Can you eat mutton if you have a cold caused by wind-heat?

Written by Xia Min
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Updated on October 29, 2024
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Wind-heat cold is a common clinical condition, its clinical manifestations include fever, slight aversion to wind, inhibited sweating, severe headache, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, sore throat, thin white slightly yellow tongue coating, red tongue tip and sides, and a floating and rapid pulse. It is mainly caused by the evil of wind-heat. Generally, medicines that release the exterior with pungent and warm properties are used for treatment, and mutton is considered a strongly pungent and hot substance, used for nourishing kidney yang. Therefore, it is not suitable for patients with wind-heat cold to eat mutton.

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