First, wind-heat cough:

Caused by external heat or heat in the lungs, the sputum is thick and yellow, the nose is yellow, the throat is sore, the body is hot and sweaty, and the nose is as hot as fire. Treatment should be clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, expelling wind and relieving cough.

Second, cold cough:

Common all year round, caused by cold, thin and white phlegm, clear nose, headache and fever, fear of cold, no sweat and so on. The pulse is floating and the tongue coating is thin and white. Treatment should be to dispel wind and cold, to spread lung and relieve cough.

Third, the ways for patients to identify themselves mainly include the following:

1. Fear of cold, fever and no sweating, which are important characteristics of cold cough. And wind-heat cough, fever and sweating.

2. Cold cough is thin and white, which is different from wind-heat cough.

3. The color of the tongue is light, and the coating of the tongue is white, greasy and moist, which is different from the red tongue and yellow and dry coating of hot cough.

4. Some coughs are complicated, and the nature of cold and heat is difficult to distinguish. You should ask an experienced Chinese medicine doctor for diagnosis and treatment, or you can use the detection of acupoints to make clear the cold and heat deficiency of lung meridians.

Common methods to prevent cough

1. Strengthening one's own resistance is always the best way to prevent diseases. Everyone should pay more attention to physical exercise at ordinary times, especially to participate in more sports activities, which is very helpful to improve one's resistance.

2. Many friends don't have the habit of paying attention to the weather. In fact, they just need to take a minute to look at it every day, and they should add clothes in time according to the weather changes to prevent colds and coughs.

3. Every year when the weather starts to get cold, the flu virus is easy to appear. At this time, everyone had better go to public places less to reduce the chance of being infected by the virus.

4. Some coughs belong to allergic cough, which usually happens to friends who like to eat seafood, so friends who are prone to seafood allergies must avoid eating seafood and focus on a light diet.

Some friends don't have the habit of opening windows at home, especially when the weather gets cold. In fact, this is not good, and it is easy to get infected with viruses in a closed space, so always open windows to ventilate the room.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-hot cough