APAD: Feed a cold, starve a fever

"Feed a cold, starve a fever" is an adage or an old wives' tale which attempts to instruct people how to deal with illness. The adage dates to the time of Hippocrates when fever was not well understood. His idea was the fever was the disease, and starving the sick person would starve the disease.

In 1574, John Withals published "Fasting is a great remedie of feuer" in a dictionary. The adage states that eating will help cure a cold; not eating will help cure a fever. In 2002 a small-scale study testing the accuracy of the adage concluded that different foods can provoke an immune system response in patients.

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• What to do when a cold and fever come together? ;-) -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 06:38:48

• I believeIn foodRemedy, porridge is theBest 4 me, sick or no -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 06:46:23

• no scientific proof, so called old wives tales passed from.. -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 08:03:47

• old-time superstition or similar -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 08:06:07

• Sometimes, 个人实践是检验真理的唯一标准。 -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 08:58:59

• by saying scientific it must be statistically true -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 09:59:23

• But ”点赞“ button refuses to work now, cold or fever or both? -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 06:49:38

• “点赞” button is the most annoying feature of WXC to me -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 07:02:31

• annoying or not, it's out of the cold now :-) -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 10:18:05

• Y？I like it. 忙的时候没有精力跟帖，点赞可以聊表心意 -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 13:54:00

• Great to know! I used to fast when under the weather, a -7grizzly- ♂ (140 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 08:57:33

• 这和以毒攻毒相反。How about: Feed a fever, fight a fever? 哈哈哈。 -CBA7- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 09:36:53

• 发烧也要增加营养来增强抵抗力？feel lost now.：） -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 10:22:26

• 发烧时人们会有厌食的生理反应，没准就是身体传达的信号，饿死了就不发烧了，心静自然凉吗 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 11:11:57

• It’s intuitive:) -甜虫虫- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 11:21:15

• Good to know. I used to starve both a cold and a fever~~ -moonlight7- ♂ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 11:46:40

• 真的假的？明天有考试，我正在复习。看到这个说法，把我逗笑了：）“This is what makes chicken -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 12:11:40

• soup a healthy choice for colds and fevers.” -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 12:12:26

• 我生病时爱吃酸的，辣的。 -天边一片白云- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/20/2024 postreply 17:55:44