In this article, professor XIONG Ji-bo's academic thoughts and unique experience about influenza were discussed through the main symptoms, treatment methods and important personal experience. Professor XIONG points out that the main symptoms of inl uenza included aversion to cold with fever, nasal obstruction, watery nasal discharge, sneeze, headache or body pain and a l oating pulse. The common clinical types of inl uenza are l u caused by wind and cold, l u caused by wind and heat, l u caused by epidemic disease and l u caused by qi deficien...