Symptoms triggered by novel coronavirus pneumonia are mainly fever, cough and malaise, and occasionally chest pain. Most of the chest pains are due to inflammation from the throat down to the trachea, whereas the inflammation of novel coronavirus is mostly in the outer lung field, indicating that the virus mainly invades the lung tissues rather than the airways, so there are not many real airway reactions or pharyngeal reactions. From the Chinese medicine point of view, it is mainly the process of heat entry. If the heat is heavy, some patients will have a sore throat, which may be accompanied by chest pain, but not a lot, and when the heat is heavy, heat-clearing medicines in Chinese medicine can be effective. If the symptoms of sore throat and chest pain occur, it should be identified as a cold caused by the common cold or influenza virus, not necessarily a disease caused by the new coronavirus.