1, which cold medicine works well?
Chinese medicine believes that colds can generally be divided into two categories: wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds. The etiology, pathogenesis, symptoms, treatment principles and medication of these two colds are very different. Here, Jia Zheng Health Network will introduce the types of colds to you first. To take medicine to treat a cold, we must first know what kind of cold we belong to and choose the right medicine for this type of cold.
(1) wind-cold cold
The causes of wind-cold colds are usually fatigue and lack of rest, plus blowing or catching cold. Colds and colds usually occur in autumn and winter; Features: Strong pain in the back of the head indicates pain in the back of the head and inflexible neck rotation. Afraid of cold and wind, you usually have to wear a lot of clothes or cover a big quilt to be comfortable. Your nose is transparent, white or yellowish. If the nasal congestion does not cause runny nose, drink some hot water and start to clear the nose, and the tongue is coated with no fur or thin white fur.
(2) Wind-heat cold
The cause of wind-heat cold is usually constipation, which often belongs to Yangming meridian syndrome. Symptoms of wind-heat cold: sore throat, usually before the symptoms of cold appear, sputum is generally yellow or black. The nose is thick, usually yellow, the tongue coating is yellowish, or it may be white, and the tongue body is generally red. Constipation, body heat, thirst, upset. Pulse condition is usually a pulse condition of several or one flood, that is, the pulse condition is faster than normal.
1. Wind-cold colds: most of them are wind-cold colds in winter and early spring. This kind of cold should be treated with drugs with mild temperature and strong sweating ability, such as Ganmao Qingre Granule, Ganmao Soft Capsule and Zhengchaihuyin Granule.
2. Wind-heat cold: Wind-heat cold is common in spring and early summer. Yinqiao Jiedu Pill, Ling Gan Yang Maopian, Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid, Yinhuang Oral Liquid and so on should be selected for this kind of cold, pungent and cool drugs.
3. Summer and rainy season are often accompanied by summer humidity. For this kind of cold, we should choose mild drugs for eliminating dampness and relieving exterior syndrome, which can not only dispel cold, but also dispel dampness and relieve summer heat, such as summer cold granules, Huoxiang Zhengqi soft capsules and Baoji pills. In addition, in summer, due to being in an air-conditioned room for a long time or greedy for cold drinks, the medication should refer to the cold and cold. Autumn is often accompanied by dryness. For this kind of cold, we should choose drugs with lung-dispersing or dryness-moistening effects, such as Sangju Ganmao Tablet and Chuanbei Pipa Dew.
2. Precautions for cold medication
1, don't use paracetamol if your liver is not good.
Paracetamol is a commonly used antipyretic and analgesic component in compound cold medicine, which can be safely used with decongestant or cough medicine. However, people who drink too much or have poor liver function such as hepatitis and cirrhosis will damage their liver if they use or use too much.
2. Don't eat chlorpheniramine while driving.
The most commonly used antiallergic ingredient in cold medicine is chlorpheniramine, which can relieve symptoms such as runny nose, sneezing, tearing and itching. However, it has the side effect of drowsiness, so people engaged in driving and precision instrument operation should use it with caution.
It is best not to mix cold medicine.
Using different over-the-counter anti-cold drugs at the same time may inadvertently ingest a drug or a certain type of drug that exceeds the recommended dose. Dr Houston said, "Be careful not to take two drugs containing the same ingredients. If the medicine you take is a compound medicine, you probably shouldn't use any other medicine. " Even a single cold medicine is best used under the guidance of a doctor.
3. What medicine should I take for a cold?
① ribavirin aerosol: also known as Xinweilin, has the following advantages: it can fight against many viruses; It can reach the focus directly, and after the drug is sprayed into the nasal cavity and throat, the effective components of the drug can reach the focus directly, thus quickly preventing virus replication at the focus; There are few adverse reactions, and the inhaled dose of cold patients is very small when using the medicine, thus avoiding various adverse reactions caused by large-dose intravenous drip or oral medicine; But also convenient to carry and use.
② amantadine: once 100 mg, twice a day. Common side effects include inattention, hallucination, insomnia, anorexia and dysphagia, which can disappear after drug withdrawal.
③ Ribavirin: 100 ~ 200mg each time, three times a day, which is effective for respiratory syncytial virus and influenza virus, but it is forbidden for pregnant women because of fetal malformation in animal experiments.
④ Chinese patent medicine: In China, traditional Chinese medicine has a long history in preventing colds, with remarkable curative effect and obvious advantages compared with chemical drugs. Such as Belamcanda rhizome, honeysuckle flower, weeping forsythia, astragalus root, cyrtomium rhizome, wormwood, Bupleurum root, dandelion, isatis root, isatis leaf and the like. It has been proved by modern pharmacological research that it has antiviral effect, and the antiviral effect of traditional Chinese medicine is not only aimed at some viruses, but also has broad-spectrum inhibitory effect. The popular expression is "killing".