minutes. Drink anytime.
This beverage both disperses exterior wind-heat and serves as a preventive tea.
(2) Honeysuckle and Mint Drink: 30 grams honeysuckle, 10 grams mint, 60 grams fresh reed root.
First boil honeysuckle and reed root in 500 ml water for 15 minutes, then add mint and boil for 3 more minutes. Strain, add appropriate sugar, and drink warm, 3–4 times daily.
This drink has strong fever-reducing effects, suitable for wind-heat cold with prominent fever, dry throat, and thirst.
(3) Kudzu Root and Fermented Soybean Porridge: 10 grams kudzu root, 10 grams fermented soybeans, 3 stalks scallions (washed), 10 grams ophiopogon, 50 grams rice.
Place kudzu root, fermented soybeans, and ophiopogon in a clay pot, add 500 ml water, bring to boil, simmer 5–10 minutes, strain. Add rice to the decoction and cook into thin porridge. Cut scallions into short segments and stir in just before serving. Consume warm. This porridge uses kudzu root, fermented soybeans, and scallions to expel pathogenic factors; ophiopogon and rice nourish yin and harmonize stomach. It effectively dispels wind without being too harsh, reduces fever without being overly strong, and nourishes without cloying—ideal for wind-heat cold.
(4) Mulberry Leaf and Loquat Porridge: 18 grams mulberry leaf, 10 grams loquat leaf, 100 grams sugarcane, 30 grams fresh reed root, 6 grams mint, 60 grams rice.
Wash and chop all herbs, add appropriate water, decoct to extract juice, then add rice and cook until porridge thickens. Consume hot, one dose daily for three consecutive days.
Mulberry leaf, reed root, and mint clear heat and generate body fluids; loquat leaf clears lung and stops cough; sugarcane and rice nourish stomach and generate fluids. Suitable for colds due to internal heat in lungs and stomach combined with external wind-heat.
(5) Sweat-Inducing Fermented Soybean Porridge: 20 grams fermented soybeans, 6 grams schizonepeta, 6 grams saposhnikovia, 3 grams gardenia, 60 grams gypsum, 3 slices ginger, 2 stalks scallions, 100 grams rice.
Boil all herbs in a clay pot until boiling, then simmer for 5–10 minutes, strain, remove residue, add rice, and cook into thin porridge.
This formula primarily acts to cool and release heat through sweating. Ideal for severe wind-heat with persistent high fever, headache without sweating, dry throat, thirst, and floating rapid pulse. Highly effective.<感冒>