Colds are one of the most common clinical diseases and can occur throughout the year. Due to the different theoretical systems of Chinese and Western medicine, there are great differences in the understanding and treatment of colds. For example, in warm winter, more patients with colds, Western medicine believes that the phenomenon of warm winter more conducive to the growth of pathogenic bacteria, easy to cause colds; and Chinese medicine is considered to be due to the “non-time and its gas”, both winter should be cold and anti-warming of this nature’s abnormal environment, resulting in the human body coupled with laxity and easy to feel the outside world to occur colds. In the treatment of Western medicine to anti-virus and anti-bacteria, as well as antipyretic, analgesic, cough, anti-allergy and other methods, to relieve a series of symptoms caused by colds; Chinese medicine is based on the human body to feel the different evils of the body and the performance of evils invade the human body, the difference between the wind-cold and wind-heat, respectively, to be the Xinwen and Xinliang to relieve the symptoms of the therapeutic purpose. Due to the lack of specificity of western medicine in the treatment of colds, the use of traditional Chinese medicine, especially proprietary Chinese medicines, has become a routine choice for doctors and patients. However, it is common for patients with colds to keep taking various medicines while their colds continue to remain untreated or even become complicated by other illnesses. The reasons for this are not only related to the patient’s own physical condition, but also to the improper selection of medicines for the treatment of colds. Chinese medicine emphasizes the identification of evidence, and the treatment of colds is no exception. Chinese medicine believes that colds are mostly caused by wind and different seasonal qi that invade the human body, such as wind-cold in winter, wind-heat in spring, summer-heat in summer, dampness in the rainy season between summer and fall, and dryness in fall, etc. Generally speaking, wind and different seasonal qi are the most common causes of colds. Generally speaking, the wind evil mixed with seasonal air, often wind cold, wind heat two types of common, other summer, wet, dry and other external evils can also be mixed, so there are wind-cold cold, wind-heat, summer heat, summer wet, autumn dry, etc., in addition to the time line of the cold, cold and cold, such as the name of the disease of the body weakness. 1, wind-cold cold wind-cold cold mostly occurs in the fall, winter or early spring season, for the feeling of foreign wind-cold evil and the onset of the disease. Because of the wind-cold evil attacking the surface of the muscle, the sweat hole opening and closing unfavorable caused by the symptoms of the cold, no sweat, head and body pain, nasal congestion and runny nose, and even shortness of breath. The pulse is often tight or stringy, and the tongue coating is thin and white. The treatment of such colds and flu treatment for the Xinwen relief of the surface, dispersal of wind-cold, or Xinwen relief of the surface, declaring lung asthma, in the surface of the wind-cold or by the cold evil depressed closed the lungs, a Xinwen products XuanTong, the surface of the evils to be resolved, the lungs have to be declared and the disappearance of all the symptoms. Commonly used Chinese medicines include wind-cold and cold granules, wind-cold and cold tablets, cold and heat granules, nine flavors of Qiangwu granules, Chuanxiong Tea Pills, Chaihu Drinking Granules, pediatric Ma Gan granules (for children), etc. Commonly used folk remedies for cold and flu such as onion-ginger water and ginger-sugar water, are also suitable for wind-cold and cold. 2, wind-heat colds Wind-heat colds mostly occur in the spring. Spring is windy, and the climate turns warm, so wind and warm-heat evils can cause illnesses at the same time. The wind-heat evil invades the lungs and guards, causing the guards and guards to be incompatible, and the lungs are not purged and a series of wind-heat symptoms appear. The symptoms are fever, shovel mantle with no sweat or sweat, headache and body pain, or nasal congestion, running nose, cough, sore throat, etc. The pulse is often floating, and the tongue coating is thin and white with little fluid or thin yellow. The treatment of this type of cold should be pungent and cool relief, wind dispersal, in the surface of the heat of the evil by the pungent and cool medicines Xuan penetration, the heat to dispel the surface of the evil to be relieved and the disease to the healing. Commonly used Chinese medicines include Yin Qiao Xie Tu Pill, Rhino Antelope Xie Tu Pill, Sang Ju Cold Tablet, Wind-Heat Cold Pellet, Antelope Cold Tablet, Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid, Yinhuang Oral Liquid (Pellet) and so on. 3.Summer Dampness (Summer Heat) Cold Summer Dampness Cold or Summer Cold, mostly occurs in summer and autumn season when summer and dampness are in season, due to the external wind-cold, internal summer dampness, Yingwei disharmony and the onset of the disease, the symptoms see in addition to the symptoms such as chills and fever, but also heat and sweat, chest tightness, dizziness and distension, flooding evil, intestinal tinnitus, diarrhea, general body aches and pains, fatigue and tiredness, tongue coating and pulse moistening, and other symptoms. The gastrointestinal colds in Western medicine are often similar to summer-dampness colds. The treatment is appropriate to solve the surface of the dampness, the rationalization of qi and the method, commonly used proprietary Chinese medicines are summer cold and dampness punch, Huo Xiang Zhengqi series (water, pills, capsules, etc.), dispel the summer pill, summer syndrome tablets, six a loose, summer punch, cool and prevent heat stroke, and so on. If the fever is heavier, sweating heat does not resolve, accompanied by heartburn and thirst, short urine tongue yellow thick and greasy is the summer damp heat evidence, can be used as appropriate double Huanglian oral liquid, Yinhuang oral liquid such as heat detoxification drugs, but should pay attention to the disease, not overuse cold. For the treatment of summer colds and dampness should pay attention to not only can not be a large dose of Xin Wen sweating, but also can not be overused bitter and cold attack, it is appropriate to review the situation to resolve the surface of the turbid dampness and clear heat, otherwise it is easy to make the surface of the evidence is not healed or change into other diseases. 4, autumn dryness cold Autumn dryness cold occurs in the fall, is due to the wind evil and hostage autumn dryness injury caused by disease. The symptoms are cold and fever, headache, dry mouth and nose, dry and sore throat, mute voice, cough without sputum or sputum is small and sticky, and in serious cases, there is blood in the sputum, etc. The pulse is fine, and the tongue coating is thin and white or thin and yellow, and there is little fluid. The treatment should be pungent and cool to relieve symptoms, clearing dryness and moistening the lungs. The available mulberry chrysanthemum cold granules, autumn dryness cold granules, mulberry and apricot soup, and so on. Autumn dryness cold medicine should pay attention to, avoid overuse of pungent warm dry products such as ephedra, cinnamon sticks and so on, otherwise not only the dryness of the evil does not get rid of, but also to hurt the yin robbing liquid surface evil into the aggravation of the condition. In addition, Chinese medicine also has a seasonal cold, deficiency cold and other titles. Seasonal colds are probably comparable to influenza in Western medicine. According to TCM, the causes of seasonal colds are mostly related to sudden climatic changes and temperature and cold disorders, such as warmth in spring and cold in winter, and cold in winter and warmth in winter, etc., which are caused by out-of-season viruses attacking the body. Symptoms are similar to those of common cold but with epidemic nature, and the onset of the disease is fast and severe, which can be seen as high fever, chills, runny nose, severe headache, pain in limbs, and a strong or sluggish pulse. The treatment of seasonal colds should also be based on the different pathogens and there are wind-heat, wind-cold, summer-dampness and other types, but because of the heavier condition of seasonal colds, the external evils are often easy to quickly into the heat, so it is appropriate to use in the diagnosis of the basis of the use of traditional Chinese medicines that have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification of blood, commonly used proprietary Chinese medicines clearing away heat and detoxification of the oral liquid, Shuanghuanglian oral liquid, Panlangen Chongtan, Dazhongye Combination, Yinhuang Oral Liquid (Granules), anti-sensory particles, Antiviral oral liquid (granules), etc. can be used in combination as appropriate. Certain compound preparations combining Chinese and Western medicines, such as Vitamin C Yin Qiao Tablets, San Jiu Cold Spirit Punch, Cold and Flu Clear, etc., are effective in relieving symptoms and shortening the duration of illness. Cold and flu refers to the symptoms of lingering colds or repeated colds over a period of time, which are mainly seen in people suffering from various chronic diseases, as well as children, women and the elderly. In addition to the general symptoms of colds, there are symptoms of deficiency such as spontaneous sweating, fatigue, chest tightness and shortness of breath, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine has a good therapeutic effect on deficiency colds, and the patient’s deficiency should be identified and treated according to the evidence. For the treatment of deficiency colds, proprietary Chinese medicines such as Yu Ping Feng San (pill), Sen Su cold and flu tablets (pill), Sen Su Xuan Lung Pills, Jing Fang Shi Poison Pills, Gui Zhi Combination, anti-sensory tablets, Sen Qi Qi Stop Sweat Punch and so on should be used in the treatment of qi deficiency susceptibility to infection, for colds and five heartburn and heat, red tongue with no moss or less moss, the pulse of the yin deficiency susceptibility to infection, can be optional Chinese herbal tonics plus subtraction of Weiweiwei soup and so on to identify the evidence of the treatment. In short, the use of proprietary Chinese medicines for the treatment of colds should also recognize the evidence. The identification of colds should not be limited to a symptom, for example, fever, sore throat may not be wind-heat colds; viral colds are not necessarily wind-heat colds; colds after the limbs heavy fatigue may not be a sign of deficiency and so on. Rather, the patient’s symptoms, tongue, pulse, constitution and climate and environment and many other factors to identify and analyze the evidence, the right treatment, only in this way can maximize the avoidance of adverse drug reactions, to ensure that the application of proprietary Chinese medicines in the symptomatic, safe and effective.