As the weather starts getting cooler in autumn, the incidence of colds and the flu increases. When you get a cold, it is necessary to strengthen the body’s protective qi in order to recover quickly. However, many patients take inappropriate measures when they catch a cold or flu, which causes the body’s protective qi to drop rapidly, making the cold worse.
In the view of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), many diseases are believed to be caused by forces in our environment. These forces are referred to as the six external pathogenic influences, categorized as wind, cold, heat, dryness, dampness, and summer heat. In TCM, it’s believed that a cold is also caused by the invasion of external pathogenic factors.
