Post Date December, 03 2023
Cold is extremely common, and everyone will get it. Many people believe that a cold is not a serious illness and it is too troublesome to go to a hospital for treatment. Therefore, many people choose to buy medicine from pharmacies for self treatment. Some people think that western medicine can not be used casually, and traditional Chinese patent medicines and simple preparations is safer. Some people take traditional Chinese patent medicines and simple preparations, and their colds really get better, but some people take medicine, and their condition increases. How to choose traditional Chinese patent medicines and simple preparations to treat colds?
The doctor pointed out that most people believe that antiviral treatment is necessary for a cold, so antipyretic and detoxifying drugs, as well as cough and lung clearing and phlegm resolving drugs, are widely used. By chance, they take care of the situation. If a cold is not cured, it will not only worsen but also worsen, and the mental state will also be very poor. It is unknown that the application of traditional Chinese patent medicines and simple preparations should also be selected according to the specific symptoms of each person. Because the nature of disease and pathogen felt by each patient is different, the choice of drugs for treatment is different. Generally speaking, besides influenza, there are two common types of colds in clinical practice: wind cold and wind heat syndrome, and the choice of medication for these two types of colds is completely opposite. If there is fever, runny nose, sore throat, redness, swelling, and yellow phlegm during coughing, medication should be given to clear heat and detoxify, relieve cough, clear lung, and dissipate phlegm. If there is no phlegm during coughing, it is unreasonable to give medication to relieve cough, clear lung, and dissipate phlegm; Some people have fever, but the discharge of clear snot and cough of clear phlegm are probably caused by coldness, and should be given the drugs of pungent warming, cold dispersing, warming the lungs and phlegm resolving. At this time, if the drugs of heat clearing and detoxification are used again, there will be no effect, so the application of traditional Chinese patent medicines and simple preparations needs to be treated according to syndrome differentiation.
Windchill cold
Elderly people, children, or physically weak individuals may develop illnesses due to careless living, occasional cold or dampness. Main symptoms: fever, aversion to cold, headache, lack of or low sweating, heavy nasal congestion, sneezing, runny nose, sore throat, cough, and joint pain. The treatment mainly focuses on relieving external symptoms with Xin Wen, and options include Mahuang Tang, Guizhi Tang, Huoxiang Zhengqi San, etc; For those with mild symptoms, drinking ginger brown sugar water is both convenient and effective. Traditional Chinese patent medicines and simple preparations includes San'ao Tablets, Cold and Cold Granules, Cold and Heat Clearing Granules, etc.
Wind heat cold
Cold due to wind heat is often caused by the feeling of wind heat evil energy. Most of the symptoms are severe fever, mild or no aversion to wind cold, headache, no nasal congestion or nasal congestion, sore throat, heavy cough, yellow phlegm, no sweat or poor sweating, dry and thirsty mouth, sharp red tongue edge, thin white and slightly yellow fur, and floating pulse. The principle of treatment is to cool and relieve external heat, and to clear heat and detoxify. The main ingredient is Yinqiao Powder. Traditional Chinese patent medicines and simple preparations commonly used for wind heat cold include Shuanghuanglian oral liquid, Pudilan anti-inflammatory oral liquid, Andrographis paniculata dropping pills, Lingqiao detoxification tablets (pills), etc.
Don't look at just a small cold, but medication choices are very particular. Only by treating based on syndrome differentiation and selecting corresponding drugs can the disease be cured.
