Exogenous wind-heat cough

Coughs caused by exogenous wind-heat are usually intermittent and more obvious in the morning and evening. Patients will also feel weak due to coughing and sweating, and may even cause a series of symptoms. Therefore, patients should choose the correct response plans based on their own conditions. In addition, they should find out what stage of the disease they are currently in, and then they can use some Western or Chinese medicine to regulate it.

The name of a disease in Traditional Chinese Medicine, which is a major syndrome of exogenous cough.

It is a cough caused by the body being affected by wind-heat evil and the lungs failing to clear themselves. Clinically, symptoms include cough, dry cough without sputum or yellow and thick sputum, or fever, sweating, aversion to wind, dry mouth and sore throat, yellow nasal discharge, red tongue with thin yellow coating, and floating and rapid pulse. The treatment is suitable for dispelling wind and heat, promoting lung function and relieving cough. Commonly used prescriptions include Yinqiao Powder and Sangju Drink.

Due to excessive fire in the body, or the feeling of external wind-heat, the lungs are first attacked. The lungs lose their ability to clear and purify, and the heat refines body fluids into phlegm, so there is cough, thick yellow phlegm, and dry mouth; the wind-heat evil invades the skin surface, the Wei Yang is suppressed, and the evil and the good fight against each other, so the body is hot and afraid of wind; wind is responsible for the release of qi, and wind-heat invades the surface, the skin and fur pores open, so sweating occurs; wind-heat disturbs the throat and fumigates the throat, so there is headache and sore throat; the tongue coating is thin yellow, and the pulse is floating and rapid, which are signs that wind-heat has invaded the lung Wei.

treat

Once the cause of wind-heat cold is understood, the treatment is very simple. In most cases, it just requires laxatives (combined with heat-clearing and antipyretic drugs, it usually works quickly). There are many ways, such as drinking some herbal tea or taking some heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine such as Isatis root. Chinese patent medicines include Sanhuang Tablets, Yinqiao Jiedu Tablets + Niuhuang Jiedu Tablets, Isatis Root, etc. You can also take some honeysuckle oral liquid to treat wind-heat colds.

Chrysanthemum, mint, mulberry leaves, etc. are commonly used. The representative prescriptions are Yinqiao Powder and Sangju Yin. You can choose to take over-the-counter medicines such as Yinqiao Jiedu Pills (Tablets), Lingqiao Jiedu Pills, Sangju Cold Tablets, and Banlangen Granules.

If the fever is severe and the throat is obviously swollen and painful, you can take Shuanghuanglian oral liquid (granules) or Qingrejiedu oral liquid. These medicines have good heat-clearing and detoxifying effects.

If you suffer from a wind-heat cold, you should drink more water and eat a light diet. You can drink carrot soup or pear soup. People suffering from wind-heat cold can also take the following prescription: 3 grams of mint, 30 grams of reed root, 15 grams of isatis root, and raw licorice for 6 days, one dose per day; or 10 grams of bamboo leaves, 3 grams of mint, 9 grams of almonds, and 9 grams of forsythia, one dose per day.

Precautions

1. Finally, let me clarify a few concepts that may confuse you.

* Viral cold does not mean wind-heat cold. Virus is a term used in Western medicine, while Chinese medicine focuses more on the human body. Therefore, it is incorrect for some doctors to treat viral colds the same as wind-heat colds.

* Sore throat is not the key to distinguishing between wind-heat colds and wind-cold colds. Wind-cold colds can often cause sore throats.

* Similarly, cough, runny nose and high fever cannot be used to distinguish between the two types of colds.