Wind-cold and wind-heat colds can be distinguished by their causes, symptoms and treatments.
1. Causes: Wind-cold colds are caused by wind-cold evils attacking the lungs, while wind-heat colds are caused by wind-heat evils invading the lungs.
2. Symptoms: Patients with wind-cold and wind-heat colds can have fever and chills, but patients with wind-cold colds have heavy chills and light fever, accompanied by runny nose and other symptoms. However, in the case of wind-heat cold, the symptoms are heavy fever and light fever, accompanied by running yellow mucus, etc. The symptoms of wind-heat cold are heavy fever and light cold, accompanied by running yellow mucus.
3. Treatment: Patients with wind-cold colds should be treated with drugs that disperse wind and cold, such as ephedra soup. Patients with wind-heat colds should be treated with wind-dispersing and heat-dispersing drugs, such as Yin Qiao San.
Patients should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment after clarifying the type of illness. Do not identify the evidence and medication privately, so as not to cause damage to the organism.