What is Fengreganmao? What is wind-heat cold?

What is wind-heat cold? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that wind-heat colds often occur in spring, mainly because the hot wind in spring causes people to catch exogenous wind evil, invade the lungs, and cause the body to be affected by wind-heat. The symptoms of wind-heat cold are high fever, slight aversion to wind, headache, sweating, red and swollen sore throat, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, yellow mucus, thirst and love of drinking, red tip and edges of the tongue, and a thin white and slightly yellow tongue coating. Treatment should focus on clearing heat and detoxifying.

Wind-heat cold symptoms

1. Sore throat, usually before cold symptoms, phlegm is usually yellow or black. Wind-heat cold causes sore throat and swollen tonsils; wind-cold cold causes sore throat but no swollen tonsils.

2. Thick nasal discharge: Thick, yellow turbid nasal discharge is mostly caused by wind-heat cold; wind-cold cold only causes clear, watery nasal discharge.

3. In wind-heat cold, the tip and edges of the tongue are red, and the coating is thin, white and slightly yellow; in wind-cold cold, the tip and edges of the tongue are not red, and the coating is thin, white and not yellow.

4. Constipation.

5. Fever, thirst, and irritability. Wind-heat colds are mostly accompanied by dry mouth and thirst, and a preference for cold drinks; wind-cold colds are not accompanied by dry mouth or thirst, and a preference for drinking water.

6. In wind-heat cold, the pulse is floating and rapid, with the pulse beating more than 90 times per minute; in wind-cold cold, the pulse is floating, tight or slow, with the pulse beating mostly less than 90 times per minute.

7. Chills and fever: Both have symptoms of chills and fever at the same time. The difference between the two is that wind-heat cold has more severe fever and mild and not so obvious chills; on the contrary, wind-cold cold has obvious aversion to wind or chills and mild fever.

What medicine should I take for wind-heat cold

1. Prepare 15 grams of honeysuckle, 10 grams of chrysanthemum, and 3 grams of jasmine. Put all the herbs into a cup, add boiling water, then cover the cup and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes and drink it instead of tea.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and detoxifies, treats symptoms such as sore throat and body inflammation caused by wind-heat cold.

2. Prepare 75 grams of chrysanthemum, 75 grams of forsythia, 75 grams of rehmannia root, 75 grams of iris, 50 grams of mint, 125 grams of isatis indigotica, 75 grams of patchouli, 75 grams of isatis root, 75 grams of rehmannia root, and an appropriate amount of gypsum, and take it with boiled water.

Prevention of Wind-heat Cold

1. Avoid activities in hot summer and it is suitable to carry out outdoor activities in the morning or after 5 pm.

2. The room should be ventilated and the room temperature should be kept appropriate. The indoor air should be kept flowing. Air conditioning can be used in high temperatures, but the temperature should not be set below 26°C and the air conditioning should not be turned on continuously for 24 hours. After outdoor activities or taking a shower, avoid being directly exposed to cold air from the air conditioner or taking cold showers. Dry yourself immediately with a dry towel after taking a shower.

3. Ensure sleep time, at least 8 hours of sleep a day. A half-hour nap at noon will make the baby feel much more comfortable.

4. Do not consume too much cold drinks or ice water due to heat.

5. Eat more foods rich in water, such as watermelon, mung bean soup, millet, and winter melon. The rind of watermelon, known as watermelon rind in traditional Chinese medicine, is a very good food for cooling down the body. It can be boiled in water and made into tea.

6. You can also make tea with some Chinese medicines, such as honeysuckle, forsythia, mint, etc. People with hot constitution can add lotus seeds, people with heavy sweating can add wolfberry, and people with heavy dampness can add patchouli and perilla.