Viral and wind-cold and wind-fever colds are diseases that belong to different systems of diagnosis, and although they are both colds, they cannot be compared. Viral cold is a viral infection caused by headache, sore throat, nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose, fever, weakness and other symptoms, which need to be diagnosed by laboratory tests and require antiviral treatment. Wind-cold and wind-heat colds belong to the Chinese medicine system, which are symptoms of nasal congestion and runny nose caused by wind-cold or wind-heat, etc. The two can be recognized by the severity of the malignant cold and fever, and by the tongue and pulse, etc. The use of Ephedra Soup or Sangju Drink, etc., is pungent and warm and relieves the epidermis, or is pungent and cool and relieves the epidermis. Viral and wind-cold and wind-heat colds are diagnosed in different systems and cannot be compared. On the other hand, wind-cold and wind-heat colds belong to the same system and can be compared differently.