Here are some suggestions for vegetables that can help treat the flu at home, as shared by BS.CK2 Huynh Tan Vu, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy – Campus 3.
Onion
Onion is a familiar spice that appears in many dishes. It contains high levels of malic acid, phytic acid, and allyl sulfite. Onions also contain essential oils and alixin, a potent antibacterial agent.
Onions have a spicy taste and a neutral nature. They are non-toxic and have diuretic, antiseptic, and diaphoretic properties. Drinking onion decoction can help treat conditions such as fever, malaria, colds, headaches, and facial edema.
Ginger can also be pounded and added to boiling water for inhalation to relieve colds, headaches, and nasal congestion.
Eating hot porridge with onions can also speed up recovery.
Onion and perilla have many beneficial properties for health and support the treatment of colds and flu.
Perilla
Perilla is also a common herb used in daily life. The whole plant contains 0.5% essential oil, mainly limonene, perilla andehyde, dihydrocumin, and α-pinen. Additionally, it is rich in flavonoids (mainly luteolin and apigenin) and organic acids such as caffeic acid and rosmarinic acid…
According to traditional medicine, perilla has a spicy taste and a warm nature. It helps dispel wind and cold, relieves depression, regulates qi, soothes the throat, and stabilizes pregnancy. The whole plant can be used in various situations.
One of the simplest ways to use perilla is to treat coughs and colds, promote sweating, aid digestion, reduce pain, and detoxify by decocting 5-10 grams of fresh leaves. Additionally, combining perilla leaves with onions and mixing them into hot porridge is an effective way to relieve a cold.
Basil
Basil is a herb that contains many essential oils and anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds. This plant has a pleasant aroma and a pungent, spicy taste. The flowers of the basil plant induce sweating more effectively than the leaves.
The whole basil plant can be used fresh or charred and then utilized as a medicinal herb.
According to modern scientific research, basil has a fever-reducing, anti-inflammatory, and sedative effect when used in moderate amounts.
This herb contains antioxidants that eliminate free radicals, thanks to the phenols present in the herb’s essential oils.
In traditional medicine, basil is believed to have a pungent taste and a warm nature. It is thought to benefit the treatment of external wind-induced fever, warm the stomach and digestive system, and promote sweating.
Basil leaves can be used as a decoction to treat colds, heatstroke, headaches, and non-sweating fevers.
However, people who tend to sweat a lot should avoid using basil.
Lemon basil and basil are also effective in treating colds and flu.
Lemon Basil
Lemon basil, also known as thick-leaved basil, fragrant basil, etc., contains colein and a mildly fragrant essential oil (mainly carvacrol and thymol) and many other chemical components.
Lemon basil has a spicy, slightly sour taste and a warm nature. It helps relieve colds, clear heat, eliminate phlegm, and detoxify. It can be used to treat colds, non-sweating fevers, high fevers, coughs, sore throats, and hoarseness.
You can decoct 10-15 grams of lemon basil leaves for drinking or pound them and filter the juice for consumption.
To treat coughs, rinse fresh lemon basil leaves in salted water, then rinse them again in clean water. Place the leaves in your mouth, chew slowly, and swallow the juice.
Combining lemon basil with ingredients such as grapefruit leaves, lemongrass, eucalyptus leaves, and bamboo leaves to boil and inhale the steam is an effective way to induce sweating and treat colds.
Garlic
Garlic is a common spice and medicinal herb used in Southern folk medicine. Its benefits include treating colds, expelling roundworms, whooping cough, high blood pressure, and sciatica…
Garlic contains a small amount of iodine and essential oils. Allicin, a sulfura compound found in garlic, is a potent antibacterial agent.
Adding garlic to daily dishes enhances their flavor and helps strengthen the body’s resistance, reducing the uncomfortable symptoms of flu and col.
Ginger
Ginger helps neutralize hot and cold temperatures and has decongestant and detoxifying properties. The ginger root contains essential oils such as alpha-camphor, beta-phellandrene, and pungent substances like zingerone, shogaol, and zingerol. The active ingredient zingerone gives ginger its distinctive pungent taste.
Ginger has antipyretic, analgesic, antiemetic, antitussive, and anti-inflammatory properties and stimulates digestion.
According to traditional medicine, fresh ginger, known as ‘sheng jiang,’ has a pungent taste and a slightly warm nature. It helps warm the middle burner, disperse cold, and treat vomiting, phlegm, and external wind-cold conditions. On the other hand, dried ginger, called ‘gan jiang,’ warms the middle burner, disperses cold, invigorates the yang, and promotes blood circulation. It is used to treat cold hands and feet, abdominal pain, and small pulses…
Ginger is often used in cases of poor appetite, indigestion, vomiting, diarrhea, and wind-cold invasions.
This information is for reference only.
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