Doctor shares 6 tips to deal with minor illnesses during Tet

Medicinal herbs from the family kitchen can help cure simple diseases such as garlic, ginger, onion, green tea...

During Tet, the cold and humid weather in the North combined with a lot of traveling and changing lifestyles lead to a number of health problems. Dr. Nguyen Minh Trang, Deputy Head of Traditional Medicine Department, Bach Mai Hospital ( Hanoi ) shares simple ways to prevent and treat diseases during Tet:

According to traditional medicine, late winter and early spring, the weather is cold and damp, people are more susceptible to illness, especially the elderly, children and people with chronic diseases. Some diseases that can be contracted when exposed to cold or sudden changes in temperature include: Facial paralysis (peripheral cranial nerve VII palsy); acute torticollis, colds, respiratory infections, stroke... Therefore, when going out, you need to wear enough warm clothes, keep your neck covered, stay at home to avoid drafts, avoid bathing too late at night, especially children and the elderly.

Tet dishes such as sausage, cold cuts, meat jelly, Chinese sausage, ham, etc. are all high in salt and fat, so they are not good for people who need a low-salt, low-fat diet and people with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia, and high blood pressure.

In addition, during Tet, changes in lifestyle, irregular meals, lots of sweets and alcohol also aggravate digestive diseases such as stomach ulcers, colitis, hemorrhoids, etc.

The spices in your kitchen cabinet that are good for your health during Tet holiday that you should eat are spicy and warm ones like pepper, ginger, galangal, and chili to warm your body.

Using honey soaked garlic helps increase resistance. Illustration: Pexels

Some effective folk remedies to prevent and treat simple diseases during Tet:

- Increase body resistance: Garlic soaked in honey mixed with warm water to drink in the morning including 1 clove of garlic + 20ml honey + 200ml boiling water; Tea, perilla, cinnamon, mint, green tea, each use 5g mixed with 200ml boiling water, steep for 5-10 minutes and drink warm; Green tea with ginger, each 10g, boil or steep with boiling water to drink during the day.

- Treat colds: Mint, Vietnamese balm, perilla, fresh onion, each about 30g, cook porridge and eat hot to sweat or boil water to drink hot.

- Respiratory tract infection, stuffy nose, runny nose: Squeeze the juice of a clove of garlic and mix it with boiled water to cool in a ratio of 1/20 and drop it into the nose. Boil a handful of perilla and mint each and drink the water instead of tea.

- Vomiting, bloating, indigestion: Boil 5 slices of ginger in warm water and drink; Crush 3-5 cloves of garlic and apply to the navel area, cover with a thin cloth to avoid burns.

- Diarrhea with tenesmus: 100g of hairy dream leaves with 1 steamed chicken egg, eat twice a day. Another way is to use 10g of each of patchouli leaves and perilla seeds, decoct and drink.

- Hangover remedy: Green bean water; rice water mixed with a little sugar; white radish juice.

Every day, you can gently steam your home with soapberry, dried grapefruit peel or essential oils such as lemongrass, cinnamon, mint, coriander, cajeput, etc. to both disinfect the air and create a pleasant fragrance to welcome guests on Tet holiday.

Improving nutrition, eating lots of dark green vegetables to supplement vitamin C, combining with physical exercise, regular physical exercise, and maintaining an optimistic and happy spirit are also ways to prevent disease.

To celebrate Tet safely and healthily, each person needs to apply a reasonable diet and rest regimen for themselves and their family members.

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