Summer cold, also known as summer-dampness cold in Chinese medicine, is different from wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold in winter. Wet and cold in summer is characterized by sultry summer and high humidity. At this time, everyone is greedy for cold, such as blowing air conditioning and feeling the evil of cold. Wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds mostly occur in autumn and winter and spring and autumn, with slight fever and severe aversion to cold. Summer-damp cold is a unique cold in summer, which is also commonly known as the common cold.

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Cold in summer

The main clinical symptoms of hot cold are: fever, occasional fear of wind, dry sweating, sore throat, thick nose, thick cough and phlegm, thin tongue coating, and pulse condition mainly manifested as floating pulse or counting pulse.

Summer-dampness cold

Sweating does not reduce the fever. The humidity in southern China is heavy, especially in summer. If a hot cold is mixed with moisture, it will form a summer-damp cold. The greater the humidity, the more vulnerable the human body is to foreign pathogens and get sick. Summer-dampness cold is different from the common cold, and its main clinical symptoms are: fever increases obviously every afternoon, but it does not go down after sweating, dizziness, fatigue, dry mouth, chest tightness and nausea, yellow and greasy tongue coating, and little and yellow urine. High temperature, humidity, cold and heatstroke in summer are all caused by hot weather! Many people confuse heatstroke with a summer cold. Summer-damp cold belongs to the category of cold, with obvious cold symptoms such as fever, stuffy nose and runny nose. Although heatstroke has fever, it has no other cold symptoms, which is the fundamental difference between the two. Summer-dampness cold and heatstroke have the phenomenon of summer dampness, so both of them will have the same gastrointestinal symptoms, such as bloating, diarrhea, loss of appetite and so on. The external cause of heatstroke is obvious, and most of them are born in high temperature environment; Summer-dampness cold is different, and its main cause is that the human body feels cold and summer-dampness, and the external cause is not obvious. In addition, the course of summer-dampness cold is lingering, and most of them need several days of treatment to recover; Heatstroke is acute and recovers quickly. Generally 1 to 2 days, the symptoms can be eliminated.