Advantages of Chinese Medicine for Ear Diseases

After thousands of years of development, Chinese medicine has formed a unique theoretical system and unique treatment methods. For example, secretory otitis media and tinnitus and deafness are difficult to be cured clinically, but the application of Chinese medicine therapy is still effective. For example, for clinically common secretory otitis media, modern medicine mostly adopts antibiotics, glucocorticoids, antihistamines, local nasal drops with mucosal vasoconstrictors, tympanic membrane puncture and fluid extraction, incision and tube placement, etc. Although they have certain efficacy, they are not yet ideal. Repeated tympanic membrane punctures and incisions can easily cause scarring of the tympanic membrane, and can easily cause adhesions, causing some pain to the patient and high costs. If the tympanic tube is placed, a few patients are prone to detubation or blood clots and sticky secretions often block the tube, which not only fails to treat the patient but also aggravates the condition. In addition, if the tube is placed for too long, it may cause middle ear infection and increase the possibility of purulent otitis media due to tympanic membrane perforation. Chinese medicine practitioners can confirm that if the disease belongs to the type of wind and evil attack and blockage of the meridian, it can be treated with herbal medicines to remove wind and heat and disperse evil and open the orifice; if the disease belongs to the type of evil and poison and stagnation of qi and blood, it can be treated with herbal medicines to move qi and blood and open and close the orifice, or with the Chinese medicine developed by the author, which is also very effective. If the tympanic membrane is congested, you can use our homemade “Huanglian oil” to reduce swelling and pain with external ear drops. The combination of internal and external treatment is complementary and painless. In addition, the new tympanic membrane treatment instrument that has emerged in recent years is essentially an extension of the traditional treatment method, that is, a variation of the pharyngeal tube blowing or tympanic membrane massage method. The principle is to act on the eardrum through the pulse wave (positive and negative pressure) generated by the machine, using the physical principle of two-way vibration of the eardrum to increase and improve the sound transmission function of the eardrum and the auditory chain, and thus enhance the function of the eustachian tube, which can be applied in conjunction. For example, tinnitus and deafness are currently recognized as difficult to treat by the medical community. Most patients are not well treated with western medicine, but some patients have achieved some efficacy through Chinese medicine or with acupuncture and acupoint closure. Acupuncture therapy has a long history in China and is a cultural treasure of our country’s medicine. Some information shows that “acupuncture can promote peripheral blood microcirculation, improve or prevent local ischemia and hypoxia, promote local blood circulation and tissue cell recovery, and can be used for the treatment and prevention of hyperviscosity”. Modern medical treatment principles focus on identifying the disease, analyzing its pathogenesis by the doctrine of microcirculatory disorders, immune doctrine, free gene doctrine, etc., focusing on correcting microcirculatory disorders, and mostly giving immunosuppressive drugs, oxygen administration and other therapies, but the effect is not ideal. In Chinese medicine, tinnitus and deafness are classified into liver fire, phlegm fire, kidney essence deficiency, and spleen and stomach weakness through evidence-based treatment. If the liver fire is disturbed, the herbs are used to clear the liver and heat, to open the depression and clear the orifice, and the acupuncture is based on the laxative method. The author’s treatment of some cases of Western medicine is not effective, through the identification and treatment of Chinese medicine or the author’s development of Chinese medicine, coupled with acupuncture or acupuncture point closure has achieved certain results.