Chronic pharyngitis is a chronic inflammation of the mucosa, submucosa and lymphatic tissue of the pharynx, and depending on the lesion, it can be divided into three types: simple, proliferative and atrophic. Chronic pharyngitis can be caused by many reasons, such as recurrent episodes of acute pharyngitis and adjacent organ diseases (chronic tonsillitis, gingivitis, chronic rhinitis, chronic sinusitis). External cold and dry climate, the air in the work environment is polluted by dust, chemical gases, tobacco, alcohol and spicy food long-term stimulation, as well as due to occupational factors and excessive use of the voice of people are prone to chronic pharyngitis. In addition, long-term irregularities in life, fatigue, mental tension, can make the body resistance to decline, bacteria and viruses are prone to repeated infections, can also cause chronic pharyngitis.
Chinese medicine has categorized the disease into three types.
1, Yin deficiency fire inflammation type: pharyngeal discomfort, vague pain, foreign body sensation, low amount of mucous phlegm, accompanied by afternoon annoyance and heat, back and legs soreness, red tongue, and fine pulse.
2.Phlegm obstructing blood stasis type: dryness of the pharynx, stabbing pain, deep red mucous membrane of the pharynx, often nausea and discomfort due to frequent throat clearing. The tongue is red, the coating is yellow and greasy, and the pulse is smooth and counted.
3.Yin deficiency and fluid depletion type: dry and itchy pharynx, burning and dry pain, pain can be temporarily relieved after drinking water, obvious foreign body sensation, dreamy at night, tinnitus and blurred eyes. The tongue is red and less fluid, and the pulse is thin and counted.
Chinese medicine treatment focuses on treating the root of the disease, and the medication is used according to the dialectical typing method, which is more effective. The general medication used is.
1, yin deficiency fire inflammation type, with nourishing yin and clearing lung soup plus flavor (maitong, raw earth, xuan shen, white peony, licorice, raw gypsum, peppermint, Chuanbei powder, danpi, mulberry leaf, etc.).
2. For the type of phlegm obstructing blood stasis, add flavor to the Decongestant Pill (Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, Oyster, Chuanbei, Radix et Rhizoma Rawhide, Mai Dong, Trigonella, Kun Bu, Seaweed, etc.).
3. For the type of Yin deficiency and fluid depletion, add the flavor of Shengwei Drink (Bai Sun Ginseng, Mai Dong, Wu Wei Zi, Dendrobium, Yu Zhu, Bai Mao Root, Zhu Ru, etc.).
Caution: Avoid spicy products and tobacco and alcohol stimulation. Pay attention to oral hygiene, strengthen physical exercise, enhance physical fitness, prevent respiratory tract infections, arrange life reasonably, and maintain a relaxed mood.
Reasonable arrangement of life, maintain a relaxed mood, avoid worry and depression, etc.
The following ten herbal teas are available for selection.
1.Luo Han Guo tea
Luo Han Guo 1. Cut up the Luohan fruit, brew with boiling water for 10 minutes and then drink it at any time. 1-2 times a day, 1 each time.
Clears lung and resolves phlegm, quenches thirst and moistens throat. Mainly used for chronic pharyngitis, dry throat discomfort, laryngeal pain and loss of voice, or cough and dry mouth due to lung yin deficiency and phlegm-heat interconnection. Food Chinese medicine and convenient recipe: “actors, teachers, broadcasters and other people who need to protect the articulation organs are often cut up with Luo Han Guo, soak water to drink as tea is effective.”
2, olive tea
Take two olives, green tea 1 g. Cut the olives in half with the core, put them into a cup with the green tea, pour boiling water, cover with a lid and muffle for 5 minutes and drink.
Suitable for chronic pharyngitis, foreign body sensation in the throat.
3.Fat sea raw earth tea
Fat sea 5, raw earth 12g, 30g of rock sugar, tea appropriate amount. The above drugs together in a hot water bottle, boiling water brewing half a bottle, cover smothered for about 15 minutes, regardless of the number of times, frequently drink as tea. According to the patient’s drinking amount, 2-3 doses daily.
Clear the lung and throat, nourish yin and generate fluid. Used for chronic pharyngitis is a deficiency of lung yin, such as hoarseness, more language is dry and itchy in the throat or dry cough, dry stool, it is most appropriate to use.
4.Olive Sea Honey Tea
3g of olives, 3 pieces of fat sea, 3g of green tea, 1 tbsp of honey. Boil the olives in water for a moment, then brew the fat sea and green tea, smother the cover for a moment, mix with honey and drink. 1-2 doses daily.
Clears heat and detoxifies the throat. Mainly for chronic laryngitis, throat dryness, or hoarseness and other evidence of Yin deficiency dry heat.
5, two green lady’s maidenhair tea
Green calyx plum, green tea, orange complex 3 g each, chasteberry 6 g. First, crush chasteberry, with the first three flavors into a cup, with boiling water can be brewed. Take 1 dose daily at any time.
Nourishing Yin and sharpening the pharynx, promoting the flow of Qi and resolving phlegm. For liver and kidney yin deficiency, deficiency fire, phlegm phlegm sore throat discomfort, foreign body sensation in the throat, drinking it is beneficial.
6.Mulberry, chrysanthemum and almond tea
Mulberry leaf 10g, chrysanthemum 10g, almonds 10g, sugar appropriate amount. Almonds crushed, and mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, sugar together in a thermos, add boiling water, about 15 minutes after the cover smothered, you can drink as tea, drink while adding boiling water, 1 dose a day.
Function to clear heat and remove wind, phlegm and throat.
7.Double root and sea tea
15g of Panax notoginseng, 10g of samphire root, 10g of licorice, 5g of fat sea. put together in a thermos, brew with boiling water, cover smothered for 20 minutes and then drink as tea. Also can add water decoction, pour heat preservation bottle slowly drink, 1 dose per day.
Function clear heat, detoxification, pharyngeal, for chronic pharyngitis sore throat obvious.
8, vervain mung bean honey tea
Fresh vervain 50g, mung beans 30g, honey 30g. mung beans washed and drained, fresh vervain with roots washed, tied with a thread into 2 small bundles, and mung beans together in a pot, add water 1500 ml stewed over low heat for 1 hour, until the mung beans are crispy, remove the fire, fish out the vervain, while hot add honey stirred can drink soup and eat beans. Daily 1 dose, divided into 2 servings, and served for several days.
9.Clear sound tea
It can be taken with 5g of fat sea, 3g of cicada, 15g of dendrobium, decocted in water and drink as tea.
It is suitable for those who have chronic pharyngitis with hoarseness and hoarse voice.
10.Hawthorn tea
The medicine uses 20g of raw hawthorn, 20g of Salvia miltiorrhiza and 15g of Xiaquan Cao. when using, first wash away the floating dust with water, then add water and decoct for 30 minutes, strain the juice and drink it as tea several times a day.
FunctionsActivate blood circulation and disperse nodules, clear heat and promote pharynx. Indicated for chronic pharyngitis with obvious lymphatic follicle hyperplasia in the pharynx.