Cold cough in adults is actually caused by feeling wind and cold evil qi, which enters the body and causes the lung qi to be depressed and closed, resulting in a cough. Generally, patients with cold cough show fear of cold, cough, white phlegm, runny nose, nasal congestion, clear nasal discharge, dry mouth but do not want to drink water. Cold cough medicine is generally recommended as cold and fever pellets, Tongxuan lung capsules and Sanxiao tablets, all of which are very good medicines for cold cough. If you don’t have any medicine at home, you can boil a little brown sugar and ginger water to generate a sweat and relieve the symptoms, which can also improve the situation very well. So when you have a cough, you don’t have to take medicine, you can do gua sha, or even steam a sweat, to get a good treatment for cold cough.