How to treat cold and fire

Cold and fire colds should be treated with pungent coolness, clearing the lungs and calming the asthma, and can be treated with medication, such as taking Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang plus subtractions. Cold and fire cold is a kind of disease in traditional Chinese medicine, which means that the body surface feels the wind and cold evil qi, and over a long period of time, it becomes heat (if the evil qi stays for a long period of time, it will be transformed into heat), and the heat congests in the lungs, and the lungs do not function normally. Clinical manifestations include unresolved body heat, sweating or no sweating, coughing and shortness of breath, or even nasal fanning, thirst, thin white or yellow tongue coating, and a floating and numbered pulse. Cold and fire colds should be treated by relieving the exterior and clearing the interior of the body, and can be treated with the addition and subtraction of Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang, which consists of ephedra, gypsum, almonds, and licorice, with ephedra relieving the exterior and dispersing the evil spirits, gypsum clearing the heat of the lungs, almonds lowering the qi and calming the wheezing, and licorice modifying the various medicines (modifying the properties of different medicinal herbs). If you have a cold with fire, you should seek medical advice and standardized treatment under the guidance of a doctor.