What medicine should I take for a cold with alternating chills and fever

Alternating chills and heat is actually a medical term unique to traditional Chinese medicine. Although in the eyes of normal people, alternating chills and heat are symptoms of a cold, in the eyes of Chinese medicine experts, alternating chills and heat are not a cold problem. Therefore, if you want to treat alternating cold and heat, you should go to a Chinese medicine practitioner to look for relevant treatment methods. The following article will recommend several medicines that can treat alternating cold and heat to readers.

In fact, alternating cold and heat is not necessarily caused by a cold. In fact, alternation of cold and heat is mainly caused by Shaoyang disease or malaria. We can effectively distinguish these diseases based on their TCM symptoms. For the treatment of alternating cold and heat, Chinese medicine prescriptions should definitely be chosen for dialectical treatment. Below are some recommended Chinese herbal prescriptions for treating alternating cold and heat.

Chinese medicine prescription 1: Bupleurum, Scutellaria, ginger, Pinellia, Codonopsis, jujube, and licorice. Decoction the above Chinese medicines with water, one dose per day. This Chinese medicine prescription has the effect of clearing away evil heat and reconciling Shaoyang. It is suitable for patients whose bodies have been invaded by evil cold but are still between the exterior and interior.

Chinese medicine prescription 2: Bupleurum, Scutellaria, ginger, Pinellia, Codonopsis, jujube, and licorice. Decoction the above Chinese medicines with water, one dose per day. This Chinese medicine prescription has the effects of clearing the liver, relieving heat, clearing the blood and removing blood stasis. It is suitable for female patients during menstruation whose uterus is invaded by cold evil and turns into heat.

Chinese medicine prescription three: Dichroa, Amomum villosum, Magnolia officinalis, Areca catechu, Citrus aurantium, Tangerine peel, Bupleurum, Scutellaria baicalensis, Ginger, Pinellia, Codonopsis pilosula, Jujube, and Licorice. Decoction the above Chinese medicines with water, one dose per day. This Chinese medicine prescription has the effect of dispelling evil and stopping malaria. It has a good therapeutic effect on the alternation of cold and heat caused by malaria.

Although alternating cold and heat is caused by the invasion of cold evil into the body, it is not necessarily a cold. The treatment of alternating cold and heat requires targeted treatment based on the location of the cold evil. The alternation of cold and heat shows that the two evil qi, cold and heat, can transform into each other in our body. Therefore, when treating the disease, we cannot simply choose Chinese herbal prescriptions that induce sweating and relieve symptoms.