A cold is a very common thing. Many friends just buy some cold medicine to eat as soon as they catch a cold, but it turns out that it has not improved. This is because you have not prescribed the right medicine. There are two kinds of colds: wind-heat and wind-cold. If they are cured, they will only aggravate discomfort. Here are the simplest ways to distinguish wind-heat from wind-cold. Cough, tongue, sputum and runny nose are all different. Wind-heat cold and wind-cold cold are distinguished according to the symptoms of cold, and neither of them is contagious.

The simplest way to distinguish wind-heat from wind-cold 1, the characteristics of cough

Wind-heat: The cough is hoarse, with a high voice and a rough wheezing sound.

Wind-cold: It is mostly a cough caused by cold entering the body at night. The voice is relatively low, but the cough is more severe.

2. Color of tongue coating

Wind-heat: The tip of the tongue is red, the fur is thin, white and yellowish, and the dry tongue always wants to drink water, so it is easy to break out in sweating, and there will be no feeling of sore limbs.

Wind-cold: the fur is thin and white, and there is no sweat, but I am afraid of cold, headache, body aches, limb aches, and I am not very thirsty. I just want to drink hot water.

3. Sputum

Wind-heat: the sputum is thick and difficult to cough up, and the color is yellow.

Wind-cold: The sputum is thin and white.

4. The condition of the throat

Wind-heat: sore throat, swollen throat, and pain when swallowing food and drinking water.

Wind-cold: generally, it won't hurt, but it will be a little uncomfortable after a long dry cough, but the tonsils are not red and swollen.

5, the situation of nasal mucus

Wind-heat: Like sputum, nasal mucus is thick and yellow and blue in color.

Cold: clear nose, transparent color.

Note that if you have a clear runny nose at first and then a yellow runny nose, there is inflammation in your body.

The symptoms of wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold are different, and the medication is also different. Mild wind-cold cold can generally be cured by physical fitness, but wind-heat cold usually needs to be treated with medicine. In short, it is right to prescribe the right medicine. Everyone should pay attention to weather changes and reduce the occurrence of diseases such as colds. In drug treatment, if you want to have a better curative effect, you need to go to a regular hospital for treatment.