The cold medicine used for wind-heat cold should be based on clearing the heat and detoxifying the toxins and cooling the surface, you can take silver forsythia antitoxin tablets, wind-heat cold granules, mulberry cold tablets or Shuang Huang Lian oral liquid. If the phlegm is sticky and yellow, use antibiotics such as amoxicillin or cephalosporin. Also, it is important to eat more easily digestible food, drink more water and eat more fruits and vegetables to replenish vitamins and plant fiber. Wind-heat colds are common in spring and are characterized by a painful cough in the throat, nasal congestion and a runny yellow nose.