Traditional Chinese medicine divides colds into three categories: wind-cold cold, wind-heat cold and summer-wet cold. The principle of diagnosis and treatment is syndrome differentiation.
The main manifestations of patients with wind-cold cold are severe aversion to cold, light fever, no sweat, mouth thirst, cough, phlegm clearing, light tongue, thin white tongue coating.
The main manifestations of wind-heat cold patients are severe fever, mild aversion to cold, headache, thirst, nasal congestion, yellow thick mucus, sore throat, red tongue, thin yellow tongue coating.
Summer-damp cold occurs in summer, patients with common cold fever, abdominal distension pain, vomiting and diarrhea, the treatment to relieve the surface of the traditional Chinese medicine.
