Question
[Patient Describes Symptoms]: Coughing, runny nose, accompanied by fever. The fever started four days ago and has not improved. Previous treatment and results: Taken Chinese medicine, received a hypothermic needle, and also took Western medicine, but the effects were not satisfactory. Wondering if there is a way to speed up recovery.
Answer
[Doctor’s Suggestion]: For the treatment of colds and fever, it is recommended to use Chinese medicine treatment methods because they have fewer side effects on the body. Here are several Chinese herbal treatment plans: (1) Fever Pill, ingredients include soybean paste, mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum flowers, lotus flowers, forsythia, cowbane seeds, licorice root, lilyturf root, hooken root, bamboo leaf, juniper berries, mint leaves; (2) Silverleaf and Immune Pills, ingredients include soybean paste, lotus flowers, forsythia, juniper berries, mint oil, licorice root, lilyturf root, bluegrass root, bamboo leaf; (3) Fever Relief Tablets, ingredients include juniper berries, wind-dispelling herbs, purple raspberry leaves, summer grass leaves; (4) Noon Tea, ingredients include orchid grass root, orange peel, mugwort root, forsythia flowers, white mustard root, plum pit, hawthorn fruit, cinnamomum cassia root bark, lobster mushroom root, wind-dispelling herbs, camphor herbaceous plant leaf, licorice root, malt extract from barley grass; (5) Cinnabar Tea with Safflower Powder, ingredients include mint leaves, safflower powder, cinnabar herbaceous plant root bark, licorice root powder; white mustard root powder; wind-dispelling herbs powder; juniper berries powder; mint leaves powder. For symptoms of obvious cold or fever with headache and nasal congestion with clear nasal discharge, it can be taken 3-4 times a day at a time. Noon Tea