Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment for Pediatric Snoring

Traditional Chinese medicine treatments for pediatric snoring include taking medicines and using stabbing and cutting method. After phlegm-dampness and blood stasis obstruction manifested as open-mouth breathing, snoring, obesity, phlegm, and heavy body sleepiness in pediatrics, Taohong Si Wu Tang combined with Phlegm Guiding Tang can be taken. Taohong Si Wu Tang is composed of safflower, peach kernel, red peony, licorice, Radix et rhizoma Glycyrrhizae, Rhizoma Sheng Di, and Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, with imprecise adverse effects and contraindications. Phlegm Conducting Tang is composed of Semixia, Prepared Nansing, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, Poria, and Citrus Aurantium, and the adverse effects and contraindications are not precise. Lung, spleen and qi deficiency followed by snoring, even dyspnea, obesity, muscle flaccidity, fatigue, poor appetite, poor memory, stunted growth and poor concentration can be treated by tonifying the middle Jiao Qi (treating qi deficiency by tonifying the spleen) Tang, which is composed of Astragalus, Atractylodes Macrocephalae, Atractylodes macrocephala, Aspergillus nigra, Bupleurum officinale, Angelica sinensis, Pericarpium Citriodora, Codonopsis pilosulae and Glycyrrhiza glabra. Adverse reactions and contraindications are imprecise. 3. Prick and cut method mainly has the effect of eliminating swelling and dissipating blood stasis, using millimetre needle or needle knife to prick and cut the throat wall, lymphoid follicles at the root of the tongue and the nucleus of the throat, making a small amount of bleeding, which can help to alleviate the symptoms of snoring. Taking medication requires doctor’s guidance, and stabbing and cutting requires professional doctor’s operation, not self-medication and treatment.