A remedy for the common cold.

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are two types of colds: wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds. Wind-cold colds, also known as common colds, are a common external illness that affects many people in all four seasons, but the incidence is higher in winter and spring, especially among the elderly and children. Wind-heat colds are more severe colds with internal heat, caused by exposure to unseasonal weather and spreading in epidemics. The following are some methods of prevention and treatment.

Common cold

The patient presents with mild fever, chills, aversion to wind, headache without sweating, nasal congestion, runny nose, white tongue coating, and a rapid, floating pulse. If accompanied by dampness, there will be joint pain and general body aches. Treatment: warm and pungent herbs to relieve external symptoms and dispel wind-cold. Use the following methods:

Oral medication:

Recipe 1: 80g perilla leaves, 8g milk thistle, 80g cyperus rhizome, 40g dried tangerine peel. Dry all ingredients and grind into a powder. Take 20g daily with hot water.

Perilla leaves and ginger are medicinal herbs used to treat colds caused by wind and heat (flu).

Recipe 2: Perilla Leaf Powder: 8g of Cyperus rotundus, 80g of Perilla frutescens, 40g of Citrus peel, 20g of licorice. All ingredients are dried and ground into powder. Take 12g daily with hot water.

Lesson 3: Modified Ephedra Decoction: Ephedra 6g, almond 8g, cinnamon 4g, licorice 4g. Decoction to be taken once a day.

Lesson 4: If accompanied by rheumatism and joint pain, use the Jingfang Baidu San formula: Bupleurum chinense 40g, Angelica dahurica 40g, Poria cocos 40g, Platycodon grandiflorus 40g, Citrus aurantium 40g, Ligusticum chuanxiong 40g, Notopterygium incisum 40g, Angelica pubescens 40g, Glycyrrhiza glabra 20g, Mentha arvensis 40g, Saposhia divaricata 40g. Grind all ingredients into a powder and take 12g daily.

Herbal steam bath: Boil water with mulberry leaves, lemon or pomelo leaves, perilla leaves, mint, basil, lemongrass, bamboo leaves, and fig leaves.

Cold with fever

The patient presents with symptoms such as fear of wind but not fear of cold, excessive sweating, headache, dry mouth and nose, cough with phlegm, nosebleeds, yellow tongue coating, and a rapid, floating pulse. Treatment: Relieve external symptoms by dispersing wind-heat. Methods used:

Oral medication:

Recipe 1: Artemisia annua 8g, Rehmannia glutinosa 40g, Solanum nigrum 40g, Perilla frutescens 40g, Mentha arvensis 80g, Lonicera japonica 80g, ginger 20g. Grind all ingredients into a powder. Take 15-20g daily.

Recipe 2: Mulberry and Chrysanthemum Decoction: 40g mulberry leaves, 4g chrysanthemum flowers, 6g forsythia, 4g mint, 8g almonds, 8g balloon flower root, 4g licorice, 6g reed root. Boil and drink 1-2 doses per day.

Recipe 3: Silver Bridge Powder: 40g honeysuckle, 40g forsythia, 24g balloon flower, 24g mint, 4g bamboo leaves, 20g licorice, 20g fermented soybeans, 16g perilla flowers, 24g burdock seeds. Grind all ingredients into a powder. Take 20g 2-3 times a day.

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