Don't let flu call home 10 kinds of preventative medicine

China news service on October 08, 2017

      Influenza (influenza) is an acute respiratory infection caused by influenza virus and is also a highly contagious and rapidly spreading disease. It is transmitted mainly through droplets of air, human contact or contact with contaminated goods. The typical temporary symptoms are high fever, systemic pain, pronounced fatigue and mild respiratory symptoms. Every year, influenza virus strains are in a state of variation, and prevention and control are imminent. So how to prevent influenza from the perspective of Chinese medicine? Here's a detailed overview of the daily fight against influenza.

      Hot blisters: hot blisters can improve local blood circulation, dispel cold, promote metabolism, and ultimately achieve health care and prevent colds. Soak your feet in the water for 15 minutes each day, and you can pour some vinegar into the water. Attention should be paid to bubble foot, water than feet, bubble to feet red, can effectively remove cold in the body, prevent colds, especially at the time of have already suffered discomfort feeling, just in time to get colds.

      Rinse your mouth and wash your nose in the morning

      Rinse your mouth with salt water: rinse your mouth with a light saline solution every morning and after your meal to clean up your mouth germs. When flu is popular, should pay attention to the saltwater rinse mouth, the back of the head gargle to make the saltwater fully clean the pharyngeal effect is better.

      Wash nose in the morning: many germs pass through the nose into the body, cause disease, insist morning wash nasal cavity can have better prevent a cold. Hold water in your hands, gently inhale water into the nasal cavity, stop for a moment, and then push the water out again and again 3 to 5 times.

      Massage nose groove: hands to rub, after the heat of the palm of the massage ying xiang acupuncture point (in the nasal groove, horizontal nasal outer edge) more than 10 times, can prevent colds and relieve the nasal congestion after the cold.

      Breath steam: when the initial cold, pour boiled water in the basin, take deep breathing to the heat, until the water in the basin is cool, several times a day, can alleviate the nasal congestion symptom.

      Hot air blow face: when the beginning of a cold, can use blower to blow 3 to 5 minutes of hot wind to the temple, daily several times, can reduce symptom, accelerate cure.

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      Use the oil essence: when feeling the symptom of a cold, can go to sleep at night before, use the wind oil essence daub in the temple, the hundred law hole, massage back and forth until the fever.

      Chinese traditional medicine bath: artemisia capillaris and mugwort decoction after soaking in the water, small fire, after the first fire decoction of potions to bath in the bathtub, bath time for about 15 minutes each time, have the effect of the prevention of influenza.

      White liquor: use the scraping board to dip into the liquor, gently scrape back, large vertebra and so on, until the skin redness and heat, then drink a bowl of hot ginger sugar water, about 15 minutes later, the sweat is wet. After sweat, the body is relaxed and comfortable, at this time, attention should be protected from the cold, the cold will heal quickly, and this method is best to be operated in a professional hospital.

      Indoor fumigation: in the season of high flu season, it is recommended to use either mugwort or ablaze on a weekly basis to fumigate the indoor air with the gas it burns. Studies have shown that when mugwort burns, the gas produced by the air has the effect of inhibiting the reproduction of viruses, bacteria and other microorganisms in the air. The average fumigation time is half an hour to an hour. (author luo tong is a hospital physician in jiangjin district of chongqing municipality)