Three patients with colds, a female, 68 years old; a male, 36 years old; and a female, 4 years old. Residing in Shaoyang City, Hunan Province. Initial diagnosis: December 19, 2003 Complaint: fever and vicious cold, nasal congestion and clear runny nose for 1 day. Current medical history: The 3 young people were my mother-in-law, myself and my daughter, who were in the high season of cold and flu. Physical examination: body temperature was 37.8, 37.5 and 38℃ respectively, pharynx was slightly congested, tonsils were not significantly enlarged, and both lungs were free of dry and wet rales. The tongue is light red with thin white coating and the pulse is floating and slightly tight. TCM diagnosis: cold (wind-cold attacking the surface). Diagnosis in Western medicine: upper respiratory tract infection. Treatment and prescription: To relieve the symptoms and disperse the cold, the formula is Jing Fang Defeat Poison San plus or minus (please note! (The dose of this prescription is the dose of three people, equivalent to 2.5 times the dose of ordinary adults, it is not recommended that patients cite their own, to cite must be careful not to exceed the dose!) The dose is equivalent to the normal adult dose. As a result, after drinking the first medicine, all 3 people got well from the cold, which is equivalent to 1/2 pair of Chinese medicine each, accounting for only 1/6 of the total amount of medicine purchased. According to Western medicine, more than 90% of common cold is viral infection, which is a self-limiting disease, and there is no good way to treat it, usually only symptomatic treatment is taken to alleviate the symptoms and rely on the patient to heal by himself, generally for 7~14 days. Therefore, the formal treatment at home and abroad emphasizes rest, drinking more water and appropriate symptomatic treatment. But many people do not do it. Fever must be quickly reduced, cough must be quickly stopped, and so on, otherwise it is that you, the doctor, are not capable of treating even a small cold. So the doctors, in order to cater to the needs of the patients and not to let the patients look down on their own level, gave the patients hanging bottles, antibiotics, glucocorticoids, antivirals, antipyretics and analgesics, to name a few. Patients get rapid relief, doctors earn more money, all happy. However, problems also arise, the patient this time with these drugs to good effect, the next efficacy will soon decline, resulting in longer and longer treatment time, drug doses, more and more types of drugs, antibacterial drug abuse, drug-resistant strains continue to appear. Patients are taking more and more risks, and medical expenses are getting higher and higher, questioning every day that a cold costs hundreds, and that doctors are too heartless. Therefore, I basically don’t see colds in general. If I don’t use Chinese medicine, the efficacy of treatment with regular Western medicine is not as good as that of a clinic doctor, and patients will think that I am not worthy of the name. If I follow the patient’s requirements and preferences, it is against the medical principles. Therefore, I simply do not see them and let them go to other departments to find a doctor. But this time, it was myself and my family who suffered from the flu, so there was no reason to go to someone else, so I prescribed my own herbal treatment. I thought it would be good to be cured in three days, so I prescribed 3 doses (3 people per dose), which I did not expect that all three people would be cured after only one drink, and the remaining 5/6 medicines were all poured out. My mother-in-law complained that I had prescribed so much medicine and it was a shame to waste it. Although only a few dollars, but the waste of drugs accounted for 5 times the amount of drugs already used, is indeed a huge waste. I don’t know if my mother-in-law is really complaining or complimenting me. Western doctors say that there is no good way to treat colds, and that’s because they don’t use Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine certainly has to treat colds with evidence. Regardless of whether the cold is caused by virus or bacteria, Chinese medicine only looks at which type of evidence, wind-cold, wind-heat, summer-damp, seasonal cold (flu) and so on. Different types of treatment methods are very different, not just anyone is suitable for drinking Banlangen, if the wind-cold cold drink Banlangen, is equivalent to a very cold people, you also give TA drink ice water, wash cold water, that is adding to the frost; On the contrary, if the wind-heat cold patients, you also give TA drink hot drugs, that is also adding fuel to the fire. Not only ineffective, but also harmful. This is one of the reasons why many people question the ineffectiveness of Chinese medicine. In fact, it is not that Chinese medicine is ineffective, but that it is used improperly. Although it is generally said that only influenza is an infectious disease, I think the common cold is also, often in a short period of time close contacts “are infected with each other, the disease is similar”, you can use generally the same treatment method prescriptions. Of course, it also needs to be adjusted according to the patient’s own situation, not a thousand people a method. In this case, the three members of the family were infected with similar symptoms and the same type of evidence, and all of them were treated with Jing Fang Defeat Poison San, which is used to dispel cold from the surface, plus Jin Yin Hua and Ban Lan Gen. It is derived from Ginseng Defeated Poison San with Thornbush and Fenghuang. Ginseng Defeated Poison San is used for cold and wind in deficient people, and it is very effective. It is also very effective in treating sores and toxins with superficial evidence, but it is also very effective in treating wind-cold colds in deficient people, which I usually like to use. My mother-in-law is old and in poor health; my daughter is small and her internal organs are delicate; I myself am in good health, but as I grow older and have a stressful life and work, I do not have time to exercise and gain weight, so I feel that my health is not as good as before. All of them have clinical manifestations of Qi deficiency, so the use of Jing Fang Defeat Poison San should be the right formula to match. And even if it is a wind-cold cold, it is easy to turn into heat, and there is already throat discomfort and congestion. When I was an intern, my teacher used to add two kinds of heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines, Jin Yin Hua and Pan Lan Gen, at this time to prevent the cold from turning into heat. It was also influenced by modern medical research that these two medicines have an inhibitory effect on bacteria and viruses. Although 3 doses of herbs are decocted in one pot, when we take them, they are adjusted according to weight, age and physical condition, and the dosage is actually different for each person and is in accordance with the actual situation of each person, which is the part of the same disease and different treatment.