TCM
What is the Wind-Heat & Wind-Cold of Flu in TCM?
Traditional Chinese Medicine treats the common cold in 2 totally different ways.
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2 min readFeb 9, 2023
Whenever TCM treats any disease, The Heat syndrome and Cold syndrome would be treated differently. And that is based on the theory of Yin and Yang.
TCM treats patients based on patients' Heat and Cold constitutions.
When people have got the flu, their signs and symptoms may show differently; which is because their constitutions are different. Generally speaking, some people may have Heat constitution in their body; whereas other people may have Cold constitution. When a person with Heat constitution has the flu, most likely he will have Wind-Heat syndrome. Whereas when a person with Cold constitution, is most likely will have Wind-Cold syndrome.
Wind-Heat syndrome of Flu
Signs and symptoms of Wind-Heat of flu include:
- aversion to heat
- high fever
