Recently, there has been a sharp increase in the number of outpatients with influenza, and more and more patients are choosing Chinese medicine to fight against influenza, so how does Chinese medicine recognize “influenza” and how to treat it? 1.What is “seasonal flu”? It is epidemic, with a sharp increase in the number of cases in the same area and at the same time, with similar symptoms and heavier conditions than the common cold: sudden onset, vicious cold, fever (often high fever), body aches, fatigue and weakness. The “seasonal cold”, as it is called in later times, is the category of “seasonal disease”, which has the characteristics of contagiousness and similar symptoms. Warm pathologists believe that this disease is related to feeling the Qi of the epidemic. For example, Lin Peiqin’s “Classical evidence and treatment of the cold” proposed the name of “seasonal cold”. The disease is serious, rapid onset, significant systemic symptoms, can be transmitted, heat into the interior, secondary or combined with other diseases, with a wide range of infectious, epidemic. 2, the early stage of the disease: the onset of the disease is rapid, can be seen in the evil cold, fever, headache, body aches and pains, runny nose, dry or painful throat, cough, sputum white or yellow thick, red tongue, thin white or yellow or thick greasy coating, pulse floating number. Influenza Formula: Bulbus Fritillariae 15g forsythia 10g thorny mustard 10g sulforaphane 10 kudzu 15g qiang wei 10g orris 10g sangha 6g fried almonds 9 roasted ephedra 6 burdock 10g panax notoginseng 15 raw licorice 5g decoction with water? One to two doses daily. Add or subtract? Add Angelica dahurica for headache. For sore throat, add Angelica sinensis. For high fever with sweating, add gypsum. Add Chai Hu and Scutellaria for cold and heat. Constipation with wine and rhubarb? Cough and phlegm thick plus fishy grass, golden buckwheat? Chest tightness with Siberian stems? Thick and greasy tongue with patchouli, pelargonium and raw barley. Cough after fever subsides: Influenza cough formula: Roasted Ephedra 5g Bitter Almond 10g Su Ye 10g Fried Citrus Aurantium 9 Burdock 10g Roasted Aster 10g Radix Platycodon 6g Zha Bei Mu 10 Roasted Loquat Leaf 10g Cicada 10g Radix Rehmanniae 20g Raw Licorice 5g Decoction with water. One dose daily. Add and subtract: add Scutellaria baicalensis and Zhi Mu for yellow and sticky phlegm; add Bei Sha Shen for dry mouth, little phlegm and red tongue with little coating; add raw barley for greasy tongue. In addition, the patient should also take into account the original qi deficiency, yin deficiency, yang deficiency constitution, and handle as appropriate.