With the recent arrival of spring, so many people are catching colds. Cold and flu viruses spread quickly in the warm spring air, making it not only hard on yourself, but also easy to spread to your family. Today we will tell you what colds are all about Since we were young, almost none of us have not had a cold. Some people may think that it’s just a week with or without medication, so they choose to rest and let their bodies carry it through, or keep “drinking hot water” to treat it under the persuasion of friends and family, while others will be more impatient and go straight to buy a few tablets of Western-style medicine to go down their stomachs. Of course, many people will choose to take Chinese medicine. However, compared to the standardization and uniformity of Western medicine, Chinese medicine is more evidence-based and therefore appears to be somewhat “complicated”. This is because Chinese medicine emphasizes the nature of colds. From ancient times to the present, Chinese sages have dealt with colds too often and have accumulated a wealth of experience in treating colds. The main cause of colds is the attack of six external influences (wind, cold, summer, dampness, dryness and fire) and seasonal viruses on the human body, with wind being the main cause. However, in different seasons, often with other seasonal gas will meet and hurt people, such as winter is mostly wind-cold, spring is mostly wind-heat, summer is mostly summer dampness, fall is more and more dryness, rainy season is more wet. Therefore, colds are common and frequent diseases, and they occur at all times of the year. Although it is a superficial evidence, the disease is light, but the treatment is not timely or inappropriate treatment, to the depth of the evil, often involving the lungs or induced by chronic diseases, or even cause heart, kidney disease. Generally speaking, Chinese medicine classifies common colds into four categories (there are also other categories): wind-cold colds, wind-heat colds, summer-damp colds and seasonal colds (influenza). 1, wind-cold type cold Symptom analysis: wind-cold evil outside the bundle muscle surface, Wei Yang was curbed, so see the cold, fever, no sweat; Qing Yang does not show, and the loss of the veins, headache, limb aches and pains; wind-cold uptake, the lungs do not propagate the nasal congestion and runny nose, throat itching and coughing; cold for the yin, so the mouth is not thirsty or thirst like hot drinks; tongue coating thin white and moist, pulse floating tight, are all the surface of the cold signs. Clinical symptoms: severe cold, light fever, no sweating, headache, limb pain, nasal congestion, heavy voice, when the flow of clear mucus, itchy throat, cough, sputum thin color white, mouth is not thirsty or thirst for hot drinks. The tongue is thin, white and moist, and the pulse is floating or tight. Treatment principle: choose the pungent, warm and symptomatic drugs. 2, wind-heat type cold Symptom analysis: wind-heat offenses the surface, the heat is rich in the muscle coupling, the surface of the guard is out of harmony, so see the heat of the body, slightly evil wind, sweating; wind-heat on the disturbance of the head distension; wind-heat of the evil fumigation of the clear channel, so the throat is swollen and painful, dry throat, thirst, nose flow turbid; wind-heat offenses the lungs, lungs are not clear and clean, then coughing, phlegm viscous or yellow; moss is thin white and yellowish, tongue edge tip of the red, pulse floating for wind-heat invasion of the lungs and guards of the symptoms. Clinical symptoms: body heat is more prominent, slightly malignant wind, sweating, headache, cough, phlegm viscous or yellow, dry throat, or sore throat, red and swollen, nasal congestion, flow of yellow turbid mucus, thirst for water. Tongue with thin white emblematic yellow coating, red edges, and floating pulse. Therapeutic principle: pungent and cool medicines for symptomatic relief. 3. summer dampness type cold Symptom analysis: summer cold, feel the seasonal summer evil, summer more hostage wet, every more summer wet and heavy, summer dampness injuries to the surface, the surface and the guards are not and, so the body heat, slightly evil wind, sweat, limb aches and pains; wind and summer heat and dampness, on the offense of the clear air, dizziness, heavy distension and pain; summer heat offending lungs, lungs are not clear, so coughing sputum viscous, turbid nasal flow; summer heat within the disturbances, the heat burns the fluids, then distraction, thirst, urination, short and red; dampness and heat obstruction, the gas mechanism Not show, so chest tightness, generalized evil, sticky mouth, thirst is not much to drink; tongue coating thin yellow greasy, pulse Confucian number for the summer heat and dampness of the signs. Clinical symptoms: body heat, slight wind, sweat, limb acidity or pain, dizziness, heavy swelling, cough, phlegm, nasal discharge, heartburn and thirst, or sticky mouth, thirst and drink, chest tightness, generalized evil, short red urine. Thin yellowish and greasy tongue coating, moist pulse. Therapeutic principle: medicines that clear away summer heat, dispel dampness and relieve symptoms. 4. Seasonal colds (influenza) mainly refers to malignant viral colds, which, although called colds, can never be treated in the same way as the first three winds. The onset of its rapid, highly contagious, often can cause a widespread epidemic; influenza, if not treated in time, can become other diseases, such as viral myocarditis. The principle of treatment: prevention in the first place So what can we do to prevent colds? About prevention Other treatments for wind-cold colds: including sauna, soaking feet in hot water (preferably with some wine), covering two layers of blankets, drinking ginger water, ginger porridge and so on. For colds, prevention is most important. Strengthening physical exercise and enhancing physical fitness is an important means of resisting colds. At the same time, you should also develop good personal hygiene habits and reasonable dietary habits, to prevent the problem before it occurs. 1, as long as the cold can be timely and appropriate treatment, can be faster to heal. However, for the elderly, infants, young children, and frail patients, attention must be paid to prevent the occurrence of transmission, or at the same time mixed with other diseases. 2, pay attention to the wind to keep warm, in order to prevent recurrence. 3.Drink more boiled water and rest appropriately.