Yang Ming Director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, chief physician, professor, member of the Committee of Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine of the Chinese Physicians Association, executive director of the Henan Provincial Chinese Medicine Association, and deputy director of the Henan Provincial TCM Cardiovascular Disease Committee. 1. How is “cold defined” from the perspective of TCM? Yang Ming, Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Henan Provincial People’s Hospital A: Cold is a common external disease caused by feeling the wind and the wind, with clinical manifestations such as nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing, cough, headache, chills, fever and general discomfort. In Chinese medicine, there are terms such as “wind-cold”, “wind-heat” and “summer-heat”, and there are also terms such as “wind-cold” and “wind-heat”. “, “wind-heat”, “summer dampness injury type”, “qi deficiency cold type”, “yin deficiency cold type “Are these terms accurate? Do they have the same symptoms? Which type of cold is more likely to get for winter? A: These statements are accurate. Their symptoms are not the same. For winter, it is easier to get wind-cold cold, wind-heat cold in spring, summer heat and humidity in summer, dryness in autumn, and dampness in rainy season. a. Wind-cold cold: heavy cold, light fever, no sweating, headache, aching limbs, stuffy nose, heavy voice, sometimes runny nose, itchy throat, cough, thin white sputum, no thirst or hot drinks, thin white tongue coating and moist, floating or tight pulse. b. Wind-heat cold: body heat with slight wind aversion, poor sweating, head swelling and pain, cough, sticky or yellow sputum, dry throat or painful redness and swelling of the moths in the throat, yellow runny nose, thirst for drinks, thin white and slightly yellow tongue coating, red edges, floating pulse. 3. 3. Is influenza the same as “wind-cold” or “wind-heat” cold? What are its symptoms? A: Influenza is different from “wind-cold” and “wind-heat” colds. Influenza is mainly caused by infectious seasonal epidemic viruses attacking the human body, mostly caused by the epidemic of the four seasons and the epidemic of the sky. The onset of the epidemic is not limited to the seasons, and there is a wide range of infectious epidemic, the onset of the disease is rapid, often sudden chills and high fever, the disease is more serious, the systemic symptoms are more prominent, and can be transmitted, into the heat, combined with other diseases. 4. 4. Nowadays, people take medicine casually when they catch a cold. How to treat the symptoms? A: It is not right to take medicine casually once you catch a cold, you should treat it with evidence: a. Wind-cold cold should be pungent and warm to relieve the symptoms, promote the lung and disperse the cold, its representative prescription: Jing Fang Defeat Poison San, etc. b. For wind-heat cold, it should be pungent and cool to relieve the symptoms, promote the lung and clear heat. c. For influenza, it is necessary to use heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines such as jinyinhua, forsythia, panax quinquefolium, scutellaria, bupleurum, gypsum, guanzhong, etc. 5. There are many people who do not take medicine when they have a cold, saying that they are in good health and will pass. And some people take a lot of medicine to get well quickly when they have a cold, thinking that Chinese medicine has no side effects. Chinese medicine has no side effects? A: Such a practice is not scientific, if the symptoms are more serious to be treated with drugs, in addition, some people once the cold does not distinguish between the major and major to take medicine is not appropriate, as they say: “medicine three points of poison”, if excessive drinking, will cause the corresponding adverse reactions. 6. cold fever can not take antipyretic drugs? A: If you have a cold and fever, you should take antipyretic medicine if your body temperature is higher than 38.5 degrees. 7. 7. What are the contraindications to treating a cold from the perspective of Chinese medicine? What do I pay attention to in terms of diet? A: In the treatment of cold from Chinese medicine, one should identify the evidence, and the other is to avoid the use of tonic and astringent products. 8. 8. Are there any small remedies to prevent and treat colds? For example, food therapy, etc. Are there any good ways to prevent colds in daily life? A: It is very important to prevent colds. In winter and spring, when wind and cold are in season, you can use: 10 grams each of Guanzhong, Ziziphi, Thornbush and three grams of licorice in a decoction for three days. In summer, summer humidity season, can be used: patchouli, pelargonium each five grams, two grams of peppermint boiled soup to replace the drink. If the poison is widespread, use: ten grams of Guanzhong, fifteen grams of Banlangen (or Da Qing Ye), five grams of licorice decoction for one daily dose, or use the corresponding single herbal medicine with granules. At the same time, attention should be paid to the cold and warmth, in the hot and cold climate changes, at any time to increase or decrease clothing, avoid cold and rain and excessive fatigue, discourage patients to go to public places to prevent cross-infection, in order to control the epidemic. Vinegar fumigation method can be used indoors. 5-10ml of vinegar is used for each cubic meter of space, diluted with 1-2 times of water and then heated and fumigated for two hours, once a day or every other day, to disinfect the air to prevent infection. Commonly used foods such as: onion, garlic, ginger, vinegar, etc. also have preventive effect.