Since the beginning of winter, the city entered the high season of influenza, flu-like cases in the hospital outpatient emergency room accounted for about 10%, the major hospitals in the whistling internal medicine outpatient volume is almost twice the usual, the number of hospital infusions also reached the highest level. “Many people ask for infusions as soon as they get a fever, but in fact, there is no need to hang water at all below 38.5°C.” The current flu is what Chinese medicine calls warm fever, if not a high-risk group of people with severe influenza A, the temperature does not exceed 38.5 ℃, as long as you take Chinese medicine or soup, and cold medicine with antipyretic and analgesic effect, you can solve the problem. Myth 1: Hanging water is fast Chinese medicine advice: choose a good Chinese medicine The pathogen causing the flu is a virus, and hanging water is the main component of antibiotics and hormones, hormones can play a role in reducing fever, but at the same time can cause the spread of infection, “from this point of view, antibiotics are only used to deal with the use of hormones may cause bacterial infection.” At present, the infusion rooms of major hospitals are often “overcrowded”. “So many people crowded in a small space, it is easy to cause the spread of pathogenic bacteria, further aggravating the disease.” Fever patients may have a variety of conditions, some are patients with influenza A, some are acute tonsillitis, some are mycoplasma pneumonia, etc. Information recently released by the provincial health department shows that 69 percent of all flu-like cases monitored by sentinel hospitals are influenza, and 98 percent of them are influenza A. “Influenza A is a new kind of flu, and it is inevitable that people feel nervous when they have a fever and cough.” From the outpatient clinic, the symptoms of influenza A are similar to other influenza, mainly manifested as fever, sore throat, runny nose, nasal congestion, cough, coughing, headache, body aches, weakness, etc., with individual vomiting and diarrhea. “This is what Chinese medicine calls warm-heat disease, and the Wu School of Medicine is very good at research in this area.” This flu mainly belongs to the type of cold pack heat, and the best way to treat it in Chinese medicine is to take herbal soup, and doctors can personalize the treatment according to different situations. If you want to save time, it is okay to buy some proprietary Chinese medicine from pharmacies, which is relatively easier. If you have fear of cold, chills, nasal congestion, runny water, etc., you can take Xiangju Cold and Flu Punch, Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Wan (with vomiting, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms); and if you have fever and sore throat, you can take anti-viral punch, such as Qing Kai Ling granules, Zheng Chai Hu punch, Xiangju Cold and Flu Punch, etc. Myth 2: Garlic and chili pepper to prevent influenza A Chinese medicine advice: you can drink mulberry chrysanthemum drink Garlic and chili pepper are spicy food, not suitable for everyone. The more people eat it, the more Yin deficiency will be caused, and the hotter people are themselves, the hotter they eat, while garlic and chili peppers are still taboo for cough patients, the more they eat the more powerful the cough. “Chinese medicine prevention and health care is all about balance.” He said that many people in health and wellness is very concerned about the “addition”, what to eat, what to use, can prevent disease, in fact, sometimes appropriate to do “subtraction”, can also play the effect of disease prevention. It is understood that the human body will be cold to reduce resistance, so the first anti-flu cold, especially in the morning and evening; second, the crowded places to go less, to avoid infection; third, to pay attention to rest, rest and rest on time; finally, scallops, lobsters and other seafood for cold food, should not eat more. If you are usually weak and especially prone to cold, you can take Yu Ping Feng San to prevent it during the remission period. And if you just feel wind and cold, you can also eat some ginger soup to drive away the cold. And if in the early stage of the disease, low fever, sore throat, slight cough, can take mulberry chrysanthemum drink. It is understood that mulberry chrysanthemum drink originated from the work of Zhang Zhongjing, a great medical scientist in the Han Dynasty of China, “The Treatise on Typhoid Fever”, whose main ingredients include mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum flowers, forsythia and licorice. He said it can also be streamlined by taking 10 grams of chrysanthemum flowers and 10 grams of (frosted) mulberry leaves, washing them and adding 1,000 ml of water, boiling them on a high fire and then cooking them on a gentle fire for 10 to 15 minutes, and putting some sugar in them when you eat them. Mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, can be bought in pharmacies.