How to distinguish between wind-heat cough and wind-cold cough

Wind-heat cough and wind-cold cough are two types of cough, which can be differentiated from each other by their causes, clinical manifestations and tongue coating. Wind-heat cough is a cough caused by wind-heat that violates the lungs. Common symptoms are cough with yellow mucous sputum or thick sputum that is not easy to cough up, yellow pus nasal discharge, sore throat, yellow urine, dry stools, thirst, red tongue, thin yellow moss, etc. It can be treated by taking Sang Ju Drink orally. This formula should not be used for people with wind-cold cough. Wind-cold cough is a cough caused by wind-cold attacking the lungs, the common symptoms are cough with thin white sputum, itchy pharynx, headache, nasal congestion, runny nose, chills (fear of cold), fever, generalized body aches and pains, no sweating, and a thin white coating on the tongue, etc. This formula can be used to treat the symptoms by taking San’ao Tang combined with Stopping Cough. Yin deficiency and laborious cough or lung-heat cough should not be treated with Cough Stopper. If the patient has a persistent cough that does not subside, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time to find out the specific cause of the disease, and then carry out targeted treatment, do not take medication without authorization.