What are the Chinese patent medicines for treating colds?

If colds and flu are not treated effectively, they will induce other diseases. Therefore, many patients who often suffer from colds and flu want to know what Chinese patent medicines can be used to treat them in order to prevent them from inducing other diseases. In order for you to learn more about Chinese patent medicines for treating colds and flu, please take a look at the following introduction.

The treatment method should be mainly based on relieving exterior symptoms with pungent and warming properties. Wind-heat cold is caused by wind-heat evil invading the surface and disharmony of lung qi. The treatment method should be mainly based on relieving exterior symptoms with pungent and cool properties. The medicines used for the two types of colds are naturally different. The early stage cold is of the wind-cold type and has certain characteristics, such as being afraid of cold, having a headache, clear runny nose, and sneezing. This is a wind-cold cold and can be treated with warming and dispersing methods. If the main symptoms are fever, sore throat and dry stool, it is a wind-heat cold, and the method of dispelling wind, clearing heat and relieving symptoms should be used. The following are commonly used Chinese patent medicines for colds, and citizens should learn to identify them before self-medication.

Isatis root is cold in nature and bitter in taste. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and relieving sore throat. It has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on common spring diseases such as colds, influenza, epidemic encephalitis and mumps. But because of its bitter and cold nature, it is more suitable for wind-heat colds caused by heat evil in the body. If you have a weak and cold constitution, often feel disharmony between the spleen and stomach, are prone to diarrhea, and are afraid of cold, you should not drink more Isatis root powder. Especially for children, whose spleen and stomach functions are not yet fully developed, taking too much Isatis root may more easily cause symptoms such as indigestion.

Yinqiao tablets are a traditional Chinese medicine composed of ten Chinese medicinal herbs including Forsythia suspensa, Honeysuckle, and Burdock Fructus. It has the effects of dispelling wind and heat, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and is mainly used to treat wind-heat colds. Therefore, if you have a cold caused by wind and cold, using Yinqiao tablets will only add to the cold.

The main ingredients of Shuanghuanglian oral liquid are honeysuckle, scutellaria baicalensis, and forsythia. It is also used to treat wind-heat colds. It is not suitable for people with wind-heat colds that have symptoms of severe chills, mild fever, no sweating, nasal congestion and clear runny nose, no thirst, and coughing up thin white sputum.

The cold and heat-clearing granules are composed of herbs such as Schizonepeta spicate, mint, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Bupleurum chinense, Pueraria lobata, Platycodon grandiflorum, Angelica dahurica, Cyperus rotundus, and Phragmites australis. They have the effects of dispersing wind and cold, relieving exterior symptoms and clearing heat, and are used to treat colds caused by wind and cold. Because this medicine contains platycodon and almond, it has a strong effect in relieving cough and reducing phlegm. If the cold is manifested by severe cough and sputum, it is particularly suitable to use the cold and heat-clearing granules. In addition, the cold and heat-clearing granules also contain heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs such as Pueraria lobata and Coptis chinensis, so they can also prevent viral colds.

What are the Chinese patent medicines for treating colds? The above introduces some Chinese patent medicines for patients who often suffer from colds. Therefore, for patients who often suffer from colds, they can use some of the Chinese patent medicines introduced above to treat colds. After understanding, when you catch a cold, you can get good control and improvement through the Chinese patent medicines introduced above.