Yes, there was no western medicine in ancient times, and Chinese medicine was used for colds. According to the etiology, Chinese medicine divides colds into three types: wind-cold type, wind-heat type and summer-heat type, and there are also differences in medication. Cold-type cold is characterized by headache, no sweat, pain in limbs, heavy nasal congestion, runny nose, cough, thin white sputum, dry mouth and tongue coating. Treatment should choose pungent drugs to relieve exterior syndrome, disperse lung and dispel cold. Chinese patent medicines can choose Ganmao Granules, Xuan Tong Li Fei Tablets and Xiaochaihu Tablets. In rural areas, some people chop up fresh ginger and boil water with scallion, drink it while it is hot, and then they can heal themselves with a little sweat. Wind-heat type cold is characterized by high fever, slight chills, head swelling and pain, thick or yellow runny nose, sore throat, cough, yellow and thick phlegm, thirst and yellow or thin tongue coating. Xin Liang should be used to disperse lung heat and relieve exterior syndrome. Yinqiao Jiedu Pill, Sangju Ganmao Tablet, Ling Gan Yang Ganmao Tablet or Ganmao Qingre Granule can be taken orally. Summer-heat-type cold should clear heat and dispel summer-heat, clear qi and divide heat, and Huoxiang Zhengqi granule or oral liquid can be selected. Some Chinese doctors also divide a cold into three different types: external cold and internal heat. Often eat high-calorie food, unbalanced nutrition, hot constitution, internal fire, coupled with exogenous cold, resulting in internal heat stagnation. There is also exogenous cold, improper treatment, long delay, resulting in endogenous stagnation. In the treatment of cold with external cold and internal heat, pungent warming should be used to relieve exterior cold first, and then stagnation heat should be used. There are many kinds of drugs used to treat colds in the market, but according to the mechanism of action, they are mainly divided into four categories: antiallergic drugs, nasal congestion relieving drugs, antipyretic and analgesic drugs and antiviral drugs. Allergic drugs can relieve sneezing, stuffy nose and runny nose, and have a slight sedative effect, such as chlorpheniramine and diphenhydramine. Drugs to relieve congestion of nasal mucosa can selectively contract blood vessels of nasal mucosa, relieve symptoms of nasal congestion and reduce nasal discharge, such as phenylpropanolamine and pseudoephedrine. Antipyretic and analgesic drugs can reduce fever and relieve headache, joint pain and muscle pain, such as aspirin, acetaminophen and diclofenac. Antiviral drugs can inhibit the virus from synthesizing nucleic acid and protein, and inhibit the virus from being released from cells, thus reducing the severity of virus infection. Commonly used antiviral drugs include ribavirin, acyclovir and amantadine. There are many traditional Chinese medicines for treating colds, such as Yinqiao Jiedu Pill, Sangju Ganmao Tablet, Ling Gan Yang Ganmao Tablet, Ganmao Qingre Granule and Huoxiang Zhengqi Granule. Chinese medicine, such as Bupleurum, Radix Puerariae, Coptidis Rhizoma, Flos Lonicerae, etc. It has antiviral effect that western medicine does not have. For example, Bupleurum has obvious antipyretic effect on fever caused by many reasons, and has the characteristics of low toxicity and rapid antipyretic. In the aspect of antivirus, Bupleurum chinense not only has inhibitory effect on influenza Bacillus, pneumococcus and Staphylococcus aureus, but also has strong inhibitory effect on Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Shigella dysenteriae. Therefore, Bupleurum chinense not only can be used to treat influenza, but also can be used to treat mumps, pneumonia, acute bronchitis and other infectious diseases caused by cold.