Cold and nasal congestion is wind cold or wind heat, can not be judged only by the symptoms of nasal congestion, because no matter whether it is a wind cold or wind heat cold may have the symptoms of nasal congestion, so it is necessary to judge according to the other symptoms of wind cold or wind heat cold.
2 How to determine the wind-cold and wind-heat cold
1, sweat: sweat belongs to the wind-heat cold; no sweat belongs to the wind-cold cold.
2, phlegm: thick and cloudy is a wind-heat cold; more clear and thin is a wind-cold cold.
3. Nasal mucus: yellowish and turbid is for wind-heat colds; clearer and thinner is for wind-cold colds.
4. Different causes: wind-heat colds are caused by external wind-heat; wind-cold colds are caused by wind and cold.
5, the time of occurrence is not quite the same: wind and heat colds are mostly seen in the summer and fall; wind and cold colds occur more often in the fall and winter.
3 Difference between the symptoms of wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold Symptoms of wind-cold cold
Mostly occurs in the cold season, such as winter, late fall and early spring, it is a disease caused by feeling cold. Fever is light, cold is heavy, no sweat, headache, body pain, nasal discharge, cough, pharynx is not red and swollen, tongue is light and red, pulse is floating and tight.
Symptoms of wind-heat coldMostly occurs in the warm weather season, such as spring, early summer and early fall, etc., is the feeling of wind-heat evil caused by the disease. Symptoms of wind-heat cold are fever, mild cold, sweating or less sweating, headache, nasal congestion, sore throat, red tongue, pulse (i.e., rapid pulse beat).
4 Cold and Nasal Congestion Discriminative Treatment External wind-cold nasal congestion
Xinyihua 9g, Qiangwu 9g, Fenghuang 9g, Ligusticum 9g, Cang Erzi 9g, Ligusticum 9g, Angelica dahuricae 15g, Xinxin 3g, Ascophyllum 9g, Glycyrrhiza glabra 6g, Mutong 6g; decocted with water and taken 1 dose per day, morning and evening divided into doses.
Functions: Qiangwu, Fangfeng, Ligustrum to disperse wind and cold to promote lung; Xinyi flowers, Cang Erzi, Rhizoma Ligusticum, Angelica dahurica, fine Xin to relieve the surface and pass the orifices; ascending hemp, licorice to promote Yang to relieve the surface; Mutong to promote dampness and pass the orifices.
Functions: the formula to mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, mint wind clearing heat and lung; honeysuckle, Scutellaria baicalensis, forsythia clearing heat and detoxification; Cang Er Zi, Angelica dahurica diuretic turbidity through the orifices; fried almonds, Platycodon grandiflorus to promote the lung to stop coughing.