Tonsillitis can be diagnosed and treated by referring to the relevant contents of Chinese medicine “milk moth”, and the main Chinese herbal prescriptions are Shuanfeng Clearing Heat Tang, Clearing Pharyngeal and Diaphragm Tang, Lily Solid Gold Tang, Six Gentlemen’s Soup, Huixiau Expulsion Blood Stasis Soup, and Ercheng Tang.
1. Wind-heat externally invades and there is heat in the lung meridian. Dry and burning throat, redness and swelling of the throat nucleus, accompanied by coldness (fear of cold) and fever, headache and nasal congestion, red tongue with yellowish moss and floating pulse. When the treatment is to remove wind and clear heat, eliminate swelling and benefit the pharynx, the choice is to remove wind and clear heat soup.
2. Evil heat is transmitted to the interior of the lungs and stomach, and the lungs and stomach are full of heat. Severe pain in the pharynx, difficulty in swallowing, accompanied by high fever, thirst for drinking, bad breath, constipation, red tongue with yellowish greasy coating, and rapid pulse. When the treatment is to drain heat and remove toxins, and eliminate swelling, use clear pharynx and diaphragm soup.
3. Lung and kidney yin deficiency and inflammation of deficiency fire. Dry and itchy pharynx with slight pain, aggravated in the afternoon, accompanied by low fever in the afternoon, insomnia and dreaminess, or dry cough with sticky phlegm, red tongue with little moss, and fine pulse (the pulse becomes narrower and finer and the rate is accelerated). Nourishing the lungs and kidneys, clearing the throat is the treatment, and Lily Solid Gold Soup is used.
4. Weakness of the spleen and stomach and loss of nourishment of the throat nucleus. Dry pharynx with foreign body obstruction, chest and epigastric constriction (feeling of fullness and stuffiness in the chest and abdomen), white phlegm, pale tongue with white greasy coating, and slow and weak pulse can be seen. The treatment should be strengthening the spleen and stomach, dispelling dampness and facilitating the pharynx, and Six Gentlemen’s Soup should be used.
5. Phlegm and stagnant phlegm, coalescing in the nucleus of the throat. Dry and astringent pharynx, or tingling and distending pain, phlegm sticky and difficult to cope with, prolonged and unresolved, dark tongue with petechiae, whitish greasy moss, fine and astringent pulse. The treatment should be to activate blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis, expectorate phlegm and benefit the pharynx, and use Huixiahuayuyuyu Tang combined with Er Chen Tang.
According to the condition of the specific choice of symptomatic traditional Chinese medicine treatment, it is recommended that under the guidance of the doctor regular treatment.