The cold is a disease that people are very prone to in their daily lives. Whenever there is a change of seasons, or when one's habits are poor, one's body will be affected by some external factors and one will catch a cold. Then in Chinese medicine, there are two types of colds, one is wind-cold cold and the other is wind-heat cold. The reasons for these two types of colds are different, as are the symptoms and the medications used to treat them.

For the wind-cold cold, this kind of cold mostly occurs in the cold winter, may also appear in the late fall or early spring season, is the body suffered from the cold and caused by the disease. In our common language, it means that the body is cold and freezing. The symptoms of this kind of cold are, body fever is relatively light, but the cold is particularly heavy, do not sweat. The patient will feel a headache and the muscles in the body will be sore. At the same time, there will be a runny nose, the runny nose are some clear snot. Some patients also have coughing and other symptoms.

So for the wind-heat cold, this kind of cold usually occurs in the warmer time, such as spring or hot summer. The temperature difference between morning and evening at this time is not too big, but there will be heat evil attacking our body, causing colds. The clinical symptoms of this kind of cold are usually characterized by a heavy fever, sometimes with a high fever. At the same time, sweating and headache may accompany the symptoms. Wind-heat colds are usually characterized by nasal congestion or the kind of thicker nasal discharge, and a sore throat that is unusually uncomfortable.

The above is the difference between a wind-heat cold and a wind-cold cold, which is actually caused by one being cold and the other being hot and on fire. So for us ordinary people, we must be based on their own symptoms, take the right medicine, so that the medicine to the disease. In the usual time must pay attention to keep warm, especially the seasonal exchange of more boiled water, eat less spicy food, try to eat a light diet, so as to maintain health. Then the above views are only for reference, there is a disease in time to seek medical attention.