Pharyngitis is a frequent and common disease among children, which belongs to the category of “mouth sores” in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). TCM treatments include oral medications, acupoint plasters, and herbal enemas, etc. The most popular TCM treatments for pharyngitis are forsythia, honeysuckle, licorice, scullcap, and scutellaria.
1. Oral medicines: The most popular Chinese medicines used in the treatment of pharyngitis are forsythia, honeysuckle, licorice and scutellaria.
Honeysuckle and forsythia have the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, evacuating wind-heat, and are often used in conjunction with each other; Scutellaria is bitter and cold in nature, which can clear heat from the lungs and stomach, and is effective in the redness, swelling and pain in the pharynx; and licorice clears heat and removes toxins, and harmonizes all the medicines.
2. Acupuncture Points Patching: Generally, Qing Pharyngeal Powder (prescription: Gallus gallus, Rhubarb, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum) is applied externally on Yongquan acupoints to induce heat downward, and draw out the fire and heat from head and face downward, so as to get rid of the evils.
3. Chinese medicine enema: generally adopts clearing heat and removing toxin soup (prescription: gypsum, forsythia, honeysuckle, scutellaria baicalensis, chaihu, tempeh, root of bluebells, bamboo leaf, big green leaf, gardenia) to keep enema treatment of pharyngeal isthmus to achieve laxative, clearing heat and removing toxin.
After the appearance of the above symptoms should consult the hospital in time, under the guidance of professional physicians to identify the use of the above treatment methods, do not operate on your own, so as not to cause damage to the organism.