**Preventing and Treating the Common Cold**
As the winter months approach, many individuals have begun experiencing symptoms associated with the season, including body aches, runny noses, and coughs. These uncomfortable symptoms often occur after exposure to cold temperatures. Seong Si-cheol, director of Daejeon Samhan Clinic, goes in-depth about the prevention and treatment of the common cold through Oriental medicine.
Academics in the field of cold treatment first tap into Western medicine, which primarily focuses on symptom relief through antibiotics, antitussives, expectorants, antihistamines, and antipyretics. However, such drugs may lead to increasing symptoms or drug resistance without significant recovery. Consequently, Oriental medicine views cold as a disruption in the body’s ability to combat the chill. This approach involves warming the body and using acupuncture and herbal medicine to restore balance and wellness.
Si-cheol emphasizes the importance of proper diagnosis and treatment tailored to individual patients, steering away from common prescriptions. Additionally, the significance of boosting immunity through personal hygiene, regular exercise, maintaining body warmth, and adequate rest cannot be overlooked. He further suggests that parents refrain from giving antibiotics too early to children, as it may hinder the development of their immune system.
As the winter approaches, it’s essential to prioritize one’s health. Si-cheol hopes that readers will consider these methods and enjoy a warm winter without succumbing to the common cold.
Seong Si-cheol, director of Daejeon Samhan Clinic (member of Diagnostic Society, Herbal Acupuncture Society, and Abstract Society)
Winter is fast approaching.
Those who were unable to pack thick winter clothes due to the sudden cold weather are experiencing more and more body aches, runny noses, and coughs after shivering in cold places.
At Oriental Medicine Clinic, we will tell you how to spot and treat a cold, as well as lifestyle habits to prevent colds.
Firstly, before looking at ‘eastern medicine’ cold treatment, if you take a quick look at ‘western medicine’ cold treatment, you will see that the treatments are mainly aimed at relieving symptoms.
Antibiotics to kill bacteria, antitussives to relieve cough and asthma, expectorants to reduce phlegm, antihistamines to prevent excessive immune responses, and antipyretics to reduce high fever are administered depending on the symptoms.
These drugs have the advantage of reducing symptoms in the early stages, but if the patient cannot overcome the disease and recover clearly, the symptoms will worsen again.
Furthermore, if you continue to take the drug, you develop a resistance to the drug, so the symptoms no longer decrease, your stamina is depleted, and your physical condition often gets worse!
So, how does oriental medicine see a cold?
In Oriental medicine, a cold is called a cold, which literally means “being hurt by cold energy,” but academically, it means that the body’s system to fight or use the cold is broken.
No matter how cold it is, if you have a healthy constitution, you can overcome the cold, but if you have a weak constitution, you can easily catch a cold even in the slightest cold.
So, today’s topic is the common cold. <사기(邪氣)와의 전쟁>It is often expressed as.
If you have many troops and are well trained, you can take on even the strongest enemies, but if you have few troops and their training is poor, you can carry out complex operations such as a temporary retreat, raising troops, retraining them, and attacking again, or using guerilla tactics. You have to press it.
The same is true of our bodies.
So, how does Oriental medicine treat colds?
As it is damaged by cold, the basic response is to warm it up, as the readers know.
This is why, when the cold pains start to appear, you can feel better just by sweating it out in a hot room.
If the cold gets stronger, you need to use acupuncture and herbal medicine to help get rid of the cold.
You may be wondering, ‘Can acupuncture be used for a cold?’ right?
Acupuncture helps blood circulation, and if you choose the right acupuncture points, it normalizes the body system and is very effective. If you use herbal medicine well here, you can quickly overcome a cold.
But the important thing is to choose and use acupuncture or herbal medicine carefully!
If the patient’s constitution to deal with the cold is weak, the treatment method becomes complicated, as mentioned above. If the patient’s body is weak and cannot overcome it, different methods must be used.
It requires strong physical strength, but if your body is weak, it may not be able to handle it and you may end up feeling cold.
That is why the symptoms do not disappear completely even after taking antibiotics or antipyretic drugs and they can recur or get worse. Therefore, it is not wise to look at the disease and prescribe the same medicine without seeing the person.
As such, cold treatment in Oriental medicine varies greatly depending on the situation.
Therefore, the commonly mentioned prescription of “Ssanghwatang for cold” is a very dangerous idea.
If you consider each cold remedy depending on the situation, there could be hundreds or thousands of different cold remedies.
Therefore, we recommend that you boost your immunity in advance through cold prevention methods rather than prescriptions.
This is because prevention is a way to help the body recover from even mild initial symptoms.
First, immunity protects your body by practicing thorough personal hygiene, such as washing your hands after going out and brushing your teeth before going to bed.
Secondly, if you exercise regularly and your blood circulation improves, your immunity will naturally increase.
Third, you need to keep your body warm, avoid immediate food, and drink warm water often.
If you leave your body cold and eat instant food or cold water frequently, blood circulation problems will occur and your immunity will decrease.
Fourth, go to bed early at night and get plenty of rest. Although the day is a time for activity, the night is a time for recovery through rest. As recovery at night is much better than recovery during the day, you must ensure that your immunity and recovery are not is reduced by adequate recovery.
Finally, if you have a weak constitution, it is a good idea to take tonics in advance these days before the change of seasons to boost your stamina and immunity.
Giving children antibiotics too early when they have a cold can be bad for the development of their immune system.
Being sick is a learning and studying experience for the body, and antibiotics take the opportunity for that experience and studying.
If the disease is not serious, the body can grow to the next level by overcoming the disease through appropriate measures, and the body can later respond appropriately to attacks by various germs to reduce damage.
We must also consider that the impatience of some parents who are always shouting ‘Hurry, Hurry’ can hinder their children’s growth.
Therefore, oriental medicine treatment can be very helpful in these areas.
<사기(邪氣)와의 전쟁>Preventing war before it is the best way, responding well after war is the second way, and not understanding the situation and responding properly after war is the worst way.
We hope Chungcheong Herald readers will choose the best method and have a warm winter without cold.
#Cold #cough #cold.. #morale #war
