How to reduce fever? Traditional Chinese medicine teaches you 4 ways to reduce fever

With the arrival of autumn, the temperature changes greatly, and colds and fevers become very common symptoms. In addition to buying medicine, there are other ways to prevent colds in autumn. Traditional Chinese medicine treatments have fewer side effects and can treat both the symptoms and the root cause!

Traditional Chinese medicine teaches you 4 ways to reduce fever

Fever is something that I think everyone has experienced firsthand. Traditional Chinese medicine has many methods for treating fever, but if you choose the wrong method, it will not only fail to treat the disease, but often have the opposite effect.

Wind-heat colds are generally characterized by obvious fever, increased body temperature, sweating, headache, thirst, and sore throat. Sweating and drinking more boiled water can detoxify the body, reduce fever symptoms, and then eliminate fever. We can also reduce fever through Chinese medicine cupping, Chinese medicine massage, or hot water foot bath. When cupping and massaging, you must keep warm and avoid being attacked by wind and cold, which also has the effect of reducing fever.

Sweating and fever-reducing method

This is the most common method of reducing fever, and is suitable for patients with cold and fever. Common fever and chills occur at the same time, with no sweat or incomplete sweating. Due to the different nature of the pathogens and the different physical conditions of the patients, colds can be divided into two categories: wind-heat colds and wind-cold colds.

Wind-heat cold is characterized by obvious fever, high body temperature, usually sweating, and symptoms such as headache, thirst, and sore throat. It can be treated by sweating to dispel evil heat, so that the evil heat can be expelled and the fever can be reduced, thus achieving the effect of reducing fever. Wind-cold cold is characterized by mild fever, obvious aversion to cold, usually no sweating, and headache, body aches, nasal congestion and clear runny nose, no thirst, no sore throat, and tight pulse. It should be treated with pungent and cool herbs to relieve the symptoms, sweat and reduce fever. Jiuwei Qianghuo Pills and Ganmao Qingre Granules can be used for treatment.

At the same time, we can also reduce fever by drinking more hot water, covering ourselves with more quilts, taking a sauna, or soaking our feet in hot water to induce sweating. However, when taking a sauna, we must keep warm and avoid being exposed to the wind. When we have a fever, the pores of the skin are blocked. Gua Sha can open the pores, discharge the evil spirits inside, and also has the effect of reducing fever.

Heat-Cold Method

In traditional Chinese medicine, we can use cold medicines to reduce fever. This method is mainly suitable for patients with fever but no chills. There are four main symptoms of fever, such as persistent high fever, liking to drink cold drinks when thirsty, and obvious sweating. These are symptoms of high fever. At this time, sweating and fever reduction cannot be used. We can use the traditional Chinese medicine Baihu Decoction to treat it, or we can use the sweet and cold fever reduction method. If there are symptoms such as persistent high fever, red tongue, dry mouth and tongue, we can use the bitter and cold heat-clearing method, and Sanhuang Tablets can be used for treatment.

In life, we can also drink some cold drinks, but since both medicines and drinks are cold and can easily hurt the spleen and stomach, we should stop drinking in moderation. If the body temperature is above 38 degrees Celsius, physical cooling methods can be used. Ice cubes can be placed on the forehead, armpits, etc., or alcohol baths can be used to reduce fever. In addition, you can press the Fengchi or Quchi acupoints for 10 minutes to achieve the effect of sweating and reducing fever.

Method of clearing bowels and relieving heat

It is also called "removing firewood from the bottom of the cauldron", which is to use bitter and cold laxative drugs to achieve the purpose of reducing fever. This method is mainly suitable for patients with high fever and constipation. Even patients have symptoms such as nonsense, yellow and rough tongue coating and thorns. At this time, heat-clearing drugs should be used together with laxative drugs. After the stool is discharged, the heat will also be reduced. This is to promote bowel movements, relieve heat accumulation, and remove evil heat from below, which can achieve the effect of removing fire and reducing fever. Fangfeng Tongsheng Pills can be used for treatment in clinical practice. You can also eat some watermelon or foods that are easy to cause diarrhea, but be careful not to cause excessive diarrhea. In addition, massaging acupoints such as Tianshu, Dachangshu, Daheng, and Neiting can also play a role in clearing the bowels and relieving heat.

Nourishing Yin and Clearing Heat

We can use Yin-nourishing drugs to treat the patient's Yin deficiency fever symptoms. This symptom is mainly suitable for patients with fever in the chest, hands and feet, restlessness when feverish, frequent sweating at night, and thin body. It is also often used to treat some chronic diseases, tumors and other symptoms. This kind of fever symptom cannot be treated with the method we mentioned earlier. It should be treated with Yin-nourishing and heat-clearing. Rehmannia pills can be used for treatment, and acupoints such as Sanyin cross point, Taixi point, and Yongquan point can also be massaged, and more lotus root slices, fruits and other foods can be eaten.