The symptoms of wind-cold flu are cold and fever, headache, body aches and pains, and the treatment is pungent, warm and symptomatic; the symptoms of wind-heat flu are high fever, thirst and sore throat, and the treatment is pungent, cool and symptomatic.　　Influenza has a rapid onset, high fever, headache, body aches and pains, and is highly contagious. Influenza is a wind-heat cold in Chinese medicine, and the treatment is evacuating the wind, clearing heat and removing toxins.　　Usually, young and middle-aged people suffering from colds are mostly hot, mainly characterized by red face and eyes, fever and headache, nausea and vomiting, dry throat and tongue, cough with thick phlegm, nasal congestion, no snot, slight sweating and dry stools, etc. If the symptoms are characterized by fever, sore throat, headache and body ache, it is very contagious. If the symptoms are mainly fever and sore throat, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic medicine, antelope cold and flu tablets, silver cocktail tablets, mulberry and chrysanthemum cold and flu tablets and cold and flu clearing can be used. If the symptoms are less severe, proprietary Chinese medicines containing Panlangen, Dazhongye, honeysuckle, Chaihu, Lianqiao, chrysanthemum and other ingredients can be used. During the medication period, avoid eating warm food, such as dog meat, mutton, scallop fish, crucian carp, shrimp, cinnamon, lychee, walnuts, oranges, leeks, cilantro, chili peppers, ginger, scallions, alcohol and so on.　　Those who are old and weak or have a weak constitution suffer from cold, mostly cold, mainly manifested as fever and headache, cold and no sweat, light mouth and no thirst, cough and sputum, nasal discharge and loose stools. Patients can use Chai Hu Drinking Punch or proprietary Chinese medicines containing ingredients such as windbreak, thorns, almonds, perilla leaves, and so on. If the symptoms of bad cold are not obvious, it can take fast-acting cold capsule and so on. During the period of medication, cold foods such as duck, mackerel, crab, cucumber, bitter melon, spinach, eggplant, wild rice, kelp, banana, persimmon, sorbet, watermelon, etc. should be avoided.　　In addition, whether suffering from wind-cold or wind-heat cold, should avoid eating fatty meat, eggs and fried, fried, spicy food.