Is there a big difference between a cold caused by wind and heat?

Wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds are the two most common types of colds, but the symptoms they present are completely different, such as nasal congestion, cough, headache, fever, thirst, etc. Patients must carefully distinguish them.

Differences in symptoms:

1. Nasal congestion

Wind-cold cold: nasal congestion, heavy sneezing, and frequent clear nasal discharge; wind-heat cold: nasal congestion, turbid nasal discharge, and if the heat is severe, yellow, thick nasal discharge may occur.

2. Cough

Wind-cold cold: Wind-cold cold is often manifested by itchy throat, cough, and a lot of sputum, which is clear and thin; Wind-heat cold: Wind-heat attacks the lungs, causing the lungs to lose their clearness and purification. Wind-heat decocts turbid body fluids, causing cough and thick yellow sputum.

3. Chills and fever

Wind-cold cold: Because the wind-cold evil invades the skin surface, and the cold evil is a yin evil, its nature is coagulation, the body's Yang Qi is suppressed, so it manifests as mild fever and fear of cold; at the same time, because the pores are blocked, there is no sweat. (severe chills, mild fever, no sweating)

Wind-heat cold: Because it is caused by external wind-heat rather than wind-cold, the main symptom is fever. The fear of wind-cold is mild, or it only shows fear of wind. At the same time, wind-heat is a yang evil, and the heat steams the skin surface, causing the skin to relax. Therefore, it can be seen that although sweating occurs, the condition does not improve. (mild aversion to cold, severe fever, and unrelieved sweating)

4. Thirst or not

Cold: Since cold is a Yin evil, it is not easy to damage the Yin fluid of the human body. Therefore, most people with cold do not have symptoms of dry mouth and thirst, and they also like to drink hot drinks (hot drinks, no thirst)

Wind-heat cold: Wind-heat is a yang evil, and yang comes from fire, which can easily damage yin essence. Therefore, people with wind-heat cold often have red, swollen and painful throats, frequent dry mouth and thirst, and like cold drinks. (Cool drink, dry mouth and thirst)

5. Headache

The evil cold stagnates, and because the evil cold binds the surface, the human body's yang energy is stifled by the cold and cannot be dissipated, so symptoms such as headaches and body pains are often present, often manifested as pain in the head, neck and back, and often accompanied by pain and discomfort in the limbs and joints; while wind-heat colds are mostly manifested as red face and swelling and pain in the head.