Chronic pharyngitis is a common disease, a diffuse pharyngeal lesion caused by chronic infection, mainly inflammation of the pharyngeal mucosa. The main causes are repeated acute pharyngitis, long-term dust or harmful gas stimulation, excessive smoking, alcohol or other bad habits, sinusitis secretion stimulation, allergies or low body resistance. Chronic pharyngitis can also be a local manifestation of certain systemic diseases, such as anemia, diabetes, liver cirrhosis and chronic nephritis.
The incidence of pharyngeal diseases in urban residents accounts for about 10% to 20%. It is not easy to cure because of its long course, stubborn symptoms and short term difficulty in seeing significant effects. The main causes are roughly as follows:
1, acute pharyngitis repeated episodes failed to completely cure and become chronic, long-term dust or harmful gas stimulation, excessive smoking and alcohol or other bad habits, sinusitis secretions stimulation, allergies or body resistance is reduced.
2, chronic pharyngitis can also be a local manifestation of certain systemic diseases, such as anemia, indigestion, long-term constipation, heart disease, bronchitis, asthma, liver lesions, diabetes and chronic nephritis, etc.
3.Occupational factors. It mainly occurs in voice workers, such as teachers, actors and so on. Because of long-term multi-lingual and singing, can stimulate the pharynx, causing chronic congestion and cause disease. Chronic pharyngitis self-diagnosis points: a variety of symptoms, pharyngeal discomfort, foreign body sensation, phlegm sticky feeling, always feel that the pharynx can not swallow and can not spit things, blockage, swelling, burning, dryness, itching, irritation cough, slightly sore throat, etc.. Coughing is often used to remove secretions, especially in the morning when coughing hard to eliminate pharyngeal secretions, the symptoms have a brief relief. Since cancers of the esophagus or hypopharynx may also have similar symptoms in the early stage, a detailed examination should be done at the hospital after the above symptoms are detected to confirm the diagnosis.
Self-diagnosis points.
Discomfort in the throat, foreign body sensation, always feeling something in the throat that cannot be swallowed and cannot be spit out, irritating cough, dryness, swelling, blockage, itching, etc., but rarely sore throat. Early in the morning often spit out sticky phlegm lumps easily cause nausea. Since cancers in the esophagus or hypopharynx may have similar symptoms in early stage, you should go to hospital for detailed examination after finding the above symptoms to confirm the diagnosis.
Treatment suggestion.
Targeted treatment should be carried out by a doctor according to the cause of the disease. Local symptomatic treatment can use Chinese medicine, such as li-pharyngeal spirit, grass coral tablets, security, etc. It can be combined with tea: double flower, maitong, fat sea, raw licorice each equal part, boiled water brewed frequently. Clear throat drink: 50 grams each of Ume plum meat, raw licorice, saxifrage, maitake, orchid, yuan shen, crushed and mixed, 3 times a day, each time take about 15 grams, drink with boiling water.
Precautions.
Pay attention to oral hygiene, insist on brushing teeth in the morning and evening and after meals. Reduce the stimulation of tobacco, alcohol and dust, and also need to correct the bad habit of open-mouth breathing. Should strengthen physical exercise, enhance physical fitness, prevent respiratory tract infections, use less tobacco and alcohol, and actively treat diseases of organs around the pharynx. Reasonable arrangement of life, keep a relaxed mood, avoid worry and depression. Keep the appropriate temperature and humidity in the room and fresh air. It is advisable to eat light, with acid, sweet nourishing some food, such as fruits, fresh vegetables, green fruits, etc. Often take four seasons throat lozenges, mint throat tablets, etc.
1.Western medical diagnosis criteria:
(1) medical history: often have a history of recurrent episodes of acute pharyngitis, or long-term open-mouth breathing due to nasal disease and excessive smoking and alcohol, dry bad air, dust and irritating gas pollution, etc.
(2) Symptoms: pharyngeal discomfort, or pain, or itching, or dryness, burning, smoky feeling, foreign body sensation, etc.; irritating cough, coughing up secretions in the morning, or even vomiting. The duration of the disease is more than 2 months, often due to cold, flu, fatigue, talkative and other causes of symptoms
(3) Examination: chronic congestion in the pharynx, aggravated. It is dark red, or dendritic congestion; lymphatic follicle hyperplasia in the posterior pharyngeal wall, or enlargement of the lateral pharyngeal cord; hyperplasia and hypertrophy of the pharyngeal mucosa, or dryness, atrophy, thinning, and adhesion of secretions. With each of the above symptoms and one or more of the examination, the diagnosis can be made.
2, Chinese medicine identification:
Deficiency fire, lung and spleen qi deficiency, phlegm-heat, phlegm-stasis and mutual obstruction
Chinese medicine classifies this disease into three types.
I. Yin deficiency and fire inflammation type: throat discomfort, vague pain, foreign body sensation, low amount of mucous phlegm, accompanied by afternoon irritability and heat, waist and leg weakness, red tongue, and fine pulse.
Second, phlegm obstructing blood stasis type: dryness of the pharynx, stabbing pain, deep red pharyngeal muscle membrane, 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.
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, the pulse is thin.
The treatment of chronic pharyngitis Western medicine generally focus on local medication, such as: mouthwash, with 2% shed acid solution, 3% saline and 1:5000 furacilin solution repeatedly mouthwash, or with 2% iodine glycerin, 5% strong protein silver solution through the pharyngeal wall, or iodine tablets, dumefen, mint, etc. contained in the oral cavity, etc., have some relief of the symptoms of the function. Local symptomatic treatment can also be used in proprietary Chinese medicine, such as grass coral tablets, watermelon cream, etc.
Chinese medicine treatment of the disease focuses on the root cause, according to the dialectical typing method of medicine, the efficacy is better. For the type of yin deficiency and fire inflammation, add flavor to nourish yin and clear lung soup (Medlar, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma, Radix et Rhizoma. (such as white ginseng, maitong, wu wei zi, dendrobium, yu zhu, white fungus root, bamboo rhizome, etc.), a daily dose, frequent moistening the throat.
Caution: Avoid spicy products and tobacco and alcohol stimulation. Pay attention to oral hygiene.
(Strengthen physical exercise, enhance physical fitness, prevent respiratory tract infections, rationalize life, maintain a relaxed mood, avoid worry and depression, etc.)
Dietary regimen: pharyngeal tea drink: double flower, maitong, wood butterfly, fat sea, raw licorice 3-5 grams each, boiled water brewed frequently. Clear throat drink: 50 grams each of Ume plum flesh, raw licorice, saxifrage, maitake, orchid, yuan shen, pounded and mixed, 3 times a day, each serving about 15 grams, drink with boiling water.
After chronic pharyngitis is cured, in order to consolidate the effect of treatment to prevent recurrence, you can often eat the following foods.
Mung bean and kelp soup
Ingredients: mung beans one or two, kelp one or two, a little sugar.
Method: mung beans and kelp (shredded) put in a pot, add water and boil, and then into the sugar seasoning, drink as tea every day.
Watermelon juice: watermelon cut open to take the juice, frequently as tea. That can clear the heat to remove annoyance, but also to nourish Yin and moisten dryness, very suitable to eat often.
The tricky use of medicinal tea treatment chronic pharyngitis
Experience has shown that the correct application of medicinal tea can help treat chronic pharyngitis. The following ten herbal teas can be used.
Luo Han Guo tea]
Luo Han Guo 1. The Luohan fruit chopped, brewed with boiling water for 10 minutes, and then drink at any time. 1 to 2 times a day, 1 each time. Functions: Clearing lung and resolving phlegm, quenching thirst and moistening throat. It is mainly used for chronic pharyngitis, dry throat discomfort, sore throat and loss of voice, or cough and dry mouth due to deficiency of lung yin, phlegm and heat. Food Chinese medicine and convenient recipe said: “actors, teachers, broadcasters and other people who need to protect the articulation organs often cut up with Luo Han Guo, soak water to drink as tea is effective.”
Olive tea]
Take two olives and 1g of green tea, cut the olives in half, put them into a cup with the green tea, pour boiling water into it, cover it with a lid and drink it after 5 minutes. Suitable for people with chronic pharyngitis and foreign body sensation in the throat.
Sea of raw earth tea]
5 pieces of fat sea, 12g of raw earth, 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 to 3 doses daily. Clear the lung and throat, nourish yin and generate fluid. For chronic pharyngolaryngitis with deficiency of lung yin, such as hoarseness, dry itchy or dry cough in the throat if one speaks more, dark red throat, hypertrophy of the vocal cords, or even incomplete closure of the vocal cords, small nodules in the vocal cords, red tongue with little coating, etc. It is most suitable for chronic laryngitis with deficiency of lung yin, deficiency of fire and actuality, and dry stools.
Olive Sea Honey Tea
3g of olives, 3 pieces of fat sea, 3g of green tea and 1 tbsp of honey. Boil the olives in water for a moment, then brew the fat sea and green tea, stifle the cover for a moment, mix with honey and drink slowly. Take 1 to 2 doses daily. Clear heat and detoxify the throat. Mainly for chronic laryngitis, dry throat, or hoarse voice and other evidence of Yin deficiency and dry heat.
Two green maidenhair tea]
Green calyx plum, green tea, orange luo 3 g each, chasteberry 6 g. Crush chasteberry first, and then add the first three flavors into a cup and brew with boiling water. Take 1 dose daily at any time. Nourishing Yin and sharpening the pharynx, promoting the flow of Qi and resolving phlegm. It is good for sore throat and discomfort and foreign body sensation in the throat due to deficiency of liver and kidney yin, deficiency fire and phlegm.
Mulberry, chrysanthemum and almond tea
Mulberry leaf 10g, chrysanthemum 10g, almonds 10g, sugar appropriate amount. Almonds crushed, with mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, sugar together in a thermos, add boiling water to brew, about 15 minutes after the cover smothered, you can drink as tea, drink while adding boiling water, 1 dose a day. Functions clear heat and wind, phlegm and throat.
Double root and sea tea]
15g of Panax notoginseng, 10g of Radix notoginseng, 10g of Glycyrrhiza glabra, 5g of Fatty sea, put together in a thermos flask, brew with boiling water, cover and smother for 20 minutes, then drink as tea. Also can add water decoction, pour the thermos to drink slowly, 1 dose per day. It has the effect of clearing heat, detoxification and pharyngeal benefit, and is suitable for those with chronic pharyngitis and sore throat.
Verbena mung bean honey tea]
Fresh vervain 50g, mung beans 30g, honey 30g. wash and drain the mung beans, fresh vervain with the roots washed, tied into 2 small bundles with thread, 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. 1 dose per day, divided into 2 servings, for several days.
QingYin 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.
Hawthorn tea]
Use 20g of raw hawthorn, 20g of Salvia miltiorrhiza, 15g of Xiaquan Cao, first wash off 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 follicular hyperplasia in the pharynx.
Guidelines for consultation.
1, eliminate various causative factors, such as treatment of systemic diseases, treatment of sinusitis. Pay attention to nutrition, enhance physical exercise. Avoid irritating food, tobacco and alcohol, and wear a mask when working in an environment with dust or irritating gas.
2, according to the different types of pharyngitis to take different treatment methods. Local use of compound borax solution, furacilin solution, light salt water gargle, a variety of tablets to take. The golden voice and pharyngeal pill, Lopin Qing oral, etc.
3, do not casually use fat sea punch.
4, hypertrophic pharyngitis can be applied to laser cautery or microwave coagulation.
5, can be nebulized inhalation treatment. For dry, dry cough and other symptoms have certain benefits.
Three methods of clever treatment of chronic pharyngitis
1, massage.
(1) with the thumb with the index and middle fingers to rub both sides of the throat 20 to 30 times.
(2) with the thumb, index finger pinch the skin of the throat 20 to 30 times, so that local redness, throat heat is good. Press the cataract, tiantu and hegu points for 1 minute each. Once a day in the morning and once in the evening.
2, moxibustion method.
Take Hegu, Quchi, Waiguan, any point of your choice, and use gentle moxibustion or acupressure for 5 to 20 minutes each time, whenever symptoms occur.
3. Blood pricking therapy.
Take the vein at the upper back of the ear, first rub the affected ear gently with your hand to make it locally congested, then look for the vein behind the ear, after routine local disinfection, puncture the vein behind the ear with a milli-needle, squeeze out 3-5 drops of blood, that is, press the needle hole with an alcohol cotton ball. Once a day. The second time, puncture was performed on the affected side of the back of the ear below the site of surgery. The third time is still at the first site. This method is especially good for children. You can also use a trigeminal needle to puncture the veins in the back of the ear, the inner channel and the back of the ear, and apply several drops of blood once a day.
Chronic pharyngitis dietary regimen
1, eat food rich in collagen and elastin, such as pig’s feet, pig skin, hoof, fish, beans, seafood, etc., is conducive to the repair of chronic pharyngitis damage parts.
2, more intake of food rich in B vitamins, such as animal liver, lean meat, fish, fresh fruit, green vegetables, milk, beans, etc., is conducive to promoting the repair of the damaged pharynx and eliminating inflammation of the respiratory mucosa.
3, eat less or do not eat fried, spicy and irritating food, such as: doughnuts, sesame balls, fried cake, chili, garlic, pepper, etc.
4, often drink some pharyngeal fluid therapeutic drinks, the following two examples for reference: green tea and honey drink: green tea 5 grams, the right amount of honey. Green tea in a cup, brewed into boiling water, add honey to drink, 1 dose daily. It can clear the heat and throat, moisten the lungs and produce body fluid. Lily and mung bean soup: 20 grams of lily, 50 grams of mung beans, the right amount of rock sugar. Boil lily and mung beans with water, add rock sugar and drink, 1 dose daily. It can clear heat and moisten the lung, nourish yin and produce body fluid.