Common cold is characterized by symptoms such as sneezing, nasal congestion, runny nose, aversion to wind or cold, fever, headache, and general body aches or discomfort. Although the common cold is a minor issue, it is essential to distinguish between cold and heat, and to treat it accordingly for timely recovery. If one fails to … Read more
The common cold is characterized by fever, chills, body aches, nasal congestion, sneezing, throat irritation, and cough. The term “common cold” first appeared in the book “Ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang – Various Winds”: “Shen Su Decoction treats the common cold caused by wind evil, with fever, headache, heavy cough, and thick nasal discharge.” 【Etiology … Read more
Common Cold Overview: The common cold is a common external pathogenic disease caused by the invasion of wind evil, leading to the invasion of the lung’s defensive qi and disharmony of the defensive layer. Clinical manifestations are characterized by nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing, cough, headache, chills, fever, general malaise, and floating pulse. This disease … Read more
—— The following is the main text —— Gua Sha is one of the traditional techniques in China, documented in the ancient classic of Chinese medicine, the “Huangdi Neijing” (Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon), and has been in use for over a thousand years.Common cold is a febrile disease caused by external wind pathogens or seasonal … Read more
Cupping therapy, known in ancient times as “Jiao Fa,” originated from the use of animal horns as therapeutic tools. Many animal horns, such as those from cattle and sheep, are hollow, and when cut from the animal, they become natural cups. Although the classic TCM text “Huang Di Nei Jing” does not directly discuss cupping … Read more
Diagnosis and Treatment of Common Cold The common cold is a frequently occurring clinical condition. Mild cases may resolve without medication, while severe cases can lead to other illnesses and even threaten the lives of children and the elderly, especially during outbreaks of influenza, which can spread rapidly, infecting many and causing severe symptoms, potentially … Read more
Since the beginning of winter, the number of people suffering from wind-cold common colds has been increasing. We can see that more patients are visiting hospitals for colds. Can we treat wind-cold common colds on our own using Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)? Common colds are external pathogenic diseases caused by external evils invading the skin … Read more
It is believed that everyone has experienced fever and cold, but many people casually choose cold remedies without proper understanding. In fact, the common cold can be divided into Wind-Cold Cough (Feng Han Ke Sou) and Wind-Cold Common Cold (Feng Han Gan Mao), and the treatment methods for these two types of colds are different. … Read more
1. Chills and Sensitivity to Cold: Patients with a wind-cold common cold often experience chills due to the coldness of wind and cold enveloping the body, which suppresses the body’s Yang energy. Therefore, patients typically exhibit coldness, aversion to wind, and the symptoms of fever are relatively mild, sometimes even absent. 2. No Sweating: Due … Read more
The feared Wind-Cold common cold is the process by which the body is affected by the Wind-Cold evil. Wind evil is the foremost of the six external evils, with Cold evil ranking second. Characteristics of Wind evil: Wind is a Yang evil, light and dispersing in nature, moving and changing frequently, and is unpredictable. Therefore, … Read more