What Chinese patent medicine is more effective for treating colds?

In spring and autumn, the weather is unstable and the temperature difference between morning and evening is large. If you don’t wear enough clothes, you can easily catch a cold. There are many ways to treat colds, but the main recommendation is to use Chinese patent medicines and diet therapy because the side effects are relatively small.

1.Isatis root is cold in nature and bitter in taste. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and relieving sore throat. It has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on common spring diseases such as colds, influenza, epidemic encephalitis and mumps. But because of its bitter and cold nature, it is more suitable for wind-heat colds caused by heat evil in the body. If you have a weak and cold constitution, often feel disharmony between the spleen and stomach, are prone to diarrhea, and are afraid of cold, you should not drink more Isatis root powder. Especially for children, whose spleen and stomach functions are not yet fully developed, taking too much Isatis root may more easily cause symptoms such as indigestion.

2. Yinqiao tablets are a Chinese patent medicine composed of ten Chinese medicinal herbs including Forsythia suspensa, Honeysuckle, and Burdock Fructus. It has the effects of dispelling wind and heat, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and is mainly used to treat wind-heat colds. Therefore, if you have a cold caused by wind and cold, using Yinqiao tablets will only add to the cold.

3. The main ingredients of Shuanghuanglian oral liquid are honeysuckle, scutellaria baicalensis, and forsythia suspensa. It is also used to treat wind-heat colds. It is not suitable for people with wind-heat colds that have symptoms of severe chills, mild fever, no sweating, nasal congestion and clear runny nose, no thirst, and coughing up thin white sputum.

4. The cold and heat-clearing granules are composed of drugs such as Schizonepeta spicate, mint, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Bupleurum chinense, Pueraria lobata, Platycodon grandiflorum, Angelica dahurica, Sophora flavescens, and Phragmites australis. They have the effects of dispelling wind and cold, relieving exterior symptoms and clearing away heat, and are used to treat colds caused by wind and cold. Because this medicine contains platycodon and almond, it has a strong effect in relieving cough and reducing phlegm. If the cold is manifested by severe cough and sputum, it is particularly suitable to use the cold and heat-clearing granules. In addition, the cold and heat-clearing granules also contain heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs such as Pueraria lobata and Coptis chinensis, so they can also prevent viral colds.