Viral colds are the Western medical term for most colds that are caused by viral infections.

In Chinese medicine, it is very important to recognize cold and heat in the treatment of colds.

Wind-cold colds are characterized by a fear of cold, runny nose, coughing up clear, thin, white sputum, and generally no thirst or sore throat;

Wind-heat colds are characterized by yellow runny nose, dry mouth and sore throat.

Wind-cold cold more choose cold soft capsule, nine flavor QiangHu Pill, etc.; ingredients to ephedra, QiangHu, SuYe, FangFeng, JingWu, etc., are mainly, all belong to the relief of surface dispersal of cold;

Wind-heat cold more choose Yin Qiao detoxification pill, wind-heat cold particles, etc.; where the composition of mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, silver flowers, forsythia, peppermint, platycodon, etc. as the main ingredient, all belong to the wind clearing class of medicines.

There are also some colds that are mixed cold and heat, external cold and internal heat, such as runny nose and sore throat, you can choose ginger mulberry cold tablets or four seasons cold tablets, etc., which can relieve the surface of the cold and clear the heat.

Take Four Seasons Cold & Flu Tablets as an example, in which Perilla leaf, Thornybush, and Fenghuang can disperse cold and relieve the surface; containing Daqing leaf and forsythia can clear heat and detoxify toxins; therefore, cold and heat can be treated at the same time, which is suitable for the four seasons of cold and flu.

But after all, pCms are weak and not targeted, so if the symptoms are severe, it is better to seek medical attention.

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Colds are a common illness that occurs throughout the year, and I'm sure you're no stranger to them. Since colds can be cured on their own, many people will wait for their bodies to heal, or take some home remedies for colds, or make ginger soup to solve the problem if the condition is not serious. This involves a misunderstanding, many people think that ginger soup is a cure-all, can quickly cure a cold. However, some doctors have warned that colds are divided into various types, ginger soup does not apply to all types of colds, ginger soup drink not, or else colds can not be cured, but also may cause more trouble.

The four TCM types of colds:

In Chinese medicine, colds are categorized into four types to treat the symptoms:Wind-cold, wind-heat cold, summer-heat cold, seasonal flu。

1. Wind-cold flu:This kind of cold is attacked by wind-cold, so that the lung qi is not propagated, resulting in the main symptoms of severe cold, mild fever, head and body joints aches and pains, nasal congestion and runny nose, sneezing, itchy throat, coughing and so on. If you have a wind-cold cold, you should use pungent and warming antidotal medicines to dispel the wind-cold and disperse the wind-cold.

2. Wind-heat colds:Contrary to wind-cold cold, wind-heat cold is caused by the attack of wind-heat and the loss of harmony of waste qi. The main symptoms include severe fever, a slight aversion to wind-cold, headache, sore throat, nasal congestion, yellow runny nose, yellow sputum, and thirst for drink. Treatment should be based on clearing heat and removing toxins, pungent and cool remedies to relieve the epidermis.

3. Summer heat and cold:Mostly occurs in summer, and the patient himself has dampness and heat plus cold and get, may also be due to the consumption of cold drinks and cold fruits and melons caused by the main symptoms of cold fever, headache, headache, chest and diaphragm fullness, abdominal pain and intestinal tinnitus, vomiting and diarrhea, body fatigue and weakness, tasteless and tasteless, loss of appetite, etc., should be selected to aromatize the turbid and and in the relief of the surface of the drug.

4. Colds that travel from time to time:This is what we usually call "influenza", mostly caused by viruses, symptoms include fever, chills and chills, severe headache, limb aches and pains, fatigue and weakness, red tongue, yellow moss, floating pulse, etc. Generally, proprietary medicines for the treatment of influenza are similar to those used for the treatment of wind-heat colds, and in severe cases it is recommended that the patient be sent to the hospital in time for antipyretic and antiviral treatments. For severe cases, hospitalization is recommended for fever reduction and antiviral treatment.

There are many types of colds and they are illnesses that are usually particularly easy to catch, often caused by cold and heat. But did you know? Colds are also divided into many kinds, today to see what are the common colds, what is the difference. Next time you are sick, you can judge against your own symptoms, and maybe you don't have to run to the hospital!

Cold and flu, wind-cold, wind-heat and flu are the distinctions made by traditional Chinese medicine for colds and flu, while viral colds are the term used by Western medicine, which is further divided into common colds and influenza, so influenza is a kind of viral cold, and viral colds here have to be distinguished from bacterial colds.

Wind-heat colds occur throughout the year, when the weather starts to heat up, and are most characterized by fever. Before the symptoms of fever come out, there will be a headache, dry and sore throat, dry mouth and thirst, and start coughing. The mechanism of wind-heat cold, in a "hot" word, cough sputum is mostly yellow, darker color, and the tongue, the color of the lips are red. Wind-cold colds mostly occur in the fall and winter seasons, fear of cold, snot is white, sputum and snot, like greenish-white, thin texture.

What about viral colds? The main thing is a very runny nose, while bacterial colds are mainly characterized by redness, swelling and pain in the throat, and what we generally call the flu, is a viral cold.

Maybe some friends do not learn medicine, think as long as the discomfort, take a few days of antibacterial drugs on the good, in fact, this practice is both harm to the body, but also on the condition of no benefit. If it is a viral cold, eat antibacterial drugs have no effect at all, but also gave the bacterial resistance, the next time you get sick to eat more drugs to cure, into a vicious circle. Therefore, there is a headache and fever, first determine what the cause is, which kind of cold, and then the right medicine, in order to cure the disease.

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Chinese medicine only categorizes colds into colds, wind-colds, and wind-heat colds for the purpose of treatment. Viral cold is the name of the disease in Western medicine. Both are caused by viruses. It is the latter that has more severe symptoms and is more likely to cause epidemics. In addition, many infectious diseases are preceded by cold-like symptoms that require attention.

Wind is the first of the six elements, with cold, heat, dampness, summer, fire and invasion of disease, wind cold and flu with epidemic, regional, and should be the same as the modern western medicine of viral cold. Wind-cold and wind-heat colds are seasonal diseases that occur in winter and spring. Viral colds occur in all seasons.