Problem description:

How to distinguish a cold from a hot cold? What's the difference between their symptoms?

Analysis:

There are three kinds of colds: exogenous wind and cold, exogenous wind and heat, exogenous summer and dampness.

Symptoms of exogenous wind-cold include chills, low fever, anhidrosis, headache, thin sputum, sore limbs, thin and wet tongue coating, and floating pulse.

Exogenous wind-heat is characterized by high fever, yellow phlegm, dry mouth, excessive sweating, white and dry tongue coating and rapid pulse.

Exogenous summer dampness mostly occurs in summer, which is caused by the invasion of dampness evil. The patient has high fever, dizziness, brain swelling, heart heat, fatigue, no sweat, dry mouth, accompanied by vomiting, nausea, scanty and yellow urine, yellow and greasy tongue coating, etc.

Colds caused by exogenous wind pathogens can also be divided into the above three types.

The main manifestations are mild fever, fear of wind, stuffy nose and runny nose, sore throat and cough, and slow pulse. Treating a cold is relatively easy. Sometimes, patients can "suppress" their illness by drinking more warm water, and they will recover without treatment. Try to drink boiled water when you have a cold, or add some vitamin C drinks, and try to drink less other drinks.