In the clinical viral cold to take amoxicillin is not effective, viral cold is mainly the symptoms caused by the infection of the virus, and amoxicillin is a penicillin antibacterial, for bacterial infection caused by the upper respiratory tract infection has an effect, so the viral cold is not recommended to take amoxicillin. The viral cold is recommended to be mainly antiviral, in the clinical can choose the following kinds of drugs: 1, choose western medicine to treatment, such as the clinical more commonly used oseltamivir, is a very good antiviral drugs. 2, can also choose some Chinese medicine to treatment, more commonly used in the four seasons antiviral combination, pudilan anti-inflammatory tablets, or plate blue root particles and paregoric particles, are very good. 3, viral cold is a self-healing disease, about 1 week can basically recover, but need good rest and a light diet, and drink more warm water, these are very good choices.