Sore throat is wind-cold or wind-heat

Both wind-cold and wind-heat can cause sore throat, which is from the perspective of Chinese medicine. Wind-cold is usually associated with catching a cold and may be accompanied by symptoms such as low fever, weakness of the limbs, loss of appetite, and relief of soreness. Sore throat caused by wind-heat may be accompanied by yellow tongue coating, coughing yellow phlegm, conjunctival congestion and other symptoms, such as diarrhea, and other, digestive tract symptoms. You can take Chinese patent medicine preparations with clearing heat and detoxifying, anti-inflammatory and pharyngeal effects orally, such as Glycyrrhiza Bingmei Tablets, Liushen Wan, Open Throat Sword Spray, Pudilan Anti-inflammatory Oral Liquid, etc. If accompanied by persistent high fever, body temperature over 38.5 °, you need to add penicillin, and cephalosporin antibiotics, if necessary, give Merlin oral antipyretic treatment, drink more water to improve the body’s immunity.