What kind of medicine should I take for wind-cold flu?
Wind-cold type cold: the patient in addition to nasal congestion, sneezing, coughing, headache and other general symptoms, there are cold, low fever, no sweat, muscle pain, runny nose, spitting thin white sputum, sore throat, mouth is not thirsty or thirst for hot drinks, thin white moss, etc., usually have to wear a lot of clothes or cover a large quilt to feel more comfortable. This kind of cold is related to the patient feeling wind-cold. Treatment should be based on the principle of relieving the symptoms with pungent warmth. The patient can be treated with medicines such as Cold and Cold Punch, Cold and Heat Clearing Punch, Nine-flavored Qiangwu Pill, Tongxuan Lung Pill, Noon Tea Granules and so on. If the patient has the symptom of internal heat and constipation, he can take Fangfeng Tongsheng Pill for treatment. Patients with wind-cold cold should not use medicines such as Sangju Cold and Flu Tablets, Yinqiao Antidote Tablets, Antelope Antidote Tablets, and Compound Cold and Flu Tablets. The key to treating wind-cold cold is to sweat a little (known as pungent warmth to relieve the epidermis in Chinese medicine), and there are many ways to do this, including sauna, soaking the feet in hot water (preferably with a little wine), covering two layers of quilt, drinking ginger water, ginger porridge, and so on. The main treatment for wind-cold colds is Gui Zhi Tang, the first formula in the theory of typhoid fever, also known as the king of peace (ephedra soup is also the main treatment for wind-cold colds, but it is used with caution in the south)