Plum nucleus qi (similar to pharyngeal allodynia) is usually treated with Chinese herbs, acupuncture, and psychology, not surgery, which cannot cure plum nucleus qi either.
1. Pharmacological treatment: Plum nucleus qi can be divided into two types: liver depression and qi stagnation (poor qi and blood transportation in the liver, emotional depression), and phlegm and qi interconnection (phlegm in the body accompanied by poor qi), which need to be diagnosed and treated.
Patients with liver depression and qi stagnation not only have a foreign body sensation in the throat, which cannot be spit out or swallowed, but also have symptoms such as suspiciousness, depression, distension and fullness in the epigastrium (abdomen), heartburn, and a tendency to sigh, etc. It is necessary to dredge the liver and regulate the qi (to regulate liver qi stagnation), and to dissipate and relieve depression, and the commonly used prescription is the addition of the subtraction of the formula of Free Dispenser.
Patients with phlegm-qi interlocks not only have a foreign body sensation in the throat and cannot spit or swallow, but also have symptoms such as coughing, coughing up white phlegm, fatigue, low food intake and love of hiccups, etc. They need to move qi to disperse the lumps and remove phlegm, and the commonly used formula is Half-summer and Houpu Tang with additions and subtractions.
2. Acupuncture and moxibustion treatment: patients with liver depression and stagnation of qi often use acupoints such as foot-sanli, period door, danzhong, neiguan, taichong, hegu, liver yu, etc.; patients with phlegm and qi knot often use zhongkou, fenglong, danzhong, neiguan, taichong, hegu, splenic Yu and so on.
3. Psychotherapy: psychological counseling intervention should be carried out for patients to eliminate psychological burdens, and behavioral therapy can also be carried out to allow patients to relax themselves and improve their symptoms.
Some patients can reduce the symptoms of active treatment or even cure, but if the emotional stimulation, it is easy to recur, it is recommended that patients who are not feeling well go to the regular hospital in time, and follow the doctor’s instructions to identify and treat.