Wind-cold and cold are treated with the treatment of relieving the epidermis with pungent warmth, promoting the lungs and dispersing cold, and the treatment of Thorny Preventing and Septicating Toxin Dispersion; wind-heat and cold are treated with the treatment of relieving the epidermis with pungent coolness, dispersing the winds and clearing away the heat, and the treatment of Yin Qiao San is selected.
Wind-cold cold is mainly characterized by severe cold (fear of cold), mild fever, no sweating, headache and other symptoms. The formula of Jing Fang Suo Toxin San was selected for the treatment of wind-cold flu.
Jing, Fang, Severe Toxin Dispersion is composed of Jing, Fang, Poria, etc. It has the function of dispersing wind and relieving surface, seizing toxins. It has the efficacy of dispersing wind and relieving surface, destroying toxins and subduing swelling, expelling phlegm and relieving cough. It can be used for the first appearance of wind-cold, malignant cold and fever, headache, body pain, chest tightness and cough, phlegm and white color, white moss and floating pulse. This formula is warm and dry in nature, and should not be used by those who have solid heat in the body or internal heat in yin deficiency.
Wind-heat cold manifested as body heat, slightly bad wind and other symptoms, prescription Yin Qiao San treatment. Yin Qiao San is composed of honeysuckle and forsythia, etc. It has the efficacy of dispersing the evil qi on the surface of the muscle with pungent and cool medicines, clearing heat and detoxifying toxins. It is used for wind-heat cold, fever and headache, dry mouth and cough, sore throat, and short and red urine (small amount of urine with dark yellow color). It is not advisable to take tonic proprietary Chinese medicines at the same time while taking this medicine.
Wind-heat and wind-cold colds have a shorter and more rapid course, and should be added or subtracted under the diagnosis of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be used on one’s own.