Feeling Cold? Sore Throat?

Recommended for early symptoms of cold:

1. Grilled spring onion (Welsh onion)

Wash the onion clean and cut into 5-6 cm length.   Heat the grill/oven to 180 degrees and bake the onion until it turns brown evenly on all sides.   Peel the layer that turns brown and eat the cooked onions (inside the brown layer) with soy sauce.   You can eat it as it is or with soy sauce, mayonaisse, according to taste.   Very effective remedy for early symptoms of cough.

2. Grated Ginger and Honey Drink

Wash the ginger clean and grate it to make about 1 tablespoon (1tbsp).   Squeeze the juice of ginger and mix it with 1 tbsp of honey (adjust honey according to taste).   Then pour hot water and stir well.    Drink it warm.  Very effective remedy for those feeling cold in winter or feeling cold with fever.

3. Pear juice (Chinese pear)

Peel pear and grate it or put it in the mixer.   Pour the juice into a pan and heat it until it becomes warm enough to drink.

4. Daikon (Japanese Radish) & Spring onion Soup

Prepare chicken broth.   Cut daikon into smaller pieces that are easy to eat, also cut the spring onion into edible slices.    Boil the vegetables and put seasoning according to taste.   Salt and pepper for plain soup.   Alternatively, you can cook it with miso or soy sauce (in which case do not put salt and pepper inside).

5. Daikon (Japanese Radish) & Honey

Use about 5 cm of daikon, peel first and cut into 7mm cubes or thin slices.    Put the sliced daikon into a jar then pour honey until it covers the top.   Make sure honey is pure 100% honey not one that contains lots of sugar.   Pure honey is more effective.   Put the jar in the fridge for 3-4 hours.

How to drink? Put the mixture (2 tbsp) in a cup of straight tea or you can eat the pickled daikon just like that.   This has proven to work among various people, not just myself.

Not recommended early symptoms of cold:

1. Milk or any other dairy products, especially served cold.

2. Coffee, tea, other drinks that contain caffeine

3. Sweets, such as chocolates, cakes, or other food containing lots of sugar.

Dairy products, caffeine and high level of sugar work negatively when the body is trying to create antibodies to fight the unwanted invaders, bacteria/virus.   The activity of white blood cells is much better when the body is warm, i.e. taking food/drinks that make the body "warm" is better than taking food/drink that make the body "cold".