Colds are common in all seasons of the external disease, many families are equipped with Qing Kai Ling, Vitamin C Yin Qiao tablets and other proprietary medicines for the treatment of colds, but the medicine did not reduce the disease, the key lies in the lack of identification of medication. I do not know not divided into cold and heat indiscriminately eat cold medicine is not only not beneficial, but also a mistake. Chinese medicine believes that colds can generally be divided into wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds two categories, summer is coming, hot days suffering from colds, people often naturally feel is suffering from wind-heat colds, however, in modern life, there are air-conditioned rooms in and out of the night without clothing and cold, there is also a desire to drink cold or swimming in the water and the cold, which is easy to be triggered by wind-cold colds in the summer. So, what is the difference between wind-cold and wind-heat cold? Let’s learn more about it. Chinese medicine will be divided into wind-cold cold, wind-heat cold. The main difference is: ① wind-cold cold patients flow clear, clear sputum; and wind-heat cold patients flow yellow snot, yellow sticky sputum; ② wind-cold cold patients more head, neck and back and joint pain symptoms; and wind-heat cold patients more headache symptoms, and more accompanied by constipation; ③ wind-cold cold patients with a light fever, do not sweat, do not thirst; wind-heat cold patients with a fever heavy, easy to sweat, like drinking water; ④ Wind-cold and cold patients with thin white tongue coating; and wind-heat and cold patients with yellowish tongue coating, tongue tip red. It should be noted that the sore throat is not the key to distinguish between wind-cold and wind-fever colds, because both colds can cause sore throat. Some people think that a viral cold is a wind-heat cold. This view is incorrect. Viral cold is a type of cold in Western medicine, and there is no such theory in Chinese medicine. Therefore, it is wrong to treat viral colds as wind-heat colds. Before treating a cold, people should first distinguish which kind of cold they are suffering from, and Chinese medicine emphasizes the identification of evidence. We need to recognize the evidence and then use the medicine. There are many varieties of cold medicines, some of which are for wind-cold colds, such as Tongxuanli Lung Tablets (pills), Chuanxiong Tea Dispensary, Zhengchaihu Drinking Punch, etc.; for wind-heat colds, there are Vitamin C Yinqiao Tablets, Qingkailing, Banlangen Punch, and Antiviral Oral Liquid, etc. Otherwise, using incorrect medicines is not the best way to treat colds. Otherwise, the use of incorrect drugs, not only will not play a therapeutic role, but will aggravate the symptoms of wind-cold cold. It is also worth noting that the medicine must be used in the super early stage of the cold, at this time, the symptoms are: discomfort in the pharynx, discomfort in the pharynx when swallowing, dry pharynx, pharyngeal roughness, mild sore throat, it can be said that the cold is about to come, or it can be said that it is already a cold, but it is still in the early stage of the cold, the right medicine to cut off the reversal and recover as soon as possible to restore health, do not make it downward development, and to avoid the pain of a cold. If the cold is aggravated, still need to further dialectic, some people initially suffered from wind-cold cold, the body of Yang Sheng, will soon be transformed into wind-heat colds, need to be treated according to the wind heat, and vice versa, so the use of medication is not set in stone, which is worthy of our attention.