There are two types of colds. A cold with a clear nose, white sputum and fear of cold is usually a wind-cold cold, while a cold with a yellow nose or no runny nose. If you have a fever and spit up yellow sputum, it is usually a wind-heat cold. If you take the wrong cold medicine, your cold will be difficult to heal and will develop into repeated coughs and even serious diseases such as trachea, bronchitis and pneumonia.
Wind-cold cold is caused by the external attack of wind-cold evil and the loss of lung qi promotion. Symptoms can be seen as follows: heavy cold, light fever, no sweating, headache and body pain, stuffy nose and clear runny nose, cough with thin white sputum, no thirst or thirst for hot drinks, and thin white fur. Treatment should be based on pungent warmth to relieve the symptoms. Ephedra, thorny mustard, bupleurum and sophora are often used to dispel cold. The representative formula is “Onion and Black Bean Soup”, “Jing Fang Defeat Poison San”. Chinese medicine can be used to clear the cold and fever, Zheng Chai Hu drink, cold soft capsule, Chuanxiong tea transfer, Tong Xuan Li 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 dispel the wind and cold.
Commonly used Chinese medicines for wind-cold are
1.Jing Fang Defeat Poison Pill
2.Jing Fang Punch (combination)
3.Zheng Chai Hu Drinking Granules
4.Cold and fever clearing granules
5.Cold water
6.Cold soft capsule
7.Cold and fever relief tablets
8.Feng Feng Tong Sheng Wan
9.Jiu Wei Qiang Wu granules (pills, tablets)
Cold and wind cold diet.
1, white onion drink: 100 grams of white onion, chopped decoction, drink while hot.
2, ginger tea drink: 10 slices of ginger, tea 7 grams, decoction, drink while hot.
3, ginger date drink: 5 slices of ginger, dates 10, decoction, drink while hot.
4, radish drink: appropriate amount of radish, sliced decoction, add a little vinegar, drink while hot.
5, three spicy drink: garlic, white onion, ginger each appropriate amount, decoction, drink while hot.
6, orange peel drink: 50 grams of fresh orange peel, sugar, brewed with boiling water as a tea drink.
7, chrysanthemum drink: chrysanthemum 6 grams, brewed with boiling water as a substitute for tea.
8, ginger radish soup: 25 grams of ginger, radish 50 grams of chopped decoction, drink while hot.
Wind-heat cold is caused by the wind-heat evil offending the surface, the lung Qi is not in harmony. Symptoms are heavy fever, slight wind, head swelling, sweating, red and painful throat, cough, sticky or yellow sputum, yellow nasal congestion, thirsty and drinkable, red tongue, thin white and slightly yellow moss. The treatment should be based on pungent and cooling relief of symptoms. Chrysanthemum, peppermint, mulberry leaf, etc. are often used. The representative formulas are “Yin Qiao San” and “Sang Ju Drink”. The medicine can be used as Yin Qiao Jie Toxin Pill (Tablet), Antelope Qiao Jie Toxin Pill, Sang Ju Cold Tablet, Pan Lan Gen Punch, etc. If the fever is heavy and the sore throat is obvious, you can take Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid (Punch), Qinghejiao Detoxification Oral Liquid. These medicines have better effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. For wind and fever colds, drink more water, eat lightly, and drink radish soup or pear soup.
Commonly used Chinese medicines for wind and fever colds are.
1.Sang Ju Yin Qiao San
2.Yin Qiao Detoxification Pill
3.Feng-heat cold punch
4.Cold and fever reducer
5.Heat Poison Clear Tablets
6.Sang Ju Cold and Flu Tablets
The food therapy formula of wind-heat type cold.
1.Tea and bean drink: 30 grams of mung beans, 9 grams of tea, sugar in appropriate amounts.
2, mint porridge: 15 grams of mint, 60 grams of round-grained rice, sugar in the right amount.
3, chrysanthemum porridge: 15 grams of chrysanthemum, 60 grams of round-grained rice.
4.Mao ginger thin rice: 30 grams of white foxglove, 3 slices of ginger, 60 grams of round-grained rice.
Cold is a small disease, but do not eat the wrong cold medicine Oh!