Symptoms of typhoid fever

Typhoid fever is also a common type of cold, which is classified from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine. Typhoid fever often causes pain in the back of the head, body aches, and fever. Usually, covering yourself with more quilts and keeping warm will make you feel more comfortable. It is easy to cause symptoms of chills. In addition to medication, you can eat more foods that can generate heat, which will help relieve symptoms and aid in treatment.

Symptoms of typhoid fever

Traditional Chinese medicine generally divides colds into two categories: wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds. A cold is usually caused by fatigue, lack of rest, wind or cold. Colds usually occur more frequently in autumn and winter. Its characteristic symptoms are:

1. Severe pain in the back of the head, which is accompanied by difficulty in turning the neck and even soreness all over the body.

2. Afraid of cold and wind, usually need to wear a lot of clothes or cover with a big quilt to feel comfortable.

3. Sneezing, runny nose, white or slightly yellowish; heavy nasal congestion. If you have a stuffy nose but no runny nose, drinking some hot water will cause clear runny nose, which is also a cold caused by wind and cold.

4. The tongue has no coating or a thin white coating.

5. Aversion to cold, no fever or mild fever, and no sweating.

6. The pulse is floating and tight. Floating pulse means that the Yang Qi is on the surface and can be felt with light touch.

How to prevent colds

1. Strengthen exercise and enhance the body's adaptability: adding or removing clothes in time when the climate changes, paying attention to keeping warm, and being cautious about contact with patients with colds to avoid invasion of evil spirits, etc., play an important role in preventing colds.

2. Preventive medication: Generally, it can greatly reduce the incidence of colds. The main medicines include radix smilax, isatis indigotica, root of isatis, herba communis, patchouli, perilla, mint, and schizonepeta. As the seasons change, the medicines used to prevent colds also vary. For example, in winter and spring, use Guanzhong, Perilla, and Schizonepeta; in summer, use Patchouli, Cymbidium and Mentha. The decocting time of the medicine should be short to preserve the aroma and volatile effective substances. Those without sweat should drink hot porridge or cover themselves with a blanket after taking the medicine to promote sweating and relieve the symptoms. After sweating, change into dry and clean clothes in time to avoid being affected by the evil again.

3. Diet and daily life: Patients with colds should get adequate rest, drink plenty of water, eat vegetarian liquid food, and be careful about eating greasy and difficult to digest foods. Common foods such as onions, garlic and vinegar also have a preventive effect. The bedroom should have adequate ventilation, but no direct wind.

If colds are not treated in time, they can cause great harm to the body. In addition, if you catch a cold, you should seek the best solution and try to get rid of the disease as soon as possible.