Fishweed has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification. It can be used for sore throat caused by external wind-heat; acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis. Whether patients with pharyngitis can drink fishweed, it is recommended to consult the internal medicine department of traditional Chinese medicine, in the traditional Chinese medicine practitioner under the identification of reasonable medication.
There are acute and chronic pharyngitis, Chinese medicine called acute “acute paralysis of the throat (pharynx red, swollen and painful, or dry, foreign body sensation, or throat itching discomfort, difficulty swallowing)” or “wind-heat paralysis of the throat”, the basic pathogenesis for the wind-heat poisonous evil invasion, internal offense of the lungs and stomach, the external evil attracted the lungs and stomach fire heat upward. The basic mechanism of the disease is wind-heat poison attacking the lungs and stomach internally, and the external evils induce the heat of the lungs and stomach to vaporize the throat. Traditional Chinese medicine refers to the chronic condition as “slow laryngeal paralysis” or “deficiency fire laryngeal paralysis”, with the basic pathogenesis being deficiency of yin in the lungs and kidneys, and the inflammation of the deficiency fire, which burns the pharynx.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease should be treated by dispersing wind and heat, relieving pharyngeal pain, nourishing yin and moisturizing the lungs, and promoting the production of fluids and pharyngeal benefits. Fishweed has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, whether the patient can be applied, it is recommended to consult a doctor first, the Chinese medicine practitioner will identify the symptoms and treatments. Follow the doctor’s instructions to use medication.