Thick yellow tongue, cough and nasal discharge may represent summer-dampness cold, phlegm-heat cough, heat croup, and so on. However, it is up to the doctor to decide what exactly it means according to the patient’s condition. 1. If yellow tongue coating, cough and nasal discharge occur due to summer-dampness cold, it may be accompanied by fever, body heat (feeling hot all over the body, but not very hot when touching the skin), poor sweating, limb drowsiness (weakness and heaviness of the limbs) or aches and pains, a heavy head, dizziness (lack of appetite, reduced food intake), and heartburn and thirst. 2. If the cough is due to phlegm-heat, it may be accompanied by yellowish-thick tongue, cough, snotty nose, and may also be accompanied by a heavy cough that worsens paroxysmally in the morning, and the cough is relieved by coughing up phlegm that is yellowish-thick and not refreshing to cough up and spit out, or it may have a hot, fishy odor, or it may be accompanied by blood, and other symptoms. 3. If due to heat croup yellow thick tongue, cough, snot, may also be accompanied by thick breath, coughing and choking bouts, throat croup, boredom, sweating, thirst and drink, red face and bitter mouth and other symptoms. If the symptoms of yellow thick tongue, cough, nasal discharge, it is recommended to go to the regular hospital for timely treatment.