Beijing has not had any precipitation for two months, the air is dry and the temperature is high, giving viruses and bacteria a chance to take advantage of the situation, and the number of cold and flu patients has increased significantly. With the improvement of medical conditions, many families have a small medicine chest, prepared with commonly used drugs, but, in the face of a small cold, your drug selection is right? Colds are divided into two categories: wind-cold and wind-heat, which should be treated with the appropriate medication. So, how can you choose the right medicine? First of all, we should distinguish between wind-cold and wind-heat cold. The main performance of wind-cold cold is: fear of cold obviously, fever is relatively light, no sweat or less sweat, headache, muscle joint pain, nasal congestion, or sneezing, coughing, sputum spitting thin color white, thirst or thirst like to drink hot water. Wind-heat cold is mainly manifested as: fever is more obvious, slightly afraid of the wind, sweat, but sweat is not smooth, headache, cough, phlegm sticky or yellow, dry mouth and throat, or sore throat, or tonsils swollen pus, nasal congestion, runny nose, dry mouth and thirst, want to drink water. To make it simpler, the main difference between a wind-cold and a wind-heat cold is a sore throat. A sore throat is a wind-heat cold, or a wind-cold turned into a wind-heat cold, or a cold-within-a-fire type of cold (there is heat on the inside, and a cold on the outside). Wind-cold colds are often treated with pungent, warming and antiexpressive medicines. Commonly used proprietary Chinese medicines include: Cold and Flu Clearing Heat Punch, Cold and Flu Soft Capsule, and Jiuwei Qiangwu Pill. For wind-heat colds, pungent and cool remedies are often used, commonly used proprietary Chinese medicines include: Yin Qiao Xie Tu Pill (capsule, punch), Sang Ju Cold and Flu Tablet, Chai Yin Oral Liquid, Golden Flower Clear Feeling Pellet, Lotus Flower Clear Fever Capsule (granule), Golden Lotus Clear Fever Pellet, Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid, and Vitamin C Yin Qiao Tablet, etc. There are also a lot of other heat-removing and detoxifying medicines. In addition, there are also many Chinese patent medicines for clearing heat and removing toxins, such as Qinghejiedu Oral Liquid (Capsule, Punch), Qingkailing Oral Liquid (Capsule, Punch), Golden Lotus Capsule, Blue Scutellaria Oral Liquid, Fever Inflammation Granules and so on, which are on the cool side and are usually used for colds and flu with wind-heat or wind-cold and heat, and they have a better antiviral effect, but these medicines are weaker in relieving epidemiology, and need to be used in conjunction with the above mentioned cold medicines with the ability to relieve epidemiology. However, these medicines are weak in detoxifying power and need to be used together with the above mentioned cold medicines that have detoxifying power. If you have a wind-heat cold but only have pungent-warming and antiexpressive medicines at home for treating wind-cold colds, then you can use them together with heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines, which can also achieve the effect of pungent-cooling and antiexpressive. When you have a cold, in addition to timely medication, you should pay attention to rest and drink more water, especially when you have a fever, it is important to sleep and drink water! Have you chosen the right cold medicine?