Experts interviewed: Deputy Chief Physician, Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Ph.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., Senior Physician, Department of Otolaryngology, Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Li Shuliang
Hot and cold changes in the weather, strong winds, and dryness can make people feel uncomfortable. Sometimes they feel pain and dryness, and sometimes they don’t want to cough or cough. At this time, many people think of using Chinese medicine to soak in water to relieve pharyngeal discomfort. Some chronic pharyngitis patients do so for a long time.
However, in fact, in the view of traditional Chinese medicine, throat discomfort and chronic pharyngitis are not caused by a single cause, among which there are cold and heat, and the pathogenesis is complicated and changeable. The taste of Chinese medicine is different and it is not suitable for all people. Dr. Fu Xuezhong, deputy director of the Department of Dermatology at Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, analyzes our common Chinese herbal medicines to help you find the most suitable Qingyan tea.
Fat sea, relieve lung hyperactivity and dumbness
Fat sea, cold, sweet, return to the lungs, large intestine. With heat and lungs, pharynx open, laxative and other effects. It is usually used to treat diseases such as feverishness and dumbness of the lungs, dry cough without sputum, dry throat pain, and headaches. Therefore, for hoarseness and throat discomfort caused by getting angry and lung heat, it is suitable to be relieved with fat sea foam and brewing with appropriate amount of honey. The cough, sore throat, etc. caused by the cold-cold flu are not suitable for relieving with the fat sea, and there is no therapeutic effect for the excessive sound caused by tobacco and alcohol, hoarseness and throat discomfort. On the contrary, due to the cold and cool nature of the fat sea, people with poor spleen and stomach are prone to diarrhea for a long time.
Fat sea is not suitable for long-term use. When soaking in water, it should not exceed 3 pieces at a time. Too much poisoning is easy. Wind and heat caused by dry throat pain, dry cough without sputum, hoarseness, you can use fat sea 3 and 3 grams of licorice soaked with water.
Ophiopogon alleviates dryness and dryness
Ophiopogon japonicus is the root of the Liriope plant Ophiopogon japonicus, its slightly cold, sweet, slightly bitter, return to the heart, lungs, stomach, there Yangyin Sheng Jin, lungs Qingxin role. It is commonly used for the treatment of dryness and dryness, cough, phlegm, sore throat, thirst, thirst, internal heat, diabetes, upset, insomnia, intestinal dryness and constipation. If the pharyngeal discomfort, syndrome differentiation for the dryness of the person, that is, the performance of the throat itch, dry mouth, sore throat, dry tongue, less Tianjin, dry cough, no sputum, greasy tongue coating and other symptoms, available oats soaked in water for treatment.
Ophiopogon japonicus is cold, and some diabetic patients have both qi and yin deficiency. Therefore, when drinking Ophiopogon japonicus, it can be used with a little Codonopsis pilosula, so that it can better play the role of qi. Deficiency of the spleen and stomach, long-term diarrhea, greasy tongue, and indigestion are best not to take, so as not to affect health. Ophiopogon is not suitable for long-term use, especially if it is not under the guidance of a doctor. Otherwise, it may cause phlegm and dampness, and the effect is counter-productive. As a routine health care, you can use about 2 grams of water every time.
Luo Han Guo relieves constipation in sore throat
Luo Han Guo is a dried fruit of the cucurbitaceae Mangosteen, which is cool, sweet, and belongs to the lungs and the large intestine. With heat and lungs, pharynx open, laxative and other effects. Clinically, it is usually used for the treatment of hyperthermic dry cough, whooping cough and heat-sickness are thirsty, sore throat aphonia, intestinal dry constipation and other illnesses. Syndrome is lung and stomach real heat, that is, the performance of throat pain associated with fecal barriers, with Luo Han Guo bubble water treatment, the effect is very good.
Mangosteen is too sweet, easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, not long-term use. If you drank your dried Luo Han Guo, you will get angry when you drink too much. Therefore, it is not suitable for coughing patients with wind-heat. When people with cold body use Luo Han Guo, put one or two slices of ginger to cook it together, which can neutralize the coldness of Luo Han Guo. However, for extremely sensitive and cold people, drinking mangosteen water is not recommended.
Lo Han Guo is cool, soaking in water, do not put too much, under normal circumstances, 500 ml of water into 1/4 Luo Han Guo can. For people with low immunity, such as children and the elderly, or when they are only used for routine health care, they may be reduced to 1/5 or 1/10, and those with more severe throat discomfort may be increased to half or one, as appropriate, for 2 weeks.
Honeysuckle alleviates wind and heat
Honeysuckle is cold, sweet, and belongs to the lungs, heart and stomach. Can clear away heat and detoxify, cool wind and heat. It can not only heat, but also to express heat, often used in carbuncle swollen sores, throat, erysipelas, blood poisoning, wind-heat cold, fever, fever, so that when the beginning of the wind or fever Hot headaches, upset irritability, dizzy tongue, dry mouth, etc. have a certain effect. Under normal circumstances, take 20 grams of honeysuckle, Jianshui tea or tea, can treat sore throat, prevent upper respiratory tract infection.
Due to its cold nature, honeysuckle is only suitable for peace constitution or internal heat constitution to take, but not for the spleen and stomach Deficiency, manifested as often abdominal pain, diarrhea, cold abdomen, cold hands and feet, excessive drinking honeysuckle water, or cold body physique There will be side effects when taking it. Long-term use can easily lead to deficiency of the spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, and even abdominal pain and diarrhea. Therefore, it is advisable for adults to take less than 400 milliliters a day. Children should take no more than 180 milliliters a day. Continuous use should not exceed one week. In addition, honeysuckle brewing 2 to 3 times, after overnight, should not drink.
The above drugs all have the effects of detoxification, detoxification, and pharynx. However, these drugs are mostly substances with bitter cold, and the degree of bitter cold is not the same. Patients with syndrome differentiation who are really hot can use it to achieve good results, but people with spleen-and-stomach deficiency use it. After that, there will be diarrhea and other side effects. Therefore, it is recommended that patients with severe throat symptoms should choose drugs after they have been diagnosed with physical illnesses and diseases through regular hospitals.
Cooking is safer than soaking
In the treatment of chronic pharyngitis, the chief physician of the Department of Otolaryngology at the Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences recommends that it is better to use the method of suffering, rather than soaking water. Because modern medicines are subject to pollution during production, processing, or transportation, for example, fat seas are mostly imported from abroad. If they are stored for a long time, mildew will appear and they will be easily contaminated by aflatoxin. Aspergillin can affect your health. There are also some drugs used in the drying process of sulfur fumigation, residual sulphides can cause discomfort or even disease. Therefore, if you need to use these drugs for simple treatment, you can take the method of Jianshui for tea, which can achieve good results and can also avoid side effects. â–² (Reporter Lei Hao)
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