Patient's question:
The weather is getting colder. I need to wear beautiful clothes and look thin to qualify for this training, so I caught a cold because I was wearing thin clothes. I also have a runny nose and a slight fever. I feel like I'm about to collapse. Hello, can you tell me how quickly I should recover from a wind-cold cough?Doctor's answer:
Western medicine treatment for colds generally involves antiviral medications for severe colds, rapid-acting remedies, and phenylephrine and codeine suspension, among others. If coughing symptoms reappear, treatments such as clearing the lungs, expectorants, and high fever relief with bupleurum injections and Qingkailing or nimesulide may be used. Chinese herbal medicine for treating colds should be distinguished from treating a cold again, which can be considered as nasal congestion with unobstructed blood flow. Forsythia has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, making it effective for treating wind-heat colds.