Wind-heat cold: intense fever, mild aversion to cold, headache, sore throat, swelling (or pain), or dry mouth, cough, yellow and thick expectoration, thin white and yellowish tongue coating, and floating pulse. Use pungent drugs to relieve exterior symptoms, such as Sangju Ganmao Tablet or Yinqiao Jiedu Pill, Lingqiao Jiedu Pill and LingGan Yang Ganmao Tablet. Notopterygium root pill and Li Fei pill cannot be selected. Misuse can lead to an increase in body temperature and an increase in sore throat.
Third, cold and dampness stagnation: wind-cold exterior syndrome, fever and aversion to cold, hypothermia, headache. There is phlegm-dampness in the stomach, fullness in the epigastrium, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Drugs that can relieve exterior dampness can be selected; Huoxiang Zhengqi Pill or Huoxiang Zhengqi Water. Bao Hewan and hawthorn pill are not allowed.
Fourth, internal and external double feelings: heat is strong and aversion to cold, headache and dizziness, bitter mouth and dry mouth, sore throat, or cough and asthma, constipation and red urine. Drugs that can relieve exterior and interior, such as Fangfeng Tongsheng Pill, should be selected.
Five, qi deficiency and cold: weak body, low resistance, usually easy to sweat, not cold-resistant. Symptoms include fatigue, loss of appetite, mild fever, runny nose, persistent or repeated colds. This type is not suitable for evacuation, and the effect of common cold medicine is not good, so it is appropriate to strengthen the body resistance and eliminate evil, replenish qi and relieve exterior syndrome. It can be treated with Buzhong Yiqi Pill.
Symptoms of a cold:
The common cold in winter and spring is generally characterized by internal accumulation of heat and external cold, so patients often have symptoms of getting angry such as sore throat. In this way, while taking Ganmao Qingre Granules, you can also properly cooperate with some Banlangen Granules and Niuhuang Shangqing Pills to remove indoor accumulated heat.
If a cold is accompanied by symptoms such as bloating, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, abdominal distension and loose stool, and thick and greasy tongue coating, Weibaohe Pill and Jianwei Xiaoshi Tablet can be added to help digestion and eliminate accumulation.
If the common cold is characterized by severe cough, even persistent choking, and the day is light and the night is heavy, it can be combined with Xuan Tong Li Fei Pill and Zhike Ningsou Capsule to relieve exterior syndrome, relieve cough and eliminate phlegm.
Some families keep proprietary Chinese medicines:
(1) Yinqiao Jiedu Pill: Honeysuckle and Forsythia are toxic to wind and heat. It can be used for treating wind-heat cold. If you have a heavy fever, a little cold, and basically don't sweat, you can take it even if you don't sweat much, your head is swollen and painful, your whole body is weak, your limbs are lazy, you are thirsty and thirsty, and you have a sore throat. 65438+ 0-2 or 4-6 capsules each time, twice a day.
(2) Ganmao Qingre Granule: It can be used to accumulate heat in the body and exogenous wind and cold, causing fever, chills, headache, general malaise, runny nose, cough, bitter taste and dry throat. You can choose this medicine for clearing away heat and relieving exterior syndrome. 1 bag or 2 bags each time, twice a day.
(3) Fangfeng Tongsheng Pill, which treats both the exterior and the interior: if the cold is not treated in time, it will be delayed for a long time, and there will be exogenous, fever, cold, headache, bitter taste, dry throat and stuffy nose. : it has accumulated heat, constipation and yellow urine, and is effective. Six grams twice a day.
(4) Jiuwei Qianghuo Pill: it is mainly used for treating cold and cold, and has the functions of relieving exterior syndrome, expelling wind and removing dampness, and relieving pain. Exogenous cold, rheumatic pain, hyperhidrosis, etc. Take 6-9g each time, 2 13 times a day, with ginger and onion soup or warm water.
(5) Sangju Ganmao Tablet is specially used for treating colds and coughs: slight fever, slight aversion to cold, stuffy nose, headache, thirst, sore throat and obvious cough, such as influenza, bronchitis and pharyngitis. , can be used for dispersing wind and heat, dispersing lung and relieving cough. Four tablets each time, twice a day.
(6) In summer, you need to take Xiang Lei Zhengqi water for colds: in midsummer, when you are cold outside, you will feel wet and turbid inside, with fever and chills, headache, chest tightness and abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, bowel sounds and diarrhea, and your mouth is tasteless. Therefore, the treatment should be to dispel cold, dampness and turbidity. Every time 10 ml, twice a day. You can also take Huoxiang Zhengqi Pills, 1-2 capsules each time, and warm boiled water or ginger soup twice a day.
Treating colds with Chinese patent medicine needs syndrome differentiation and treatment.
According to the etiology, medicine divides colds into three types (sometimes more): wind-cold type, wind-heat type and summer-heat type, and there are also differences in symptoms and medication.
Wind-cold-type cold has severe aversion to cold, mild fever, obvious headache and joint pain, heavy nasal congestion, runny nose, dry mouth but not thirst, white and thin sputum when coughing, no obvious sore throat, or only itchy throat, red tongue and thin white fur. It is advisable to disperse the lung and cold, pungent and warm. Chinese patent medicines listed in the national OTC list, such as Ganmao Ganmao Granules, Ganmao Qingre Granules (oral liquid), Lingqiao Jiedu Pills, Su Shen Pills (capsules and tablets) and Wushicha Granules (tea), can be selected. You can also use 30 grams of green onions, 9 grams of fermented beans and 9 grams of ginger at home.
Wind-heat type cold has severe fever, mild aversion to cold, or mild aversion to cold, dry throat and pain, even swelling and pain of throat and tonsils, stuffy nose, yellow runny nose, thirst, cough, phlegm, red tongue edge and tip, and thin yellow fur. It is advisable to use pungent drugs to relieve exterior symptoms, such as Fengre Ganmao Granules, Lingqiao Jiedu Pills, LingGan Yang Ganmao Tablets or Radix Isatidis, and Sangju Ganmao Tablets (granules and Ganmao Pills), Yinqiao Jiedu Granules (tablets, pills, granules and capsules), Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid and Yinchai Granules can be selected.
Summer-heat type colds are mostly caused by summer dampness, dizziness, polydipsia, vomiting or diarrhea, and may be accompanied by fever, aversion to cold, headache or general pain, insufficient diet, white and greasy tongue coating, etc. It is advisable to clear heat and relieve summer heat, clear qi and dissipate heat, and turn fragrance into turbidity. You can choose Huoxiang Zhengqi Water (granule, capsule, mixture, concentrated pill), Liuhe Zhong Ding Pill, and Shidishui, or you can take Ren Dan orally and use cooling oil and mint tablets externally.
Chinese patent medicine for treating common cold
Cold diseases are generally divided into "common cold" (that is, common cold) and "seasonal cold" (that is, influenza), which occur in all seasons, so it is also called "four-season cold", but it is more common in winter and spring. The main clinical manifestations are fear of cold (aversion to cold), fever, headache, stuffy nose, runny nose, sneezing and even body aches. These symptoms are light and heavy, and the light one is called "cold"; The worst case scenario is that it will be widespread for a period of time, regardless of gender, age, and symptoms are similar, that is, "I caught a cold at that time."
A cold in winter is caused by exogenous wind and cold. However, due to the differences in people's usual physique, diet, daily life and work and rest, although they feel cold, their symptoms are also different. Generally divided into wind-cold type and wind-heat type.
Wind-cold type cold: aversion to cold, no sweat, headache, nasal congestion, sneezing, sore throat, no fever or low fever (below 38℃), or cough, white and thin sputum, or general aches. You can take cold soft capsules, 2-4 capsules at a time, three times a day. Drink hot porridge or hot noodle soup, drink more hot boiled water, and rest the bedspread after sweating (not just on your head, but all over your body) to avoid catching cold again; If you have a severe cough, shortness of breath, runny nose, chills, no sweat, mild fever, and sore limbs due to a cold, you can take Xuan Tong Li Fei Pills, 1-2 capsules each time, twice a day. Send it with light ginger soup or warm water. If you have a heavy cough and a lot of phlegm, you can send it with pear flower soup or white radish soup.
Wind-cold type, if the patient has fever in the lung and stomach, dry throat and less sweating, he can take Ganmao Qingre Granule (sugar-free type) 1 bag and Banlangen Granule 1 bag, and take it with boiling water three times a day.
Wind-heat type cold (not feeling the evil of wind-heat, but because of personality differences of many factors such as constitution, fever will appear immediately after feeling cold, and the fever will be below 38.5℃), slight aversion to cold, or sweating, headache, nasal congestion, runny nose, dry mouth, sore throat, or cough, thick phlegm or yellow phlegm, and the whole body is sour and lazy, you can take Yinqiao Jiedu Pill (tablet). If fever is not serious, cough is frequent, dry mouth and sore throat, you can take Sangju Ganmao tablets, 4-8 tablets each time, 2-3 times a day, and take them with warm water. For severe dry mouth and sore throat, add a bag of Radix Isatidis granules and take it with boiling water.
Wind-heat cold type, if the patient has lung and stomach heat, heavy cough, yellow and thick phlegm, dry mouth and sore throat, antelope Qingfei pill can be taken twice a day with warm water.
The above two kinds of "common cold" and "seasonal cold" belong to simple cold diseases. If a cold causes other diseases, such as "pneumonia" with persistent high fever, or gastrointestinal symptoms such as vomiting and defecation, you should go to the hospital without delay.