Is Chinese medicine effective in reducing fever from colds?

  Yesterday, I was informed by the kindergarten that my son had a cough with fever and was prescribed three doses of Chinese medicine to take him home. I boiled the herbs and drank half of them, and at 5:00 p.m., his fever reached 38.5°C. He was given antipyretic medicine for half an hour and the fever subsided, but his cough was frequent and violent, and he had dry heaves from time to time. I took another herbal medicine before going to bed, and at 12:00, I took a temperature of 38.9℃, and gave another antipyretic medicine, but one and a half hours later, the fever was 38.2℃, still no sweat, and the temperature was rising, so I gave another antipyretic medicine, and one hour later, there was still no sweat, and I tried massage without effect. In anxiety, I saw that the child’s face was red, his breathing was rapid like wheezing, and he had dry vomiting after drinking water. The cough and wheezing disappeared, and he fell asleep smoothly after drinking water. The next day, there was a slight fever, and no more fever after drinking the rest of the ephedra soup. After taking three doses of herbs to relieve cough, the cough was also basically cured.