Dry nose belongs to the category of Chinese medicine nasal haggard, which can be categorized into dryness offending the lungs, deficiency of lung and kidney yin, and weakness of spleen qi (weak spleen qi), etc. Drugs such as Clearing Dryness and Rescuing Lungs Soup, Lily Solid Gold Soup, and Replenishing the Middle Jiao Qi Soup, etc., should be taken for different types of treatments.
1. Dryness that offends the lungs: the main symptoms are dryness in the nose, burning pain, and snot crusts with blood. Under the guidance of the doctor, the patient can use Qingdian Lung Rescue Soup with additional subtractions, which can be combined with mulberry leaves, gypsum, ginseng, maitong and other traditional Chinese medicines, and the treatment is based on clearing dryness and moistening the lungs, and propagating the lungs to dissipate the evils.
2. Lung and kidney yin deficiency: the main symptoms are reddish and dry nasal mucosa, epistaxis (nosebleed), loss of sense of smell, or foul-smelling nasal breath, pus and scab accumulation. Patients can follow the doctor’s instruction to use Lily Solid Gold Soup plus subtractions, in which raw earth, ripened dihuang, lily, maitong and other Chinese medicines are used to nourish the yin of the lungs and kidneys, and it also has the effect of promoting the production of fluids and moisturizing dryness.
3. Weakness of spleen qi: the main symptoms are dryness in the nose, pale color of nasal mucosa, headache and dizziness. Patients can follow the doctor’s instructions to take tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi soup, but the nasal mucus yellow-green fishy odor, but also need to use the use of coix lacryma, cocos, fish grass and other drugs to clear heat and remove dampness and turbidity.
The above drugs need to be used under the guidance of a physician, do not self-medication, so as not to cause adverse consequences. It is recommended that patients with dry noses go to the hospital in time, by professional doctors to identify and treat, so as not to delay the condition.