In traditional Chinese medicine, herbal therapy and acupuncture therapy are very effective for this disease, and the disorder is recognized as two different types caused by wind and cold, and wind and heat.

Flu caused by wind and cold shows the chief symptoms such as fever, chills, headache, nasal obstruction and thin nasal discharge. The patient usually does not feel thirsty, but has a superficial and tense pulse. The tongue is found covered with a thin whitish coating. The general rules for the treatment of this type are to use strong sudorific drugs pungent in taste and warming in property to dispel wind and cold in external symptom-complex. The most effective formula is Jin Fang Bai Du San Jia Jian.
Constituents:
Jingjie (herb) 12g
Fangfeng (root) 12g
Chinese thorowax 15-30g
Root of purple-flowered peucedanunm 15g
Notopterygium 12g
Angelica (root) 10g
Chuanxiong (rhizome) 12g
Apricot kernel 12g
Tatarian aster 20g
Common coltsfoot flower 10g
Licorice root 6g

Decoction and dosage. Put all the above herbs together to be simmered twice,then the broth of each mixed, half of the mixed broth each time, twice a day.If high fever has continued for two days, 30 grams of gypsum is added to the above formula.

If cough attacks very often, tendril-leaved fritillary bulb (10g) and Pinellia (tuber) (10g) are put on the formula.
If headache is frequent, root of herbaceous peony (12g) and Ligusticum (rhizome) (12g) are increased in the formula.

Flu caused by wind and heat usually manifests fever, headache, perspiration,chilly sensation, thirst and pain of the throat. The pulse is superficial and rapid and the tongue is covered with thin, white or slightly yellowish coating with red edge and
tip. The rules for treatment are the same as those for wind and cold type. The effective formula is Yin Xiao San Jia Jian.
Constituents:
Honeysuckle flower 15-30g
Weeping forsythia 15-30g
Bamboo leaves 10g
Jingjie (herb) 12g
Achene of great burdock 10g
Peppermint (herb) 10g
Common reed rhizome 30g
Root of balloonflower 30g
Root of Zhejiang figwort 15-30g
Tuber of dwarf lilyturf 18g
Fresh or dried root of rehmannia 18g
Gypsum 30g
Licorice root 6g
Decoction and dosage is the same.
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