A. Q: What symptoms do doctors use to diagnose allergic rhinitis? A: The nasal cavity is the first line of defense of the human respiratory tract. Various allergens first cause congestion, edema and increased secretions in the nasal mucosa. Nasal itching, nasal congestion, continuous sneezing and large amounts of clear water nasal discharge are typical manifestations of allergic rhinitis, which can easily be mistaken for a cold and neglected for treatment, making rhinitis more delayed. There are obvious seasonality due to different allergens, most people are prone to develop the disease in spring and autumn when the temperature changes a lot. During the onset of the disease, there is a lot of nasal mucosa suitable for bacterial multiplication and it is easy to combine with sinusitis, yellow-green nasal mucus, headache, nasal mucus flowing backwards along the postnasal passage to the pharynx called postnasal drip syndrome, sputum, bad breath and pharyngitis. Because the nose is connected to the ear through the eustachian tube, it can also cause otitis media, resulting in tinnitus, ear pain, pus, and hearing loss. There can be concurrent allergic conjunctivitis such as red eyes, itchy eyes, tearing in the wind, and blinking. Repeated allergies and infections cause adenoiditis, which causes adenoid hypertrophy by the age of six and aggravates nasal congestion, breathlessness, snoring, headache, and affects sleep and intelligence. Years of allergic rhinitis can induce chronic cough and asthma. If rhinitis is not cured, it can cause general discomfort, such as decreased sense of smell, loss of appetite, restless sleep, memory loss in children, slow development, etc. Q: Which groups of people are suitable to suffer from allergic rhinitis? A: Allergies are related to genetics, and about 15% of people have a family history of allergic diseases. After birth, infants love to have eczema, nasal congestion, clear nose, even shortness of breath, loose stools, and always sick. Preschoolers from three to six years old are the {emerging age for allergic rhinitis. In addition to genetic reasons, it is also related to the external environment and physical strength. After the age of three, there are more opportunities for contact with pollen, dust mites and other allergens. This is the age when the internal organs of the child are not well developed, and Chinese medicine believes that children are infantile yin and yang, the spleen is often deficient and the lungs are often deficient, so if the diet, cold and temperature are not well taken care of, they are prone to allergic rhinitis. When they go to elementary school, especially after Q teeth, Chinese medicine believes that this is a sign that the child’s kidney energy is strong, and allergic rhinitis will be relieved a lot. Healthy people, career, family pressure, irregular life, less exercise …, feel sleepy and weak, back pain, insomnia and dreamy, it is easy to immune dysfunction, resistance to decline. As a result eczema, hives skin allergies, if the cold is not treated in time to get allergic rhinitis, pharyngitis. Some people commit in spring and autumn, and some people do not heal all year round and menopause and the elderly are more prone to people who had rhinitis when they were young, once they reached their fifties, rhinitis, pharyngitis again, and can soon turn into asthma. Q: How to treat allergic rhinitis with Chinese medicine? A: On the one hand, we use medicine to improve allergic symptoms to cure nasal congestion and clear snot, but we do not limit ourselves to “rhinitis for nose”, but pay more attention to the whole body conditioning, improve the patient’s allergic state, repair the immune function, and achieve the effect of radical cure. Case 1: Yao male, more than 4 years old, more than a year since he went to kindergarten, morning cold wind runny nose, sneezing, blinking, always rubbing his nose, phlegm in his throat, sweating when sleeping, restless sleep, yellow and thin, anorexia and picky eating, always said his stomach hurt, stool once every two or three days, smooth pulse, red tongue with thick white coating. The TCM diagnosis was that the spleen was deficient and the lung was hot. We first treated the rhinitis by dispersing wind and clearing phlegm from the lung, then toned up the spleen and stomach to strengthen the body, treating anorexia, excessive sweating and constipation. After conditioning, appetite improved, face became red, weight increased, and the rhinitis did not pah wind did not offend. Case 2: Fang female, 44 years old, suffering from rhinitis for more than half a year. From the spring began sneezing, clear snot, sometimes itchy nose, itchy red eyes, mistaken for a cold is always bad, but did not treat in time. After that, yellow pus nasal discharge appeared, and backward drip spit yellow sputum, nasal congestion aggravated, headache, dry mouth. In the past one or two years, she has been off, irritable, sleepy, insomnia, facial pigmentation, postmenstrual e, dark color, low menstrual flow, fine string pulse, dark red tongue with yellow moss. This case is a healthy state prone to fatigue, endocrine disorders, immune dysfunction, suffering from allergic rhinitis, developing into sinusitis combined with postnasal drip syndrome. The treatment used the method of lung detoxification and phlegm detoxification to treat rhinitis for two weeks first, and then added the medicine of kidney and liver tonification to regulate neuroendocrine and improve health. The symptoms of rhinitis and overall symptoms such as insomnia, irritability and menstruation were greatly improved.