Both Chinese and Western medicine have their own advantages for the treatment of colds. Western medicine treatment is fast-acting but sometimes has worrying side effects (see attached). In contrast, Chinese medicine has its own characteristics in relieving symptoms, shortening the course of illness, reducing the cost of treatment, and reducing the loss of labor due to illness. For example, Chinese medicine pursues “correct sweating” (i.e., slight sweating) when reducing fever, rather than profuse sweating, which results in more stable fever reduction and less damage to the body. Does this mean that Chinese medicine is safer? The answer is obviously no. The premise of safe and effective Chinese medicine treatment is the right symptoms. Like the treatment of other diseases, the Chinese medicine treatment of cold (including influenza) emphasizes the correspondence between heaven and man, and is appropriate to the place, time and person. In other words, according to the principle of treating with evidence, according to the change of climate in four seasons and the difference of north and south regions, according to the evidence of legislation, according to the law of prescription selection, to achieve the unity of theory and prescription. Traditional Chinese medicine classifies colds into wind-cold, wind-heat, summer-damp and qi-deficiency types. Among them, the more common are wind-cold and wind-heat. The typical symptoms of wind-cold are heavy cold, light fever, no sweating, headache, aching joints around the body, stuffy nose and runny nose, sneezing, itchy throat, cough, and thin white sputum. The treatment should be pungent and warm to relieve the symptoms. The prescription can be chosen from Jing Fang Defeat Poison San, Chinese medicine can be chosen from Zheng Chai Hu granules, cold and fever clearing punch, cold and flu soft capsule, Jiu Wei Qiang Wu granules / oral liquid, Jing Fang granules, with cough selected Ling Gui cough and wheezing capsule, bronchitis cough and phlegm wheezing pill, Tong Xuan Li Lung pill; wind-heat cold symptoms are heavy fever, slightly evil wind chill, headache, sore throat, or tonsils swelling and pain, nasal congestion, runny nose, cough, cough, coughing out mucous sputum or yellow sputum, thirst and drink. Thirst for drinks. The treatment should be pungent and cooling to relieve the symptoms. The prescription can be added and subtracted by Yin Qiao San, and the Chinese medicine can be used as sparing wind and detoxification capsule, Yin Qiao Detoxification Pill, Qing Kai Ling Oral Liquid, Ban Lan Gen Punch, Anti-Viral Granules/Oral Liquid, Antelope Detoxification Tablet/Pill, Sang Ju Cold Tablet/Pill, Shuang Huang Lian Oral Liquid/Capsule, etc. With cough, we can choose acute syrup, snake bile and Chuanbei cream. It is found that there are several misunderstandings in the use of Chinese medicine for cold and flu: Firstly, the medicine is used without identification, and the Chinese medicine is used as western medicine. For example, the use of wind-cold cold medicine for the treatment of wind-heat, resulting in injury to the spleen and stomach, prolonging the disease. And vice versa, wind-heat cold with the treatment of wind-cold evidence of the drug, the results are like pouring oil on the fire, the more serious treatment; second is to know the identification of evidence but the selection of drugs to take the meaning of the text, such as the common misunderstanding of “cold clear fever punch” is the treatment of wind-heat evidence, because the name of the drug has the word “clear fever”. In fact, the cold and fever punch is the treatment of wind-cold cold (I really do not know how to take this name!) Third, we know the identification but do not know where to start – this is the new subject we face, the new challenge – in recent years, the typical cold typing is increasingly rare, the clinical see more “atypical “The typical types of colds are becoming less and less common in recent years. From the traditional Chinese medicine point of view, typical wind-cold colds are mostly seen in autumn and winter, and wind-heat colds are mostly seen in spring and summer. However, due to modern lifestyle changes, human factors interfere with the impact of natural climate on the body, which in turn subverts the traditional onset of colds. For example, the emergence of “heating disease” in winter and “air conditioning disease” in summer has diversified and complicated the appearance of colds. That is, there are more and more so-called “atypical” colds. For example, the cold with cold and hot inside, which is called “cold with fire” type of cold, is the most common type of flu in the northern region. Symptoms are fever, chills, even high fever and chills, stuffy nose and runny nose, sore throat, headache, pain all over the body, cough, yellow sputum, red urine and constipation, red tongue with yellow coating and floating pulse. Treatment should be to disperse the cold from the surface and clear the heat from the inside. The typical wind-cold cold is extremely rare in winter, but may be seen in summer; likewise, the wind-heat cold, which is not common in spring and summer, is encountered from time to time in winter. Of course, it is more common to see a mix of cold and heat, and it is difficult to distinguish between cold and heat. Chinese medicine treatment should identify the amount of cold and heat, the use of medicine should be cold and heat, clear solution, but the clinical evidence need to consider the importance of clear and solution, such as five points of clear, five decomposition, or three points of clear, seven decomposition. Similarly, the treatment of cold and heat in the selection of prescriptions is also the same. Autumn is not at the end of the summer, we sing you on stage. The bird flu and influenza A today, the “little” cold, but also become so complicated. This will be a big problem that human beings will have to face for a long time to come, and it is also a new challenge for medical workers. P.S. The classification and selection of western medicine anti-cold medicine (1) the initial stage of the cold to “khat symptoms” (nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose, runny eyes) mainly, with anti-allergic and vasoconstrictor drugs, such as Neocontrol. Be aware of side effects such as drowsiness, high intraocular pressure, urinary retention, and impact on heart function; (2) for fever and headache, take antipyretic and analgesic drugs such as Benadryl, Piriton, and Tylenol. Note that ulcer disease, kidney disease, liver disease and pregnant women should be used with caution; (3) For those who have both of the above symptoms, use quick-acting typhoid capsules, Baijiahei, day and night Benadryl, Tylenol, etc. The same precautions for both of the above. (4) For people with influenza fever, use antiviral drugs such as Tamiflu, Crypto, Sensitive Health Tablets, and Tylenol Capsules. Note that pregnant women should use them with caution.