Heat cold and cold cold, also known as wind-heat and wind-cold cold in Chinese medicine, are different in symptoms and treatments. 1. Symptoms: wind-heat is characterized by nasal congestion, yellow nasal discharge, fever, dry mouth and throat, and sore throat; wind-cold is mainly characterized by chills, headache, limb pain, nasal congestion, and clear nasal discharge. 2. Treatment: wind-heat colds require wind dispersal and clearing of heat, and can be treated with Yin Qiao San, whose main ingredients are honeysuckle, forsythia, peppermint, mint, tempeh, bamboo leaves, rehmannia, etc. Wind-cold colds require pungent warmth and relief of the epidermis, and can be treated with Jing Fang Pu Poisonous Dispersion, whose main ingredients are jing wu, poria, feng feng, duhuo, chai hu, ex-hu, platanopsis, qiang vivax and licorice. Patients with colds are advised to consult a doctor in a timely manner, under the guidance of the doctor’s diagnosis and use of medication, so as not to delay the condition.