(1) Wind-cold flu

Mostly seen in winter and spring, it is caused by the external attack of wind-cold evil and the loss of lung qi. The main symptoms are severe cold, mild fever, no sweating, headache, joint pain, nasal congestion, sneezing, itchy throat, cough, sparse white sputum, thin white tongue coating, and floating tight pulse.

Pungent, warm and cold-dispersing medicines should be used to dispel wind-cold, with Ephedra, Thorax, Fenghuang, Sulphur and other cold-dispersing medicines as the main ingredients. For example, Cold and Flu Clearing Heat Punch, Nine-flavored Qiangwu Pill, Sensu Lung Pill, Tongxuan Lung Pill, Zheng Chaihu Drinking Punch, Cold and Flu Soft Capsule, and Chuanxiong Tea Mixing Pill. Among them, Wind-Cold and Cold Punch is mainly used for the initial stage of cold and flu with fever and malignant cold; Jing-Preventive Punch is mainly used for those who have severe malignant wind-cold or those who have severe wind-cold and flu; and Cold-Quenching is suitable for those who have obvious fever in the middle and late stages of wind-cold and flu.

After taking the medicine, you can drink some hot porridge or hot soup and sweat slightly to help the medicine disperse the wind-cold. Suffering from wind-cold cold can also take the prescription: 5 sections of white onion, 9 grams of tempeh, 3 slices of ginger, decoction, once a day; or 30 grams of ginger, 30 grams of brown sugar, decocted soup to be taken in three times.

(2) Wind-heat colds

Mostly seen in summer and fall, caused by external wind-heat, wind-heat evils offending the surface, lung qi disharmony. The main symptoms are severe fever, slight malignant wind-cold, headache, sore throat or swollen tonsils, nasal congestion, yellow runny nose, cough, mucous sputum or yellow sputum, thirst for drink, thin white and yellowish coating on the tongue, and floating pulse.

Treatment should be with pungent, cool and symptomatic medicines that clear away heat and promote the lungs, with chrysanthemum, mint and mulberry leaves as the main ingredients. For example, Yin Qiao Xie Tu Pill, Antelope Qiao Xie Tu Pill, Antelope Cold and Flu Tablet, Sang Ju Cold and Flu Tablet, Banlangen Punch, etc. The Chinese patent medicine can choose Feng Shuo Xie Tu Capsule with reduction. The formula can choose Yin Qiao San plus reduction, and the Chinese patent medicine can choose Shufeng Xieyue Capsules, Yin Qiao Xieyue Pills, Qing Kai Ling Oral Liquid and so on. Antelope warsiao detoxification pill is suitable for fever, sore throat, dry throat, cough symptoms; silver warsiao detoxification tablets are suitable for wind-heat colds, with sore throat, short and red urine as the main manifestation; Chaihu oral liquid is mainly used for fever-oriented people; Banlangen punch is suitable for fever, sore throat; Shuanghuanglian oral liquid, Qingfeieri detoxification oral liquid is mainly used for fever, sore throat-oriented people.

For wind-heat colds, drink plenty of water, eat a light diet, and drink radish soup or pear soup. You can also take the following prescriptions for wind-heat colds: 3 grams of mint, 30 grams of rehmannia glutinosa, 15 grams of Panax quinquefolium, and 6 grams of raw licorice, one dose daily; or 10 grams of bamboo leaves, 3 grams of mint, 9 grams of almonds, and 9 grams of forsythia, one dose daily.

(This reply was provided by He Zhichao, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University)

This is a very good question! Hot and cold colds belong to the typical traditional medicine typology of cold symptoms.

First of all, Chinese medicine believes that the source of human diseases is the "six evils", namely wind, cold, summer, dampness, dryness and heat, which originally existed in the nature of the six qi, which constitute the nature and create the heaven and earth.

As people eat five grains, the unity of heaven and man, so we also have these 6 qi in our body; usually, these 6 qi in our body, mutual checks and balances, harmonization, to maintain a healthy state of the body; and once the 6 qi imbalance, a certain qi is too prevalent, the human body will be sick.

According to Chinese medicine, wind-heat and wind-cold colds are caused by the excess of wind, which combines heat and cold to form wind-heat and wind-cold and cause people to get sick.

So, how to distinguish between wind-heat cold and wind-cold cold? Below I will analyze the difference between wind-heat cold and wind-cold cold from the symptomatic typing, clinical symptoms, transmission channels, treatment principles, and medication characteristics between them, for reference only.

Distinction 1: Different symptom types

1. Wind-heat cold symptom typing:According to Chinese medicine, wind-heat colds are caused by "wind-heat" evil qi that invades the human body.

2. Wind-cold flu syndrome typing:According to Chinese medicine, wind-cold cold is a disease caused by "wind-cold" evil qi that invades the human body.

Distinction 2: Different clinical symptoms

1. Clinical symptoms of wind-heat cold:Chinese medicine recognizes wind-heat colds asFever, bad wind, nasal congestionDry throat, sore throat, fatigue, irritability, thirst, and dry stools are the main symptoms; dry throat, sore throat, fatigue, irritability, thirst, and dry stools are the secondary symptoms.

2. Clinical symptoms of wind-cold flu:Traditional Chinese medicine recognizes wind-cold flu as the main symptom of severe cold and mild fever; no sweating, heavy nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose, itchy throat and cough as the secondary symptoms.

Distinction 3: Different routes of transmission

1. Wind-heat colds:It is mainly transmitted through the mouth and nose, and patients have significant upper respiratory symptoms at the onset of illness.

2. Wind-cold flu: Wind and cold invade the body through the mouth and nose or through the skin.

Distinction 4: Different treatment principles

1. Principles of wind-heat cold treatment:It focuses on evacuating wind-heat, clearing heat and removing toxins.

2. Principles of treatment of wind-cold flu:With pungent warmth relieving the epidermis, promoting the lungs and dispersing cold as the mainstay.

Distinction 5: Taking different medications

1. Commonly used medicines for wind-heat colds are:

(1) Sangju cold granules:Indications: Removing wind and clearing away heat, promoting the lung and relieving cough.

(2) Pills for wind-heat colds:Indications: Dispersing wind, clearing heat, inducing diuresis and detoxicating.

(3) Yin Qiao Antidote Tablets and VC Yin Qiao Tablets:Indications: Pungent and cool to penetrate the surface, clearing heat and removing toxins.

(4) Shuanghuanglian tablets/oral solution:Indications: Dispersing wind, clearing heat and removing toxins.

2. Commonly used medicines for wind-cold flu are:

(1) Wind-cold and cold granules:Indications: Sweating and symptomatic relief, dispersing wind and dispersing cold, used in treating malignant cold and fever, nasal discharge, headache and cough.

(2) Cold and Fever Granules:Indications: Dispersing wind and cold, relieving surface and clearing heat, used for headache and fever, chills and body pain, nasal discharge, cough and dry throat.

(3) Homemade ginger and brown sugar water: to expel wind-cold.

(4) Warm food diet.

Summarize: Wind-heat cold and wind-cold cold are different in symptomatology, clinical symptoms, transmission channels, treatment principles, and medication characteristics.

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To answer this question in the winter, I prefer to answer: how do you recognize the heat and cold of a cold?

This is because most colds in winter, including the now dreaded flu, are wind-cold colds. Even if there is wind-heat manifestation, it is wind-cold gradually transformed into heat, not wind-heat at the beginning.

After all the nonsense is said and done, it's important to know the cold and heat of a cold.

At the beginning of a wind-cold cold, there are the following main manifestations: fear of cold, may have a fever, even high, nasal congestion, runny nose, may have a cough, sore throat, sputum clear and thin, and may have body aches and pains.

If the heat is chemothermic, then the symptoms may still be cold fear. But at the same time there will be fever, feeling hot on its own. There will still be nasal congestion, but the nasal mucus will become thicker, cough, throat will be mainly dry and itchy, phlegm will also become thicker, and the color of the tongue will become yellow.

There are a couple of key points here:

One, fever is not necessarily heat. In fact, instead, high fevers are more likely to occur when there is a wind chill.

Second, both cold and heat may have the symptom of cold fear, but when wind-cold is present, cold fear is often predominant, and although there is a high fever, however, one does not feel feverish.

Third, sore throat is mainly cold and itchy throat is mainly hot.

Fourth, people with hot bodies are more prone to transform heat, and children are also prone to transform heat because their Yang energy is very strong.

Fifth, people with weak constitution or the elderly, it is very easy for the evil energy to directly violate the pericardium, and the condition will rapidly change and form a critical illness. It is important to pay attention to changes in the condition.

From the therapeutic point of view, cold or cold, especially when the wind-cold cold just started, it is recommended that the first ginger brown sugar water, you can add a little scallion white, cook for five or six minutes, a bowl of drink while hot, not necessarily have to sweat a lot of sweat, there is a feeling of wanting to sweat on it.

You can also use Xiao Chai Hu granules and flush them.

Scraping can also be used.

Cupping is also available.

There are many methods in Chinese medicine, the earlier the treatment the better. The picture below shows the effect of my Gua Sha for my colleague with high fever, the fever will go down soon.

The above measures can improve the symptoms of wind-cold very well, you can also take a little cold clear heat punch, note that this is for wind-cold cold cold medicine.

If the cold already has a feverish appearance, then it is recommended to use a cold medicine of the silver cocktail type, silver cocktail vitamin C tablets, silver cocktail punch, or something like that.

Such medicines are made on the basis of Yin Qiao San, which is effective against wind-heat. Of course, you can also use Sangju granules, antiviral oral solution and Shuanghuanglian.

The other thing is what I mentioned in yesterday's Q&A, make sure you rest, stay warm, isolate, and drink plenty of water.

Colds can easily deplete the body of water, and it is absolutely correct and necessary to drink plenty of water, practice.

If your condition changes, or if it is difficult to determine on your own, it is important to seek medical attention.

Dr. Qiu would like to wish all of you a healthy and happy New Year.

Hello, I am glad to answer your question. Cold cold is known as wind-cold cold, wind-cold refers to the causative factors for the wind, cold and other evils invade the human body surface and triggered; heat cold is known as wind-heat cold, the cause of the disease also refers to the wind and heat and other evils invade the human body surface and lead to. The common point of the two is the same location, both for the external evil attack on the surface of the body Weiqi mouth and nose, due to the lungs of the skin and hair, can affect the lungs, and all belong to the surface evidence, if the positive energy is sufficient to make the external evils out of the body, that is, there is a self-healing characteristics. The so-called wind-cold and wind-heat is the classification of Chinese medicine, the difference is the cause of the disease and the nature of the evil, resulting in different pathogenic mechanisms, making the two symptoms, development and regression, prevention and treatment have obvious differences.

When we have fever, nasal congestion, and runny nose in the cold and warm weather, we usually judge ourselves as having a cold. If we are cold after wearing thin clothes, manifested as fever, fear of cold (chills), nasal discharge and other symptoms, can be judged as wind-cold cold (cold cold cold); due to feel the nature of the hot and dry climate or wind-cold is not discharged from the body and into the inside of the heat, there is a higher fever, chills and fear of cold is not obvious, throat red, swollen and pus, yellow nasal discharge, can be judged as wind-heat cold (hot cold), in addition, the summer weather, the sun, long time in a hot environment, feel the summer heat also belongs to the heat cold; due to eating too much food in the summer is also a heat cold, and the heat cold, the heat cold, the heat cold, the heat cold, and the heat cold. In addition, in summer, when the weather is hot and the sun is blazing, and when you are in a hot environment for a long time, you will feel the summer heat, which also belongs to the heat cold; and when you eat too many cold drinks or continue to be in the air-conditioned room, you will easily be affected by the summer heat and dampness and cold, which can be categorized as a cold cold. Cold and flu also include cold and flu.

Wind, rain, cold and heat shall not be false, and the evil cannot hurt people alone, and those who are not sick when they meet a storm are covered with no falsehood - Huang Di Nei Jing (The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine)

Generally speaking, colds are caused by external evils, and the premise of external evils attacking the human body is that the body's positive qi (equivalent to immunity) is deficient. Therefore, colds mostly occur under the stimulation of factors such as staying up late at night, suffering from cold and high temperatures, which make the positive qi insufficient, and external evils will cause illnesses. Ancient people said that "feeling external evils, rain and cold" is a description of the cause of the disease, it is not difficult to find that the name of the cold has obvious characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine. Moreover, it is very popular because everyone will have colds many times in their life, no matter whether they are elderly or babies in swaddling clothes. Cold covers the modern medical diseases such as upper respiratory tract infection, acute pharyngitis, etc. If not properly prevented and controlled, the disease will penetrate deeper and easily cause bronchitis, pneumonia, purulent tonsillitis, and cold is also the first symptom of many serious diseases, such as leukemia and tuberculosis. Dr. Zhu feels the need to distinguish between cold and flu and hot cold similarities and differences, to help you how to minimize the occurrence of colds, the development of the specific should be how to distinguish it? Let's talk about it in detail.

★Why should colds be divided into wind-cold and wind-heat?

• This distinction is the crystallization of ancient wisdom, with theoretical guidance and practical significance. Wind-cold refers to cold and flu problems caused by wind or cold evils, and wind-heat colds are the same. The Neijing says that "heaven eats people with five qi", "nose through the weather" five qi refers to "wind, heat, humidity, dryness and cold", in fact, it is the climate of nature, the appropriate five qi is the survival conditions of all life in the natural world, once too strong five qi is the conditions for survival. Survival conditions, once too strong stimulation of the five qi will lead to disease, disease-causing five qi belongs to the evil, for example, wearing thin clothes by the cold, is the relative hypercapacity of the cold, "the lungs of the skin and hair, the opening of the orifices in the nose", stimulate the surface of the body, the nose and mouth and caused by fever and nasal congestion is theWind-cold flu;The weather is unusually hot and dry, wind-heat stimulates the muscle surface, the mouth and nose caused by fever, sore throat, dry mouth is theWind-heat cold. Please note that the two have different causes and different symptoms, so the treatment is definitely different, and of course, a clear distinction should be made. Clinically, there is also a kind of infectious cold, called seasonal cold, like this new crown pneumonia belongs to the category of seasonal cold.

★Why is wind evil present in both cold and hot colds?

• Wind is ubiquitous and can occur in any understanding, often as the boss of cold, summer, dampness, dryness and fire, leading the other evils to cause disease, familiar with theWind-cold, wind-heat, wind-dampness, wind-dryness.And good at walking movement, the "Neijing" said "wind good line and several changes", meaning that the disease is faster, the rapid onset of colds, the onset of rapid, fast onset, an hour ago is still good, suddenly feel the pain around the body on the fever, which is in line with the characteristics of the wind, there are cold and hot colds, the symptoms of a headache, pharyngeal discomfort, which is the pathogenic characteristics of the wind. This is also the pathogenic characteristic of wind.If you are injured by the wind, the upper part of the body suffers first"The head is the highest position, and the wind will easily go up. As the old saying goes, "the head is the top of the mountain, and only the wind can reach it".

The wind is the longest of all diseases - Huang Di Nei Jing (The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine)

Characteristics of cold and flu

• ①Stroke: also known as "exogenous stroke".It refers to a separate wind evil disease, the cause of the disease is the wind evil, the location of the disease is the body surface of the mouth and nose, note that this external stroke is not a stroke of cerebrovascular accidents. The human body fur muscle patrols the defense of the human body gas (Wei Qi, Wei Yang), with warm skin, regulating the role of pore opening and closing. Wind evil attack on the human body, "the wind nature of the open leakage", Wei Qi is scattered by the wind, pores open, since the sweat, afraid of the wind is obvious!The symptoms of the disease are acute. Symptoms manifestation of the onset of acute, because the wind is a yang evil, the Wei Qi injury is not serious, generally not high fever, or the patient consciously fever but body temperature is not high, uncomfortable around the body, "no wind does not make itchy", itchy nose, sneezing frequently, sweating, tongue pale, floating pulse is the wind evil drumming, slow pulse is sweating too much yin and fluid deficiencies. Sweat is yin and fluid, deficiency of fluid in the blood, after the loss of positive qi, more susceptible to wind attack. Therefore, wind injury tends to recur in people with deficiency of positive qi. Treatment is based on harmonizing Ying and Wei, and evacuating the wind.

In a stroke, Yang (Wei qi exposed to wind) is buoyant and Yin (Yin fluid) is weak; if Yang is buoyant, heat comes on its own, if Yin is weak, sweat comes out - The Treatise on Typhoid Fever

• ②Wind-cold flu:The cause of the disease is the feeling of wind and cold evil, the location of the disease in the skin, hair, mouth and nose, with the symptoms of wind and cold together to cause the disease, cold is a yin evil, easy to injure the yang qi, weiyang is cold and stagnant, Yu and fever, weiyang can't warm the skin, the emergence of obviousMalignant cold (fear of cold), this kind of cold fear of cold is generally experienced by people who feel that the sweat hairs are standing up. Cold collects and leads to stagnation, the blood is stagnant, the pain around the body, the pain is very strong, feel lying in bed do not love to get up, the pores are cold occlusion, do not love to sweat, unless you eat antipyretic drugs or else it is difficult to sweat. Lung main fur, fur by the wind and cold, affecting the lung qi declared purge, cough.

• 《Nei Jing says that "all diseases and fluids, clear and cold, all belong to the cold", so the snot of wind-cold cold is also clear snot, the floating pulse is the wind in the surface, the tight pulse is the cold stagnation, accompanied by wind manifestations.When treating wind-cold cold, the main focus is on relieving the surface and dispersing the cold and dispersing the wind. Note that if wind-cold cold is prolonged or improperly treated, the cold may turn into heat and develop into wind-heat cold. It can also cause damage to the lung qi and stagnation of fluid, resulting in the emergence of external cold and internal drinking, which is commonly seen in diseases such as capillary bronchitis in young children.

Regardless of the stroke and typhoid. All have a headache. All have fever. But injured in cold. The surface is solid without sweating. Injured in the wind. Then the table is sparse and sweating. It is the headache and fever. It is the same for typhoid. And sweating and wind. Stroke is the only one--Qing's "Typhoid Guanzhu Jie" (伤寒贯珠集)

▲Difference between Cold and Flu

• ③Summer Dampness Cold:Summer ride too much cool or long-term activities in the low-temperature air-conditioned room, some patients are due to the consumption of too many cold drinks, summer evil mixed with cold and dampness invade the body, the symptoms of cold, commonly known as gastrointestinal flu, summer is a yang evil, Yang Sheng is hot.Manifestation of fever. Cold and dampness stagnate on the body surface and in the spleen and stomach, causing no sweating, pain and drowsiness around the body, confusion, dry vomiting and nausea, diarrhea and abdominal distension, with a pale tongue with white coating and a floating tight pulse.

Because of dampness, the head is like a wrap - Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine)

• The above content is the common classification of cold colds, in order to better distinguish the hot cold, the next talk about the characteristics of the disease of the hot cold.

▲Summer-Dampness Cold Mechanism

★ Characteristics of fever and cold

• ① Wind-heat cold:The symptoms of cold and flu caused by feeling the dry and hot evil of nature, wind-heat invading the human body surface, mouth and nose, the onset of the disease is mostly due to staying up late, being anxious and on fire, drinking less water and other triggering factors, appearing wind-heat characteristics of the symptomatic manifestations of the disease, due to the wind-heat are yang evils, the heat than the wind heat is more prominent, so this evidence to the heat of the evil in the surface is the main. The heat evil violates the Wei qi, and the two yangs of Wei qi and the heat evil are stimulated by each other.The fever is obvious, the general malignant cold is light, headache, lung qi declared unfavorable, sore throat and cough, heat is easy to fry the fluid, causing dry mouth and tongue, snot color yellow, cough sputum less color yellow, some wind-heat cold patients, because of the heat of the meat rot after the emergence of tonsils pus, fever is more pronounced, the tongue is red with yellow moss is the heat of the fumigation, the pulse is floating for the wind in the surface, the pulse number for the heat of the evil persecution of the blood Wang Wangxing, to accelerate the blood run due to the.

Warmth and Evil Upwardly Received, First Offending the Lungs - Qing's Treatise on Warmth and Fever

• Note that wind-heat cold can be transformed from further aggravation of wind-cold, and specific cases can be analyzed. When treating it, the main focus is to relieve wind and clear away heat, and to relieve the surface. Wind-heat colds should be adjusted early, heat evil transmission, easy to cause bronchopneumonia, pneumonia bronchodilatation and other diseases. Need to pay attention to.
• ②Summer Heat Cold and Flu: The problem of heat cold and flu caused by the summer heat evil that invades the body's skin, hair, mouth and nose due to prolonged activities in a hot environment in summer. Summer and heat are both yang evils, and when yang flourishes, it is hot. The patient has a high fever, which is obvious, and the summer heat is ascending and dispersing, consuming fluids and yang, which makes it easy for him to sweat profusely, and his thirst is very strong. The red tongue and large pulse are all manifestations of summer heat. Attention, summer fever and cold are generally more serious, and should be treated in time, because summer is the main gas of summer, summer and heart corresponds to the summer heat is easy to disturb the heart, causing delirium, fever and convulsions and other viral encephalitis manifestations.

Because of the summer, sweating is annoying and wheezing and coughing, the body is like burnt charcoal burning, sweating and dispersing - Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine)

★ Summary of the difference between a cold and a hot cold

• Cold and heat colds are alike in that they both have superficial symptoms and can affect the lungs, with fever and headache, nasal congestion and runny nose, cough and floating pulse as the main manifestations.
• Differences: Cold colds and flu are commonly caused by wind, wind cold and summer dampness, and the cold and dampness on the surface are prominent. Those favoring wind-cold usually have no fever or slight fever, with nasal congestion and sneezing as the main symptoms. Those who favor wind-cold have heavy cold and fear of cold, and their fever is not high, with prominent symptoms of pain and tightness of the veins all over the body. Those favoring summer-dampness are mainly characterized by gastrointestinal symptoms. Comprehensive analysis shows that the temperature of cold cold is not particularly high, while the headache, body pain and lack of sweating are more obvious than that of wind-heat.
• Heat colds are common with wind-heat cold and summer-heat cold, both with obvious fever, headache, usually no cold, note that, wind-heat, if there is pharyngeal meat rot and pus, the headache is heavier than wind-cold, and the fever and chills are heavier than wind-cold and chills. Some patients are afraid to lift their headache, which is caused by wind-heat attacking upward. Note that hot colds and flu have obvious manifestations of injury to fluids, capturing the main symptoms of thirst, heartburn, sweating, yellow nasal discharge, yellow sputum, dry and sore throat, and number of pulses. It is not difficult to differentiate from cold colds.

The superficial evidence, evil qi from the outside and into the person. All wind, cold, heat, dampness, fire and dryness, and any incorrectness of the qi are also--Jingyue Quanshu (The Encyclopedia of Jingyue)

★Professional Summary

Cold flu and heat flu contain corresponding types, the overall difference is that heat flu is characterized by fever and headache, easy to appear pharyngeal redness, swelling and pus, and easy to be combined with pneumonia, encephalitis and septicemia when the treatment is not appropriate or when there is insufficient positive qi. Cold cold, fear of wind, low fever, body pain, dry and itchy throat, easy to be combined with water in the lungs, coughing and phlegm, phlegm sounding in the throat, and easy to be manifested by gastrointestinal flu after being cold are cold cold colds. The difference between the two treatments is that the cold cold is mainly to relieve the cold, the heat cold is mainly to clear the wind and heat, the specific treatment should be analyzed.

Suggestion: Clinically, cold is a common disease, most of them can be cured by themselves, pay attention to more rest, drink more water, avoid exertion, stay up late, cold and other unfavorable factors. As cold symptoms can occur in the early stages of many diseases, such as viral myocarditis, leukemia, tuberculosis, etc., if the fever and headache persist, poor mental state should seek formal treatment, please ask a professional doctor to give guidance and help.

Finally, I hope Dr. Zhu's answers are helpful!

Thanks for the invitation! First of all, it should be stated that the disease is in a constant state of flux, and sometimes there is a mixture of cold and heat. A simple cold cold has a runny nose, no thirst, chills, body pains and fever. A hot cold is characterized by dry mouth and thirst, a red, swollen, hot and sore throat, yellow tongue coating, and a cough with yellow, sticky sputum!

First of all, you need to know how "cold" comes about! Wind-cold and wind-heat are terms used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The former is commonly known as "catching a cold" and is more common in the fall and winter months, mostly caused by exertion, sudden exposure to cold winds, and lack of rest. However, it can also be caused by other factors such as allergic rhinitis.

Wind-heat colds are common in spring and summer, usually caused by temperature differences, such as outdoor temperatures of thirty-seven to eighty-eight degrees, air-conditioned rooms only a dozen degrees. People who often eat warm foods such as lamb are also prone to wind-heat colds.

After listening to this, as witty as you may come to a conclusion: occur in the fall and winter are wind-cold cold, summer is wind-heat cold!

Literally and in a basic introduction, the difference between a hot and cold wind and a cold wind is indeed the same, but ......

The real world is pretty hopeless, and you can get wind and heat in the winter!

Spring, summer, fall and winter each have their own characteristics, but the spring is often "spring cold", cold as the waxing moon, and in the fall, once the "autumn tiger" rampage, the sun is like fire is also a common thing. These two periods of time are indeed a high incidence of colds, but wind heat or wind cold is not necessarily.

In addition, northerners stay in the heating room for a long time in winter, and some southerners also choose to turn on the air conditioning warm air to keep warm. When the indoor temperature is high, the air does not circulate, and people consciously or unconsciously eat more similar hot pot and other hot and dry food, over time will appear the symptoms of wind-heat cold.

Nah, since we're talking about symptoms, Kohaku will teach you a more effective way than taking the season to correspond to the type of cold...

Remember these 9 symptoms to distinguish between wind-heat and wind-cold colds!

No1 Color of snot

Especially when children have a cold, they usually have a runny nose. A clear runny nose is a wind-cold cold; a thick runny nose, with some yellowing, is a wind-heat cold.

If the color of nasal mucus changes from clear to yellow, it may be related to other diseases such as rhinitis, and this factor should be taken into consideration during the treatment stage.

No2 Color of Sputum

Parents teach their children from an early age not to spit, but it is still important to spit because the color and texture of the phlegm can determine the type of cold.

If the phlegm is thin and white, it indicates a wind-cold cold; if the phlegm is more yellow and thick, it indicates a wind-heat cold.

No3 The color of the tongue

Patients with wind-cold colds have a thin white tongue, while those with wind-heat colds have a reddish tongue throughout and a thin yellow tongue.

No4 Is the cough severe

When you have a wind-cold cold, the cough is usually not heavy, just dry and itchy in the upper throat.

If it is a wind-heat cold, because wind-heat directly attacks the lungs, the cough wind-heat location is deeper, from the chest cavity, the sound is loud. If there is phlegm, the cough will also sound slightly dull.

No5 Soreness in voice/throat

Generally, the throat/throat does not appear red and swollen and does not hurt when you have a wind-cold;

If the throat/throat is red, swollen, and sore, and the tonsils are enlarged, it is a wind-heat cold, and the child may appear to be refusing milk and not wanting to eat.

No6 Thirst

Once you have a cold, most people receive advice to drink more hot water.

In fact, people with wind-cold colds do not usually feel thirsty/dry because they still have enough fluids. If the patient has a dry mouth and always wants to drink water, he/she has a wind-heat cold.

Regardless of the type of cold, it's right to hydrate, but in moderation.

No7 Sweating

People with wind-cold colds do not sweat easily because the coldness closes the skin's hair orifices.

Wind-heat colds are caused by wind-heat evils that force the body's fluids to evaporate and leak out, but they are often uncomfortable sweating.

No8 Gastrointestinal discomfort

Regardless of the type of cold, the body is in a state of discomfort, which can lead to gastrointestinal upset.

Wind-cold cold is more likely to cause cold pain in the epigastrium and long, clear urine, while people with wind-heat colds commonly suffer from constipation and diarrhea.

In addition, people with wind-heat colds are characterized by heavy, foul-smelling breath and yellow urine.

No9 Fever

Both types of colds may have fever, but wind-cold colds are characterized by "mild fever and severe cold" and a feeling of stiffness and pain in the head, neck and back; wind-heat colds, on the contrary, are characterized by "severe fever and mild cold" or even "no cold, but severe heat".

It is important to note that "warming up the sweat" is one of the folk tips for treating fever, which actually needs to be looked at in two ways.

If you have a wind-cold cold, it is necessary to add more clothes and blankets after drinking hot soup, so that the cold will be relieved by sweating and the cold will get better;

However, in the case of wind-heat colds, the body has already accumulated heat, "warming" is to add fuel to the fire, and become a trigger for body temperature to rise, dehydration, febrile convulsions.

All this to say, the goal is one: to distinguish the type of cold and use the right medicine!

The principle of medication for wind-cold flu is based on pungent warmth to relieve the exterior (more sweating).

These medicines are often labeled with the words "expelling wind", "dispersing cold" and "wind-cold", and common medicines include wind-cold tablets, wind-cold and cold granules, cold and flu soft capsules, etc. In less severe cases, the symptoms can be relieved by drinking ginger water and ginger porridge. In less serious cases, symptoms can be relieved by drinking ginger syrup and ginger porridge.

Wind-heat colds are treated with pungent coolness to relieve the epidermis (clearing away heat and toxins) as the principle of medication.

These medicines are often labeled with the words "clearing away heat" and "detoxifying". Common medicines include Chai Huang Tablets, Antelope Cold and Flu Tablets, Yin Qiao Tablets, Cold and Cough Granules, Banlangen Granules, Sang Ju Cold and Flu Tablets and Yin Qiao Detoxifying Tablets. A light diet and plenty of fluids are recommended for daily use.

"Colds are no stranger to us, and perhaps every family has a unique way of treating them. The cold medicines available on the market range from the once popular Banlangen to a variety of new antibiotics and antivirals, so it seems that any kind of medicine can cure a cold. However, if you ask carefully, the symptoms seem to be not the same, some people have a clear nose, some people have a yellow nose, some people have a sore throat, some people do not have a sore throat, some people have a fever, some people are lethargic. ...... In fact, there are many types of colds, for example, they can be divided into influenza and the common cold, or whether they are caused by bacteria or viruses. The most important thing to remember is that there are a lot of different types of colds. Today we would like to talk to you about how to distinguish between wind-cold and wind-heat colds from the perspective of Chinese medicine.

As the name suggests, wind-cold and wind-heat are often related to "wind". The cold north wind is wind, the warm wind in summer is also wind, and the wind blown by air-conditioners is also wind, in short, wind can quietly bring other friends such as "cold friends" or "hot friends" to invade the human body, so it will be infected with wind-heat or wind-cold. In short, wind can silently bring other friends such as "cold friends" or "hot friends" to invade the human body, so it will be infected with wind-heat or wind-cold. Then someone asked, the same wind, the same environment, we couple together with a cold why the doctor said that one of us is a wind cold cold and a wind heat cold? That's because even if the same wind, people's constitution is not the same, some people are hot and humid constitution, some are cold and so on, the wind into the human body, and sometimes have to adapt to the general environment of the human body. For example, if the cold wind enters a person with a hot constitution, it may cause a wind-heat cold. And even if it starts as a wind-cold cold, it tends to show symptoms of wind-heat cold as the body changes; if it starts as a wind-heat cold, it may also show symptoms of wind-cold cold later in the course of the disease.

Having said that, I probably know how wind-cold and wind-heat are caused, and I would like to introduce their symptoms. They can all have symptoms such as fear of cold, fever, runny nose, etc. However, wind-cold colds have "cold symptoms", such as runny nose and white tongue. However, wind-heat colds are characterized by "heat symptoms", such as runny nose, thirst, and yellow tongue coating. Another important feature of wind-heat colds is a sore throat. This feature does not require us to observe the color of the snot and the tongue coating, but the pain will remind us that it is a wind-heat cold, a hot cold, a cold, a flu, a cold. ......

After distinguishing between wind-cold and wind-heat colds, you will need to buy the right Chinese medicine for the symptoms!

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According to Chinese medicine, colds are divided into wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds, how to distinguish between these two kinds of colds? How to choose the commonly used drugs? Here is a description of each:

1. What is wind-cold flu?

Wind-cold flu is simply understood as what we often refer to as aCatching a cold or freezing in the cold.In Chinese medicine, it refers to a series of symptoms caused by "cold" invading the human body, such as chills, fever, cough, etc..The most common symptoms are a fear of cold and a runny nose, aching all over, but not dry mouth.

Commonly used medicines for wind-cold flu include: Gui Zhi Combination, Table Solid Cold Granules, Cold and Flu Clearing Granules, and Zheng Chai Hu Drinking Granules.

2. What is wind-heat cold?

A wind-heat cold is literally a manifestation caused by wind and heat invading the body at the same time, and it has the following very distinctive features:

(1) Rapid onset, rapid transmission;

(2) It is easy to wrestle with qi and blood and accumulate them into poison;

3) Mostly from the mouth and nose;

4) Easily depletes the body's fluids;

5) Mostly infectious.

These characteristics are specific to wind-heat colds, and are most simply seen in what we often refer to as theTonsillitis and other throat diseasesas well asFeeling thirsty and having a sore throat when you have a fever is mostly a wind-heat cold.

In terms of TCM diagnosis, wind-cold flu is characterized by a malignant cold and fever, aHeavy malignant cold.Wind-heat colds are characterized byHeavy fever.The malignant cold is light.

Commonly used medicines for wind-heat colds include: Yin Qiao Dui Poison Relief Pills, Sang Ju Cold Tablets, Shuang Huang Lian Oral Liquid, Antelope Cold Granules, Lianhua Qingdian Capsules.

Wind-cold and wind-heat colds are the eight principles of identification in the Introduction to Chinese Medicine.Wind-cold cold: It is caused by the external attack of wind-cold and the loss of lung qi. Symptoms can be seen: severe cold, mild fever, no sweat, headache, body pain, nasal congestion and clear runny nose, coughing and spitting thin white sputum, no thirst or thirst for hot drinks, thin white moss. The treatment should be based on pungent warmth and symptomatic relief. The mainstay of treatment is "ephedra soup (without sweating) or gui zhi soup (with sweating)".Wind-heat cold: It is caused by wind-heat evils offending the surface and the loss of harmony of lung qi. Symptoms include heavy fever, slight wind, headache, sweating, sore throat, cough, sticky or yellow sputum, nasal congestion, yellow snot, thirst, red tongue, thin white and yellow moss. Treatment should be based on pungent and cool relief of the surface. Yin Qiao San and Sang Ju Drink are often used.

common cold (medicine)与common cold (medicine)Differentiation and treatment of

Cold is a common external disease in all seasons, especially in winter and spring. Many families have proprietary Chinese medicines for treating colds, and some people take a lot of medicines for colds, but their illnesses are not alleviated. The key lies in the lack of evidence-based medication.

　According to Chinese medicine, colds are generally categorized ascommon cold (medicine)与common cold (medicine)There are two major categories. These two types of colds differ greatly in their etiology, symptoms, treatment principles and medications.

common cold (medicine)It is caused by the external attack of wind-cold and the failure of lung qi to propagate. Symptoms can be seen: severe cold, mild fever, no sweat, headache, body pain, nasal congestion and clear runny nose, coughing and spitting thin white sputum, no thirst or thirst for hot drinks, thin white moss. Treatment should be based on pungent warmth and symptomatic relief. Ephedra, thorns, fengfeng, Su Ye and other cold-dispersing medicines are often used. The representative formula is "onion and black bean soup" and "Jingfu and sepulchral powder". Chinese medicines can be used to clear heat from cold and flu, Zheng Chaihu Drinking Punch, cold and flu soft capsule, Chuanxiong Cha Zhi San, Tongxuan Lung Pill and so on. After taking the medicine, you can drink some hot porridge or hot soup and sweat slightly to help the medicine disperse the wind-cold. You can also take the prescription: 5 sections of white onion, 9 grams of tempeh, 3 slices of ginger, decoction, once a day; or 30 grams of ginger, 30 grams of brown sugar, decoction in three doses.

common cold (medicine)It is caused by wind-heat evils offending the surface and the lung qi being out of harmony. Symptoms include heavy fever, slight malignant wind, head swelling and pain, sweating, red, swollen and painful throat, cough, sticky or yellow sputum, nasal congestion and yellow snot, thirst and thirst for drink, red tongue with thin white and yellowish moss. Treatment should be based on pungent and cool relief of the surface. Chrysanthemum, mint, mulberry leaves, etc. are often used. The representative formula is "Yin Qiao San" and "Sang Ju Drink". Adult medicines can be used, such as Yin Qiao Xie Tu Pills (tablets), Antelope Qiao Xie Tu Pills, Sang Ju Cold and Flu Tablets, and Banlangen Punch. If the fever is heavy and the sore throat is obvious, you can take Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid (Punch) and Qingrejiedu Oral Liquid. These medicines have a better effect of clearing heat and detoxification. To drink more water and eat a light diet, you can drink radish soup or pear soup. You can also take the following prescriptions for wind-heat colds: 3 grams of mint, 30 grams of rehmannia, 15 grams of Panax quinquefolium, and 6 days of raw licorice for a daily dose; or 10 grams of bamboo leaves, 3 grams of mint, 9 grams of almonds, 9 grams of forsythia, and a daily dose of forsythia.

　How to tell the difference between a hot wind cold and a cold wind cold

Recently, I often hear my friends say that they have a cold, and they are drinking Banlangen, anti-viral oral solution, honeysuckle, herbal tea, etc. I usually advise my friends that they have not properly understood the difference between wind-cold and wind-heat cold. I usually advise my friends that you have not correctly distinguished between wind-cold and wind-heat colds.

Why do you say that? The weather in Guangdong has been cooling down recently, and at this time, if you get a cold, nine times out of ten, it's a wind-cold cold. It's a cold that comes from blowing wind. It usually occurs when you are not well rested, weak, underdressed, and sweating in the wind.

　Chinese medicine divides common colds into wind-cold and wind-heat colds. In fact, many friends can't tell what is wind-cold cold and what is wind-heat cold.

　Wind-cold flu, the cause of whichUsually, it is a result of exertion, lack of rest, and exposure to wind or cold. Wind-cold and cold usually occur more often in the fall and winter. Wind-cold and cold belong to the solar meridian syndrome, in which the opening of the sun is blocked.。

The characteristic symptoms are:

　* :: Strong pain in the back of the head, that is, pain in the back of the head, together with inflexibility in the rotation of the neck.

* :: Afraid of the cold and wind, usually needing to wear a lot of clothes or a big blanket to feel more comfortable

* :: The nasal mucus is clear, white or slightly yellowish. If the nose is stuffy and not runny, drink some hot boiled water and start to run clear, this is also a wind-cold cold

　* :: Tongue without moss or thin white moss

　* If you know how to take a pulse, you should be able to measure the pulse as if it were floating and tight. Floating pulse means that the Yang energy is on the surface, and it can be obtained by taking it lightly.

　　I went to the drugstore and was surprised that I could not find any suitable proprietary Chinese medicine for treating wind-cold flu. Treatment of wind-cold and coldThe key is that you need to sweat a little (TCM calls it pungent warmth to relieve the epidermis), and there are many ways to do this, including saunas, soaking your feet in hot water (preferably with a bit of wine), playing a game of basketball (if you still have the strength), covering up with two layers of quilts, drinking ginger syrup, drinking ginger congee, and eating a hot spicy hot pot, among other things. The main treatment for wind-cold cold is Gui Zhi Tang, the first formula of Typhoid, also known as the King of Harmonizers (Ephedra Tang is also the main treatment for wind-cold cold, but it is used with caution in the south).

Below I will transcribe the formula for the grouping of Gui Zhi Tang, so that those who are interested can write it down for their own use.

　Gui Zhi 10g Bai Shao 10g 炙甘草 6g ginger 3 slices red dates 6 pieces A very simple formula, but only two or three dollars. Master said that once you learn Gui Zhi Tang, you will learn how to prescribe and treat diseases, so it is really worth studying.

Wind-heat colds, the cause of whichUsually it is constipation, which in many cases belongs to the Yang Ming meridian syndrome. What usually happens is that after two days of constipation, a sore throat follows for a day or two, and then the symptoms of a cold appear, which is a wind-heat cold (or it can also be an exogenous heat that first offends the lungs).Why does constipation cause colds? According to Chinese medicine, the lungs and the large intestine are mutually exclusive, and when bowel movements are not smooth, the large intestine affects the lungs, resulting in cold and flu symptoms. In the same way, the wind-cold cold is not treated in time or the treatment is not the right symptom will also cause constipation or diarrhea, in fact, the wind-cold cold diarrhea, in Chinese medicine belongs to the change of symptoms, belongs to the disease from the outside into the inside, do not casually use antidiarrheal drugs.

　Symptoms of wind-heat colds: * Sore throat, usually before cold symptoms * Phlegm usually yellow or blackish.　* Thick mucus, usually yellow * Tongue with a slight yellowish tinge or may be white, tongue is usually redder.　　* Constipation * Heat, thirst, and irritability * Pulse is usually counted or flooded, which means the pulse is faster and larger than normal.

　Once the cause of the wind-heat cold has been clarified, the treatment is simple, and in most cases it is a laxative (along with heat-removing and symptomatic medications, which usually work quickly).

There are a lot of ways to do it, drink some herbal tea; take some heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine, such as Banlangen. There are Chinese medicines such as Sanhuang tablets, Yinqiao antidote tablets + Niuhuang antidote tablets, Banlangen, etc. You can also take some oral solution of honeysuckle to treat wind-heat cold. You can also take some Jin Yin Hua Oral Liquid for wind-heat colds. The representative formula for Yangming meridian syndrome is Baihu Tang, but I don't advocate people to use it casually, it belongs to one of the fierce medicines, so I won't transcribe it here.

Finally, to clarify a few concepts that friends may be confused.　 　* Viral colds do not mean wind-heat colds. Virus is the term used in Western medicine, while Chinese medicine is more concerned with the human body. Therefore, it is incorrect for some doctors to equate viral colds with wind-heat colds.　 　* Sore throat is not the key to differentiate between a hot and cold cold. Cold and windy colds often cause a sore throat as well.　 　* Similarly, coughing and runny nose and high fever are not the key to differentiate between these two types of colds.　 　* Don't take Western medicine and Chinese medicine at the same time, they are two different treatment systems. If you have been prescribed antibiotics, you don't need to drink ginger ale. Why? Think about it, one is trying to cool down the body, and the other is trying to make the body sweat, almost the opposite, can the body stand it? This will reduce the effectiveness of both Chinese medicine and Western medicine.