1. Immortal Porridge for Wind-Cold Cold: 100 grams of glutinous rice, 20 grams each of green onion and ginger, 30 ml of vinegar. First boil rice into porridge, then mash green onion and ginger, add to porridge, boil for 5 more minutes, then pour in vinegar, serve immediately while hot, cover up and rest to enhance medicinal effect. After 15 minutes, one feels warmth rising in the stomach, slight sweating all over the body. Take twice daily, morning and evening, continue for 4 days to cure. Promotes diaphoresis, detoxifies, dispels wind and cold. Treats initial stage of external contraction with body pain, chills, no sweat, tight pulse—very effective. Someone wrote a poem praising it: “A handful of glutinous rice boiled into porridge, seven green onions, seven slices of ginger, mixed with half a cup of vinegar, protects against cold and flu.” Note: Not suitable for wind-heat cold.
2. Carrot Soup for Sweating: Wash, chop finely, and boil into soup, drink warm. Induces sweating, relieves exterior symptoms. Treats cold with aversion to cold requiring sweating. Carrot soup induces mild and sustained sweating without excess.
3. Carp Soup for Nasal Congestion from Cold: 150 grams of carp (blue fish) meat, 25 grams of ginger slices, 100 ml of rice wine. Boil half a bowl of water, add fish slices, ginger, and rice wine, stew for about 30 minutes, add salt to taste, eat hot, then lie down covered to induce light sweat. Twice daily, avoid wind and cold. Relieves exterior cold, disperses wind, alleviates pain. Treats cold with chills, headache, fatigue, nasal obstruction.
4. Green Onion, Ginger, and Fermented Soybean for Cold: 5 green onions, 1 slice of ginger, 20 grams of fermented soybeans. Use a clay pot with one bowl of water, boil, drink hot in one go, then lie down covered to sweat. Avoid wind and cold. Detoxifies, clears exterior, promotes yang circulation. Used in early stage of cold with nasal congestion, headache, chills, no sweat.
5. Five Gods Decoction for Sweating and Exterior Relief: 10 grams each of schizonepeta and perilla leaf (available at herbal shops), 6 grams of tea leaves, 10 grams of fresh ginger, 30 grams of rock sugar. First simmer schizonepeta, perilla leaf, tea leaves, and ginger over low heat for 15–20 minutes, then add rock sugar until dissolved. Take twice daily, quantity not limited. Dispels wind-cold, relieves pain. Treats wind-cold cold with chills, body pain, no sweat. If cough and abundant phlegm present, add 10 grams of tangerine peel (double if fresh).
6. Chewing Raw Garlic for Cold: 1 clove of raw garlic (peeled). Chew garlic in mouth, swallow saliva as it forms, continue until garlic loses flavor, then spit out. Repeat with three cloves for effectiveness. Warms and releases exterior, detoxifies, kills bacteria. Used in early stage of cold with clear nasal discharge, wind-cold cough.
7. White Pepper Hot Noodles for Cold: Appropriate amounts of white pepper powder and green onion. Cook a bowl of hot noodle soup, mix in green onion and pepper powder. Eat hot, cover up and rest until sweating occurs—cured. Warms and releases exterior, removes phlegm, detoxifies. Treats cold due to wind-cold invading the surface.
8. Dried Cabbage Root Soup for Cold: 1 piece of dried cabbage root, 50 grams of red sugar, 3 slices of ginger. Boil together with water, take three times daily. Clears heat, promotes urination, relieves exterior. Treats wind-cold cold.
9. Rock Sugar and Egg for Cold: 1 egg, 30 grams of rock sugar. Break egg, mix thoroughly with crushed rock sugar. Drink before bedtime with hot water, induce light sweat. Nourishes yin, moistens dryness, clears lungs, stops cough. Treats cold with clear nasal discharge, cough, chills. Also effective for children with nosebleeds.
10. Dropping Raw Radish Juice for Headache: Wash large radish, crush, extract juice. Drop into nose to treat various headaches; drink to treat stroke. Treats cold-related headache, fiery headache, heat stroke headache, and stroke headache.
11. Red Sugar and Prune Soup for Fever: 4 prunes, 100 grams of red sugar. Boil with water into concentrated soup, divide into two doses.
Relieves exterior cold, induces sweating, reduces fever. Treats cold with fever, chills.
12. Allium and Fermented Soybean Wine Soup for Exterior Relief and Harmonization: 30 grams of whole green onion, 20 grams of fermented soybean, 50 ml of yellow wine. First place fermented soybeans in clay pot with a small bowl of water, boil for 10 minutes, then add washed and chopped green onion (with roots), continue boiling for 5 minutes. Add yellow wine, remove immediately, drink hot in one go, avoid wind and cold. Releases exterior, expels wind, dispels cold, warms center, calms reverse flow. Treats wind-cold cold with fever, headache, restlessness, no sweat, vomiting, diarrhea.
13. Walnut, Green Onion, and Ginger Tea for Cold with Fever: 25 grams each of walnut kernel, green onion, ginger, 15 grams of tea leaves. Crush walnuts, green onion, and ginger together, mix with tea leaves in a clay pot, add 1.5 bowls of water, boil, strain, drink once. Cover with blanket, rest in bed, avoid wind. Releases exterior, dispels cold, induces sweating, reduces fever. Treats cold with fever, headache, no sweat.
14. Radish and Sugarcane Soup for Fever and Sore Throat: 500 grams each of radish and sugarcane, 10 grams of honeysuckle, 5 grams of bamboo leaf, appropriate amount of sugar. Cut radish and sugarcane into chunks, add to clay pot with water, add honeysuckle and bamboo leaf, boil, drink with added sugar. Can be used as tea, several times daily. Eliminates accumulation, clears heat, moistens dryness, relieves pain. Treats cold with fever, sore throat, dry nose.
15. Honeysuckle and Hawthorn Soup for Wind-Heat Cold: 30 grams of honeysuckle, 10 grams of hawthorn, 250 grams of honey. Place honeysuckle and hawthorn in clay pot, add water, bring to boil over high heat, boil for 3–5 minutes, filter liquid into bowl. Add water again, boil once more, filter, combine both filtrates, mix with honey, stir well. Warm when taking, can be consumed anytime. Clears heat, detoxifies, disperses wind, relieves pain. Treats wind-heat cold with fever, headache, thirst.
16. Watermelon and Tomato Juice for Summer Cold: Appropriate amounts of watermelon and tomato. Remove seeds from watermelon flesh, squeeze juice through gauze. Blanch tomatoes in boiling water, peel, remove seeds, squeeze juice through gauze. Combine both juices, drink as tea. Clears heat, detoxifies, removes summer heat, resolves dampness. Treats summer cold with fever, thirst, irritability, red urine, poor appetite, indigestion.
17. Wine-Boiled Lychee Meat for Qi Deficiency Cold: 30 grams of lychee meat, appropriate amount of yellow wine. Boil lychee meat in wine, consume hot in one go. Invigorates spirit, boosts qi, eliminates stagnation. Treats qi deficiency cold. Note: According to *Continuation of Famous Medical Cases*, a patient with qi deficiency catching cold, chest discomfort, nasal blockage, was cured by this method.
18. Mung Bean Tea for Flu: 50 grams of mung beans, 5 grams of green tea, 15 grams of rock sugar. Wash mung beans, crush, mix with tea and sugar in a bowl, pour boiling water, steep for about 20 minutes, drink as tea. Clears heat, detoxifies. Treats influenza with sore throat, hot cough; also useful for flu prevention.
19. Blue Dragon and White Tiger Soup for Flu: 5 olives, 200 grams of white radish. Wash radish, cut into small pieces, cook with olives into soup, take three times daily, quantity unlimited. Clears heat, detoxifies. Treats influenza, diphtheria.
20. Reed Rhizome Soup for Influenza: 50 grams of reed rhizome, 200 grams of fresh radish, 7 green onions, 7 olives. Boil into soup, drink as tea. Clears heat, releases exterior, promotes qi movement. Prevents and treats influenza.
21. Cabbage Root and Sugar Soup for Flu: 1 cabbage root (knob), small amount of sugar. Wash cabbage root, slice, boil with one bowl of water, add sugar, take twice daily. Clears heat, detoxifies. Treats influenza with more heat than cold.
22. Vinegar Fumigation Method for Flu Prevention: Unrestricted amount of rice vinegar. Dilute with water, slowly simmer over low heat, fumigate indoors for about 1 hour. Sterilizes and disinfects. Prevents influenza, meningitis, cholecystitis.
23. Onion and Garlic Soup for Flu Prevention: 500 grams of green onion, 250 grams of garlic. Wash green onion, peel garlic, chop finely, boil with 2 liters of water, take three times daily, one cup each time. Detoxifies, kills germs, releases exterior, promotes yang. Prevents influenza.
24. External Application for Cold: 15 grams each of green onion and ginger, 3 grams of salt. Wash and crush green onion and ginger into paste, wrap in gauze, rub vigorously on chest, back, soles of feet, palms, popliteal fossa, elbow crease. Then rest in bed. Clears heat, releases exterior, promotes yang, detoxifies. Treats cold.
Note: As reported in *Intermediate Medical Journal* 1965, some patients felt sweating and fever reduction within half an hour after application, fully recovered next day. Among 107 treated cases, all improved within one or two days, usually after one application, few required two.
25. Double White Soup for Cold and Throat Disease: 2 egg whites, 4 green onions, 50 grams of maltose. First boil green onion and maltose with two cups of water until slightly boiled, pour into bowl with egg whites, stir well. Divide into two portions, drink warm. Avoid spicy and sour foods. Nourishes yin, clears heat. Treats cold with cough, hoarseness, sore throat.
26. Water Chestnut Juice for Sore Throat: Appropriate amount of water chestnuts. Wash, peel, crush, wrap in gauze, squeeze juice, rinse throat with juice, swallow slowly. Do several times daily, can be repeated. Cools blood, detoxifies, clears throat, benefits pharynx. Treats sore throat due to wind-cold or deficient fire.
27. Egg White and Sugar for Sore Throat: 2 fresh eggs, 25 grams of sugar, a few drops of sesame oil. Crack eggs, mix all ingredients thoroughly. Consume on empty stomach, finish in one serving. Soothes throat, relieves pain. Treats sore throat.
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