complicated sickness

I've got a cold obviously. My running nose, sneezes, light headaches are results of the blamefully changeful weather in the last weeks. Rainy, overcast and hot sunny days came seemingly in turns with daily temperatures rising and falling actively between 10 to 25. So every morning recently when I leave home, I would hesitate and rethink over if I should put on one more piece and bring an umbrella with me.

And strangely, my sickness is complicated as I am carrying typical symptoms of typical excess of 'internal heat'. Every day I wake up with dry, bitter and sore throats, heavy eyes and little acne outbreak. 'Internal heat' is a term in traditional Chinese medicine related to aggregation of body toxins from too much intakes of spicy and deep fried food, 'hot and poisonous' fruits (like pineapple), overwork and stresses. I guess too much coffee will worsen things too.

So, in order to return to being a healthy man, firstly against the cold, I choose to drink more hot soup and wear a little more, instead of taking western medicine, for the sake of their possible bad side effects. Secondly regarding to cooling off body heats, I have two strategies:

One, drink more green tea since I just can't sacrifice coffee. Green tea has been reconfirmed all over the world as a very healthy drink, with its high content of powerful antioxidants working out wonders, while Chinese ancient doctors already claimed green tea relieves body toxin, keeps people light and smart, and ensures long life. My city Hangzhou happens to be nicknamed to be capital of green tea, for it produces the best green tea in China but also a large percentage of its residents are religious heavy drinkers.

Two,three pills per day of 'niu huang jie du pian' ( toxin-relieving ox-bezoar pill' by pharmaceutical company Tongrentang, with major ingredients of artificial bezoar, dried kikyou, borneol and licorice. Very good and effective, by my own experience.

I just wish my treatment plan will help me recover as soon as possible, from laughable tortures of the cold and heat, before they might team up to explode my whole head.