Generally avoid spicy (pungent) tasting foods and foods that have a very warm or hot nature such as scallions, chilies, garlic, wine and keep your intake light. Use ginger with care. It is great to help stop cough and nausea but do not overuse it because it is warm. If you have a wind-heat invasion you should also see your practitioner of oriental medicine for herbs and other treatments.

Try peppermint or chrysanthemum tea with honey. These herbs dispel heat and honey nourishes yin body fluids that may become damaged by heat and peppermint is also used for sinus congestion.

The same basic chicken soup recipe as above is used except you will not use cinnamon or chilies,  or the warming vegetables. Instead you can you cooling veggies: bokchoy, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, corn, mushroom, spinach, Swiss chard, turnip, zucchini, bamboo shoots, button mushroom, carrot, dandelion greens, potato.

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