When I woke up in the morning, I felt phlegm in my throat, but I couldn’t cough or swallow it. It got stuck in my throat, causing nausea and retching when I brushed my teeth.
When I went to work at noon, my throat was red, swollen and sore, and my saliva was sore in my throat. It was like swallowing a red-hot iron lump when I ate a hot meal.
When I went to bed at night, I couldn’t stop coughing violently, my lungs hurt as if they were torn apart, taking medicine and drinking water didn’t help, and it was difficult to fall asleep.
When I went to the hospital for examination, most of them were pharyngitis and tonsillitis. After taking some antibiotics, my condition improved. However, antibiotics can make bacteria and viruses resistant to antibiotics. If you take antibiotics every time the throat is inflamed, acute pharyngitis may develop into chronic pharyngitis.
Chronic pharyngitis is more stubborn, it will torture your throat every day, sore throat when you talk too much, cough when the weather is cold, phlegm in your throat, mouth It also stinks. It can be said that chronic pharyngitis does not know how many people’s patience has been consumed.
Chronic pharyngitis, known as “deficiency fire throat arthralgia” and “curtain bead throat arthralgia” in traditional Chinese medicine, belongs to the category of throat arthralgia
“Chronic throat arthralgia” refers to chronic recurrent disease as a characteristic throat paralysis. Its main clinical manifestations are throat discomfort characterized by dry throat, slight pain, itching, burning, and repeated attacks.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chronic pharyngitis is mostly caused by the following factors
1. Emotional factors
Emotions are also pathogenic factors One, Chinese medicine believes that the liver is in charge of slackening and releasing emotions. If you are often angry and don’t say anything in your heart, it is easy to form liver qi stagnation, resulting in poor qi flow. If the Qi machine is not smooth, then it will be stagnant for a long time and turn into fire, which will hurt the yin. If the body fluid is insufficient, the throat will not be nourished, so the throat will be dry and itchy.
2. Improper diet
Heat and drink, no matter if it’s cold or not Hot, or warm or cold, all of them are stuffed into the spleen and stomach, which will increase the transport and transformation burden on the spleen and stomach. Over time, it will cause the spleen and stomach to become weak. If the spleen loses its health, it will not be able to raise the clear and lower the turbid, and the pharynx will lose its nourishment. If liver stagnation is added at this time, it is easy to form a situation of qi stagnation and phlegm stagnation.
3. False fire will hurt the yin
If the spleen is damaged for a long time, then there will be insufficient qi and blood, and it will also affect our kidneys, resulting in a deficiency of kidney yin. If the kidney yin is insufficient, then the fire will flourish, and the body fluid will be greatly consumed.
Conditioning chronic pharyngitis, traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to syndrome differentiation and treatment
1. Dry throat and discomfort, slight itching and pain, foreign body sensation in the throat, nausea, retching, unpleasant expectoration, dry mouth and good drinking, dry stool. Few or light peeling fur, red tongue, thin pulse.
In this case, we can focus on nourishing yin, producing body fluid, and soothing throat.
2. Liver stagnation and phlegm resistance
The above also talks about liver stagnation and phlegm Generally speaking, such people often have dry throat and dull pain. The throat feels uncomfortable all day long, as if something is stuck in the throat. In addition, the neck is swollen, the chest and flanks are full of pain, the sputum is thick and thick, nausea, and the condition will aggravate when angry. Red tongue, thin and greasy fur, slippery pulse.
For this kind of situation, the treatment is mainly to soothe the liver, regulate the qi, and resolve the phlegm.
3. Qi stagnation and blood stasis
The qi mechanism in the body is not smooth, resulting in poor blood flow, and it will appear after a long time In the case of blood stasis, if the blood stasis is blocked in the throat, then there will be dry pain or tingling in the throat, dryness, and sometimes a burning sensation and a feeling of infarction in the throat, but it is normal when eating.
The tongue is dark purple or has petechiae around the tongue, and the pulse is astringent.
In this case, the treatment mainly focuses on promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and soothing throat.