What are the symptoms of cold cough

Coughing is a common symptom and many diseases may cause it. Among them, if classified according to the cause of cough and specific symptoms, cough can be divided into cold cough and hot cough. Although the symptoms of the two types of coughs are similar, their pathologies are very different. Therefore, when treating them, it is important to diagnose the type of cough in advance so that you can prescribe the right medicine!

1. Cold cough

Symptoms of cold cough: thin, white, foamy sputum, headache, nasal congestion, clear runny nose, or accompanied by fear of cold, chills, no sweating, pale red tongue, thin white fur, and floating and tight pulse.

Treatment: The treatment should be to dispel wind and cold, promote lung function and relieve cough.

Care: Keep the air in the room fresh, with appropriate temperature and humidity, and open windows regularly for ventilation.

Avoid eating sour and cool foods such as grapes, oranges, kiwis, mangoes, papayas, loquats, persimmons, monk fruit, raw radishes, raw sweet potatoes, watermelons, raw cucumbers, raw water chestnuts, mint, honeysuckle, chrysanthemums, etc. Also avoid eating sticky and greasy glutinous rice, longan meat, jujubes, white fungus, honey, etc.

2. Fever cough

The sputum of a hot cough is yellow-white and relatively sticky, and may be accompanied by other symptoms such as redness, swelling and pain in the throat, red tongue with yellow coating, dry mouth, yellow urine and dry stool.

For fever cough, you should use Chinese patent medicine that can clear the lungs, resolve phlegm, relieve cough and relieve asthma, such as Jizhi Syrup, Qingfei Xiaoyan Pills, Shiwei Longdanhua Granules, etc. If you have a dry cough without phlegm and a dry throat in autumn, you can choose medicines such as honey-refined Chuanbei loquat paste to clear heat and reduce phlegm, moisten the lungs and relieve cough.

3. How to distinguish between a wind-cold cough and a wind-heat cough?

If you are exposed to cold wind or rain, your body will catch a cold. The most obvious symptom is cold body surface, you need to wrap yourself tightly, and sometimes you have a runny nose and sneeze. Some people call this a wind-cold cold. If you cough at this time, it can be said to be a wind-cold cough.

This stage is what Chinese medicine calls the external cold stage. If you have a cough at this time, you can choose the Chinese patent medicine "Zhikebao Tablets". This Chinese patent medicine basically contains warming medicines, which can help the body's tissues resist. Remember not to use cold medicines.

If the body's resistance is poor, as the external evil penetrates deeper, the body's resistance forces begin to wage a fierce battle with the external evil, and many parts of the body become battlefields. The manifestation at this time is a series of heat symptoms: red throat, sore throat, fever, joint pain, cough, etc.; the diagnostic indications are: yellow sputum, yellow nasal discharge, sore throat, and increased body temperature. The cough is manifested by symptoms such as coughing up yellow sputum. At this time, it is a hot cough. The cough at this stage, with changes in cold and heat, is called acute internal injury cough.