How to distinguish 'wind-cold' from 'wind-heat'? How to deal with it fast? Chinese medicine tells you

"Cough cough cough."

When summer comes, there are suddenly many coughing people in every corner of the city, and Mr. Zhang is one of them.

Mr. Zhang has a cold these few days, and he has no fever. He feels that it is very troublesome to go to the hospital to do nucleic acid, so he simply waits for the disease to heal himself. Anyway, if you have a cold, you will be fine for a few days.

However, after 3 days, Mr. Zhang's symptoms not only eased, but his cough became more and more severe. He wanted to take some medicine to relieve himself, but when he saw the words " Treatment of wind-heat cold" written on the box , he was suddenly stunned - is he a wind-cold cold or a wind-heat cold? How are their symptoms different?

1. What is the difference between wind-heat flu and wind-cold flu?

In traditional Chinese medicine, colds are divided into very fine lines. The most common ones are wind-heat colds and wind-cold colds. However, many people have difficulty distinguishing the difference between the two. So what is the difference between wind-heat colds and wind-cold colds?

Judging from the pathogenesis , wind-cold syndrome is the invasion of wind and cold pathogens into the human body, while wind-heat syndrome is the invasion of wind and heat pathogens into the human body. Therefore, it is more likely to suffer from wind-cold cold in winter, and it is more likely to suffer from wind-heat cold in summer, but this is not absolute. In addition to being affected by seasons, wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold are also closely related to the body's constitution and living habits.

Judging from the symptoms , wind-cold cold is a cold without sweat , mainly manifested as mild fever, headache, sore joints, body pain, clear sputum, runny nose, white tongue coating and other symptoms. Wind-heat flu is a cold with sweating, which is mainly manifested as severe fever, aversion to wind, aversion to cold, thin and thick sputum, runny nose, red and yellow tongue coating and other symptoms.

2. To treat a cold, these folk remedies are not credible

It is said that there is no need to over-treat a cold, and we often hear about various folk remedies to treat a cold. These methods sound amazing, but can they really cure a cold?

1. Cover your body with sweat and catch a cold

Sweating can indeed drive away wind and heat evils in the body to a certain extent, but colds are divided into wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds, and sweating to drive away colds is only applicable to wind-cold colds. But for Fengreganmao, blind sweating is like adding fuel to the fire, and it will only aggravate the symptoms of internal heat.

2. Coke with ginger can cure colds

Some people think that the effect of boiling cola with ginger is the same as the effect of ginger brown sugar water, mainly relying on ginger to ward off cold, and cola instead of brown sugar only has the effect of increasing the sweetness.

In fact, cola is a carbonated drink, which contains caffeine, caramel color and sweeteners, and caffeine is not good for the child's nervous system and stomach. If the child was still taking ibuprofen to cool down, then the child's stomach will be more severely stimulated.

3. Can chili water soaking feet drive away the cold? The cold is not cured, the skin is still burned

Foot soaking has a certain inhibitory effect on early colds, but the medicinal materials for foot soaking should be selected appropriately. It is said that ginger can ward off cold. Like ginger, chili is a spicy and irritating food. Can adding chili when soaking your feet also have the effect of repelling cold?

Capsaicin is a histamine-like substance. Unlike ginger, it can cause dilation of blood vessels, sweating, runny nose, and dry mouth. It is too irritating and may cause burns and burns even if it is used externally. skin.

3. Chinese medicine teaches you how to treat wind heat and cold

It turns out that the methods we usually use to treat colds may not work, so how should we treat wind-heat and colds?

As we mentioned above, the incidence of wind heat and cold is high in summer, so how do we treat wind heat and cold?

First of all, the treatment of wind-heat cold is based on the principle of pungent cooling and relieving the table.

Patients can choose antiviral oral liquid, Ganmao antipyretic granules, Banlangen granules and other drugs for treatment to achieve the effect of cooling.

Second, drink plenty of warm water.

Warm water is recognized as a high-quality and inexpensive "anti-inflammatory drug". Of course, this " anti-inflammatory drug " needs to be quoted, it is not a real drug. You can choose to add an appropriate amount of salt to warm boiled water to dissipate internal heat. Drinking a lot of water and urinating during a cold can allow the body's internal heat to be excreted with urine, thereby achieving the purpose of cooling.

In addition, after the occurrence of a cold, the patient should rest well, maintain adequate sleep, and eat a light diet, so that the body has enough resistance to resist the cold and control the disease.

Colds are divided into wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds, with different symptoms and different treatment methods. If you want to get better from a cold quickly, symptomatic treatment is the key. Therefore, we must closely observe our physical condition, determine the type of cold, and choose appropriate methods for targeted treatment to avoid aggravating the disease.

References:

[1] Discrimination of wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold. Center for Drug Evaluation. 2019-01-04

[2] Li Yanming. Is the folk "home remedy" for colds really effective? [J]. Family Science, 2020.

[3] Wang Tianqi, Chen Ting, Yan Haifeng, et al. Analysis of medication rules of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of wind-heat and common cold [J]. Journal of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2018, 37(2):5.

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