Several teas can help you relieve the discomfort of the new crown

People infected with new crown pneumonia, usually have fever, malaise, soreness, dry cough and other symptoms, especially respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms are more obvious, the following introduces several tea drinks specially suitable for alleviating the physical discomfort of new crown patients for everyone to choose
.

Fever, cough, throat discomfort: stewed snow pear with peppercorn sugar

Ingredients: 6 peppercorns, 1 pear, 5g rock sugar, a little
water.

Practices and usage:

(1) Scrub the pears with a little salt, cut the pear lid from the top 1/3, and dig out the pulp of the bottom 2/3 of the pear;

(2) Put the prepared peppercorns and rock sugar into the hollow snow pear and add warm water; Cover the pears and place them in a saucepan in a saucepan;

(3) Simmer slowly for 20 minutes, skim the peppercorns after coming out of the pot, drink pear juice, and eat pear meat
.

Main benefits and suitable people:

It can dissipate cold and relieve pain, nourish yin and moisturize the lungs, dissolve phlegm and relieve cough, suitable for clinical new crown patients with itchy throat discomfort in the early stage of infection, dry cough or occasional white sputum, and pharyngeal foreign body sensation
.

Cough, phlegm, irritable bowel and constipation: sweet orange honey drink

Ingredients: 1 orange (rock sugar orange is best), 2 spoons of honey, 6g
of rock sugar.

Practices and usage:

(1) Cut the orange in half after scrubbing it with salt, and continuously jack the pulp with a toothpick until the pulp is crushed and accompanied by orange juice overflow;

(2) Put rock sugar into the freshly stirred pulp, put it in the steamer and cook for 10 minutes;

(3) Remove from the steamer and let it dry for 5 minutes, then add honey and stir with chopsticks
.

Main benefits and suitable people:

It can moisturize the lungs and relieve cough, clear heat and phlegm, moisturize the intestines and laxative, replenish the middle and invigorate qi, suitable for dry throat sore caused by the loss of pharyngeal fluid caused by new crown fever, as well as cough and phlegm, yellow and viscous sputum, constipation caused by large intestine deficiency, etc.
, especially suitable for elderly patients
.

Relieves the symptoms of elderly new crown patients: monk fruit mint tea

Ingredients: 1/2 monk fruit (with skin), 12g mint, 5g
white tea.

Practices and usage:

(1) It is appropriate to crush and mash the monk fruit into pieces;

(2) Wash the dandelion and mint in clean water and put them in the hot water tank (mint after the bottom);

(3) Put monk fruit and white tea into a tea cup and brew
in boiling water at 100°C.

Main benefits and suitable people:

It can dissolve phlegm and relieve cough, throat pain relief, laxation, suitable for coughing up phlegm, throat loss, as well as headache, dizziness, orbital pain and other symptoms induced by high fever, especially suitable for people with diabetes or senile constipation
after infection with new crown.

Notes:

1.
Avoid drinking tea or strong tea on an empty stomach, which will stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa, affect the normal secretion of gastric acid, lead to excessive gastric acid secretion, easy to appear indigestion and gastric ulcer
.

2.
Avoid drinking tea at meal time, or drink tea immediately before and after meals, but drink it after an hour after meals to avoid the reaction of tea polyphenols in tea with iron ions in food, and reduce the body's absorption of iron, so patients with iron deficiency anemia pay special attention
.

3.
People with kidney stones should pay attention to moderate tea drinking, tea contains a certain amount of oxalic acid, and its caffeine increases calcium ions in the blood, oxalic acid is easy to combine with calcium ions, excreted through the kidney, so it is easy to form calcium oxalate stones
in the kidney.

4.
Avoid drinking tea before going to bed, tea contains caffeine, which can stimulate the central nervous system of the brain and have a certain effect on sleep; At the same time, it can strengthen cardiac diuresis, increase the burden on the heart, and can also lead to frequent nocturia, which is not conducive to sleep
.

About the author:

Song Tian Li is a member of the Chronic Disease Management Branch of the Chinese Association of Chinese Medicine

Director of the Preventive and Sub-health Branch of the China Association for the Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Health Manager

Member of the Chronic Disease Management Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies

Preliminary review: Li Song Responsible editor: Ouyang Meihua Review: Peng Zonglu