Cold medicine ingredients

Cold medicine is one of the common medicines in the home, but there are many types of cold medicine, including Chinese patent medicine, Western medicine, Chinese and Western medicine, or Chinese medicine decoction, etc. Cold medicine also has many effects, such as antipyretic and analgesic, central nervous system stimulant, anti-disease medicine, etc. Each different medicine will treat different symptoms of colds, so when taking cold medicine, you must first understand your symptoms and then use the right medicine for safety.

In addition, there are many types of colds, including wind-cold colds, wind-heat colds, summer-heat colds, gastrointestinal colds, viral colds, influenza, etc. Different cold symptoms require cold medicines with different ingredients. Let us now learn about the ingredients of cold medicines. I hope it will be helpful to you. I also hope that everyone can pay attention to every cold and use the right medicine for the right symptoms.

Element

According to their ingredients, cold medicines include cold medicines with Western medicine formulas, cold medicines with Chinese medicine formulas, and cold medicines with a combination of Chinese and Western medicines.

Its specific ingredients can be divided into the following categories:

1. Antipyretic and analgesic drugs: They work by inhibiting the synthesis of prostaglandins, such as paracetamol, aspirin, and aminopyrine;

2. Nasal mucosal vasoconstrictors: reduce nasal mucosal congestion and relieve symptoms such as nasal congestion, such as pseudoephedrine;

3. Antihistamines: competitively block H1 receptors, relieve allergic symptoms, control catarrhal inflammation of upper respiratory tract infection, and relieve symptoms such as nasal congestion, runny nose, sneezing, etc. caused by colds, such as chlorpheniramine and diphenhydramine;

4. Antiviral drugs: mainly adamantane for Asian influenza A virus;

5. Central nervous system stimulants: mainly caffeine, which relieves headaches caused by cerebral vasodilation by constricting cerebral blood vessels, thereby enhancing the efficacy of antipyretic analgesics and offsetting the drowsiness of antihistamines;

6. Antitussive drugs: such as dextromethorphan, dioxetine, etc.;

7. Traditional Chinese medicine: For example, artificial bezoar, which has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, is often formulated with western medicine ingredients, such as quick-acting cold capsules; while other traditional Chinese medicines such as kudzu root, honeysuckle, bupleurum, etc. are mostly made into different Chinese patent medicines with more than a dozen or even more than 20 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine according to a certain prescription, such as Shuanghuanglian oral liquid, Xiaochaihu granules, etc.

We all know the ingredients of cold medicine. If you have other symptoms when you have a cold, such as coughing, runny nose, sneezing, or even diarrhea, fever, etc., don't take cold medicine alone. Adding some corresponding medicines to cooperate with the treatment will make the cold get better faster.