Cold,Flu and Cough

These days the weather goes up and down and a lot of people get sick. Normally when one gets sick and you remedy it right away, by getting more rest and drinking lots of fluids the cold does clear up. The flu is more serious. The symptoms are fever, headache, and sore throat, cough, whole body aches, low appetite, dark yellow urine, restless and so on. In this case, we say heat or heat dampness attack the body. The usual treatment we would use would be cold herbs to get rid of the toxins. Also acupuncture and cupping works very well. We use acupressure points on lung meridians to detoxify.
For some people they get a cough after they get the cold. This type of cough sometimes can last for a few months and blood tests and X-rays don’t show anything. Lets take two groups and divide them, one caused by an external factor: cold, heat, dampness and dryness. The second is caused by Lung Qi deficiency or Liver fire. Because each one is different we use different acupressure points and herb formula.