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Is the flu hot or cold?
Influenza, known as seasonal flu or influenza in Chinese medicine, is characterized by fever, sore throat, cough, body aches, dizziness, headache and influenza. There is also a typical feature of infection. According to the specific symptoms, LingGan Yang Maopian, Lianhua Qingwen Capsule, antiviral oral liquid, Radix Isatidis, and ribavirin tablets can be selected for influenza medication.

The onset of influenza has certain seasonality, mainly concentrated in winter and spring, generally from 65438+February to March-May of the following year. Children's resistance is low, their activities are large, and they are prone to influenza.

Wind-cold cold is caused by the invasion of wind-cold pathogens and lung qi failure. Generally speaking, it is what we often call a cold. The so-called wind-cold cold refers to general pain or tightness after a cold, rising body temperature but obvious fear of cold, runny nose, dry mouth, no or slight sore throat, thin white sputum, stomachache and abdominal distension, cold attack or aggravation, loose stool, etc.

Most of them occur in autumn and winter. Its symptoms are soreness all over the body, stuffy nose and runny nose, wind-heat cold with phlegm. In treatment, both western medicine and Chinese medicine can use diet therapy, which not only eliminates diseases, but also protects health. Preventive measures include keeping warm, preserving health and dietotherapy, strengthening physical exercise, improving immunity and vaccinating in advance.

Let's talk about wind-heat cold.

Wind-heat cold is caused by wind-heat pathogen invading the exterior and disharmony between lung and qi. Symptoms are severe fever, slight aversion to wind, head swelling and pain, sweating, sore throat, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, stuffy nose and yellow nose, dry mouth and thirst, red tongue tip, thin white and yellowish fur. Wind-heat cold is more common in summer and autumn, which is caused by exogenous wind-heat. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that wind-heat cold is the exterior syndrome caused by feeling the evil of wind-heat

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