Can you take Huanglian Shangqing Tablets for colds?

If a cold is characterized by wind-heat attacking the lungs and stomach heat, it can be treated with Huanglian Shangqing Tablets under the guidance of a physician.
Huanglian Shangqing Tablet is a kind of common Chinese patent medicine in clinic, which is composed of rhubarb, forsythia, thorn mustard, Huanglian, peppermint, scutellaria, gardenia, antifungal, cypress, bramble seed, dahuric dahurica, chrysanthemum, and rhizoma ligustici chuanxiong, and so on.
Huanglian Shangqing Tablet has the effect of dispersing wind and clearing heat, diarrhea and pain relief, and can be taken for external wind-heat colds with symptoms such as dizziness, headache, sore throat and so on.
Huanglian Shangqing Tablets can not only treat the above mentioned diseases, but also can treat swollen and painful gums, mouth and tongue sores, earache and tinnitus, and dry and knotty stools and other diseases.
Huanglian Shangqing Tablet in the course of administration of occasional poor (poor appetite), anorexia, fatigue, yellow urine, ultrasound shows hepatomegaly, liver parenchymal damage, stop the drug or symptomatic treatment can be restored. Avoid spicy food; caution for pregnant women; prohibited for people with cold spleen and stomach. It is not advisable to take warming and tonic Chinese patent medicines at the same time during the period of taking the medicine.
The medication should be taken under the guidance of a professional physician, do not use the medication on your own, in order to avoid adverse consequences. If you feel unwell, please seek medical advice promptly.