Chronic pharyngitis is a common condition that many people experience, and it can be very painful when it flares up. There are many home remedies for treating chronic pharyngitis, and today I will introduce a few of them, as well as the treatment methods and how to take care of chronic pharyngitis.
Home Remedy 1
Treating lung yin deficiency type chronic pharyngitis.
Prescription: Dry and itchy throat, burning pain, dry cough with little saliva, slightly red tongue with thin coating, thin and rapid pulse. The treatment should focus on nourishing yin and clearing the lungs. Use a modified nourishing yin and clearing the lungs decoction (15g Rehmannia root, 10g Ophiopogon root, 15g Scrophularia root, 10g White peony root, 10g Moutan bark, 10g Fritillaria cirrhosa, 6g Peppermint, 6g Cicada slough, 3g Licorice root).
Home Remedy 2
Treating kidney yin deficiency type chronic pharyngitis.
Prescription: Dry and painful throat, restlessness, soreness of the waist and knees, slightly red tongue with thin coating, thin and rapid pulse. The treatment should focus on nourishing kidney yin and clearing and descending deficient fire. Use a modified Zhibai Dihuang decoction (10g Anemarrhena rhizome, 6g Phellodendron bark, 15g Rehmannia root, 15g Rhizoma Dioscoreae, 10g Chinese wolfberry fruit, 10g Moutan bark, 10g Poria, 10g Alisma, 10g Ophiopogon root, 15g Scrophularia root).
Home Remedy 3
Treatment effect: For chronic pharyngitis, try holding a piece of raw garlic in your mouth for several months, and the pharyngitis can be completely cured.
Instructions: Use a piece of large purple-skinned single-headed garlic. At first, it will be spicy and make your eyes water, and it may cause pain in the oral mucosa. You can spit it out from time to time without biting into the smooth surface of the garlic. Once you get used to it, you can bite and hold it in your mouth. This method is also effective for toothache, hoarseness, and other oral problems.
When treating chronic pharyngitis, you can use home remedies, but the specific treatment methods should be based on individual circumstances. Generally, there are several treatment methods for chronic pharyngitis.
Treatment Methods for Chronic Pharyngitis
1. Treatment of the underlying cause
Eliminate adjacent lesions, treat systemic diseases, quit smoking and drinking, and avoid severe pharyngitis attacks. It is important to strengthen physical exercise and enhance physical fitness.
2. Local treatment
For thickening of the pharyngeal mucosa, you can use a 3% boric acid solution or 2%-5% silver nitrate for local application, as it has astringent and anti-inflammatory effects. For hypertrophy of the lymphoid follicles in the posterior pharyngeal wall and thickening of the pharyngeal side ridges, cryotherapy, laser treatment, or electrocautery can be used to remove the hypertrophic tissue. Using various types of throat lozenges, such as dexamethasone lozenges or bear gallbladder soothing throat lozenges, can also have a certain effect on improving local symptoms.
3. Systemic treatment
In the early stage, antiviral drugs can be used, such as acyclovir: intravenous drip of 5 mg/kg every 8 hours for at least 1 hour, continuously for 7 days; oral administration of 0.2 g each time, 5 times per hour, for a treatment course of 5-10 days. For patients with severe infection, high fever, and severe symptoms of pharyngitis, bed rest is required, along with symptomatic treatment and the use of antibiotics or anti-inflammatory drugs.
