Professor: Hello! The cold you mentioned can have symptoms such as runny nose, sneezing and coughing in Chinese medicine. Asthma is a lung disease characterized by recurrent coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and chest tightness. In asthma, the cough is longer, recurrent, more frequent in the morning and evening, more violent in paroxysms, and comes and goes more quickly. In contrast, the cough of a cold appears slowly and does not last as long, while a cold is often accompanied by a fever for a week and can generally be cured. In addition, asthma has four main symptoms: coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness.