According to Chinese medicine, colds can generally be divided into two categories: wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds. These two types of colds differ greatly in their etiology, symptoms, treatment principles and medication. So what are the differences between wind-cold and wind-heat colds? First of all, let’s understand what is wind-cold cold and what is wind-heat cold. First, what is wind-cold cold? 1, wind-cold cold: mostly occurs in the cold season, such as winter, late autumn and early spring, is the disease caused by feeling cold. 2.Symptoms: light fever, heavy chill, no sweating, headache and body pain, clear runny nose, cough, no redness and swelling in the throat, light red tongue, floating and tight pulse. 3.Treatment: Use pungent warmth to relieve the symptoms, commonly used Chinese medicine such as Pediatric Zhi Bao Wan. 4. Dietary advice: foods that disperse cold and generate sweat need to be eaten. The main food can be cooked porridge with white onion, red oil noodles with chili, tea can be taken with ginger brown sugar tea, ginger shiso tea, brewed with boiling water, sweat is cured. Second, what is wind-heat cold? 1, wind-heat cold: mostly occurs in the warm climate season, such as spring, early summer and early autumn, is the feeling of wind-heat disease caused by evil. 2. Symptoms: heavy fever, light chills, sweating or less sweating, headache, stuffy nose, sore throat, red tongue, pulse (i.e., pulse beats faster). 3, treatment: the use of pungent cool relief, commonly used proprietary Chinese medicine, such as pediatric fever quickly clear oral liquid, pediatric black bean curd clear fever particles, pediatric cold particles (oral liquid). 4, dietary advice: diet needs to eat heat-clearing and fire-removing food. Staple food can be used mung bean porridge, tea can be used honeysuckle 5, boiling water, several cups a day, vegetables can eat cold mung bean sprouts, winter melon soup, fruits of watermelon, pears, apples can also be. It is better to avoid too big fish and meat or eating other tonic products. Third, how to distinguish between wind-cold and wind-heat cold? 1. Season: Generally speaking, in autumn and winter, most of the children’s colds are wind-cold, that is, they feel the wind-cold attack, so they should be treated as wind-cold colds during this period; when in summer, they are generally prone to wind-heat colds, that is, external wind-heat. 2, sputum color and texture: general cold and cough will have sputum, if the child’s sputum is more dilute white, it means that the wind-cold cold; if the cough has thick sputum, more yellow thick, it means that it is likely to be caused by wind-heat cold. Many children do not spit out phlegm, parents should let their children try to learn to spit more, spitting out will be much better. 3. Whether the throat is sore: Generally speaking, wind-cold colds do not have sore throats, just dry coughs, but no redness or swelling, etc.; if the throat is more sore, with redness and swelling and painful swallowing things, it means it is a wind-heat cold. 4, the nasal aspect: when children have a cold, generally will be runny nose, if it is flowing with a clear nose, it means that it is generally wind-cold cold; if the nose is thicker, and some yellowish, it means that it is wind-heat cold. Note that sometimes, at first it is clear nasal discharge, but later it becomes yellow nasal discharge, which means that the child has inflammation. 5, whether dry mouth: If the mouth is not dry, it means it is wind-cold cold; if the mouth is dry, the child always wants to drink water, always feel thirsty, it means it is wind-heat cold.