The difference between a wind-cold cough and a wind-heat cough mainly lies in the following: 1. A wind-cold cough is mainly a cough of white sputum without obvious throat pain, while a wind-heat cough is mainly a cough of pus sputum with obvious throat pain. 2. A wind-cold cough is usually not accompanied by high fever, while a wind-heat cough sometimes has a high fever. In Western medicine, both wind-cold and wind-heat coughs are mainly viral infections, so their treatment is mainly symptomatic and can include oral antiviral or antipyretic herbal medicines, which generally provide significant relief from wind-cold and wind-heat coughs after 5-7 days of oral medication.