Recently, rumors have appeared on the Internet that people from all over the world are rushing to buy Lianhua Qingwei. In fact, there are many effective medicines in Chinese medicine for treating external sensations, not only Lianhua Qingwei.
Lianhua Qingwen mainly treats heat poison and pulmonary external sensation. That is to say, when the lungs have heat toxicity, such as fever or high fever, chills, muscle aches, nasal congestion and runny nose, cough, headache, dry throat, red tongue, moss yellow or yellow greasy and other symptoms, Lianhua can be used to clear the pestilence. If it is a cold certificate, or a cold and wet external feeling, even Hua Qingwen is not suitable.
In autumn and winter, the incidence of colds is relatively high, and it is necessary to stock up on some commonly used medicines, but be sure to first figure out the cause of the cold and use symptomatic medicine.
Six lewd invasions and external feelings
Cold is a kind of external symptom of feeling six sexual or epidemic viruses, causing pulmonary dysfunction, nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing, headache, chills, fever, general malaise, pulse floating, etc. as the main clinical manifestations.
Generally, when the body's resistance decreases, it is easy to feel evil qi. It is mainly to feel wind and evil, but in different seasons, it is often combined with wet and evil and invades the human body, such as winter and cold evil, spring wind and evil, summer season more hot and humid, autumn more dry evil, especially wind cold, wind heat, summer humidity is more common. It is also caused by food accumulation, qi deficiency and other reasons.
For most people, the main thing is to distinguish cold and hot in the general direction, which can avoid many wrong medications. How to judge it?
Look at the nasal discharge: clear nasal discharge is generally cold, yellow nasal discharge is generally hot;
Look at the tongue: white is generally cold, yellow is generally hot, thicker tongue moss is generally accumulation of food;
Look at the color of the tongue: light is generally cold, red is generally hot;
Look at the throat: redness, swelling and pain is heat, if only pain is not red, cold and hot are possible;
Look at thirst or not: thirst is generally hot, not thirsty is generally cold;
Look at the season of onset: wind chill is generally more common in winter and early spring; Wind fever colds occur in late spring, summer, and early fall.
But now due to the influence of heating and air conditioning, wind chills and colds may also occur in summer, and there are also wind-heat colds in winter, which can be further distinguished by the following types of symptoms.
Wind chill cold
Causes: caused by external wind chill and lung qi loss, which is commonly known as a cold cold.
Symptoms: cold intolerance, no sweat, back headache, nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing, itchy throat, cough, thin white phlegm, thin white tongue.
Optional proprietary Chinese medicines: wind cold granules, cold heat clearing granules, Tongxuanli lung pills. If there is food accumulation, you can choose afternoon tea granules; If mixed with cold and humidity, you can choose to prevent particles from wattle. After taking the medicine, you can drink some hot porridge or hot soup and sweat slightly to help dispel the wind and cold.
Food treatment: perilla ginger porridge (take 5 grams of fresh perilla leaves, 5 slices of ginger, 50 grams of rice, boil the rice and cook on low heat for 30 minutes, add ginger and perilla leaves and cook for about 10 minutes with salt to taste. ）
Wind fever cold
Etiology: caused by external wind fever, wind heat evil table, lung qi loss and harmony.
Symptoms: fever, headache, cough, sore throat or painful tonsils, mucous or yellow sputum, thirst and drinking, yellow discharge, thin white and yellowish tongue.
Optional proprietary Chinese medicines: Sangju cold granules (tablets), Yinqiao detoxification granules (tablets), double huanglian oral liquid.
If the throat is red and swollen or the discomfort is obvious, you can use monk fruit decoction water or take Chinese proprietary medicine.
Dietary remedy: mulberry chrysanthemum tea (5 grams of mulberry leaves, 3 grams of white chrysanthemum, boil water for 10 minutes, open the lid, let cool to about 20 °C before drinking. ）
Seasonal colds (flu)
Cause: Shixing cold is what Western medicine calls influenza, also known as "flu", similar to wind and fever cold.
Symptoms: often outbreaks, rapid infection, sudden onset, severe symptoms, high fever, cold chills, headache, limb aches, tiredness and weakness, red tongue, moss yellow, can turn heat into it, become other diseases, and even lead to death.
Optional proprietary Chinese medicines: Lianhua Qingwen capsules, Qingwen detoxification tablets, Jinlian Qingheat granules, antiviral oral liquid.
Heat and cold
Causes: Summer dampness and cold are more common in summer, because the patient has humid heat, and cold, and can also be caused by eating cold melons and fruits.
Symptoms: fever, headache, swelling, chest fullness, abdominal pain, bowel sound, vomiting, diarrhea, tastelessness, loss of appetite, thick moss, etc.
Optional Chinese proprietary medicines: Huo Xiang Zhengqi Water, Baoji Pill, Liuhe Ding Zhong Pill.
Deficiency of breath and cold
Causes: Due to the weak body, the external defense is not solid, after feeling the external evil, the good and the evil are contending, and they cannot get rid of the evil and go out, thus showing that the condition is lingering and difficult to heal, and the situation of repeated attacks.
Symptoms: fear of cold, no sweat, headache, cough, white phlegm, weak cough, weak cough, fatigue, shortness of breath, lazy speech, repeated susceptibility, pale tongue, etc.
Optional proprietary Chinese medicines: jade screen granules, ginseng su capsules, ginseng sepsis capsules, body deficiency cold compound.
Prevention before illness
Will welcome the cold wave, the elderly, children and the weak are susceptible people, more need to pay attention, pay special attention to weather changes, add clothes in time, prevent cold and keep warm.
During the epidemic, personal protection is the most important line of defense. Remember: wear a mask, wash your hands frequently, ventilate more, and gather less.
If you have 11 types of new crown-related symptoms such as fever and dry cough, be sure to go to a fever clinic.
Produced by Jilin Daily
Curator: Jiang Zhongxiao
Author: Zhuang Zhuang
Editor: Han Yuhong