In the autumn, the tonsils are particularly prone to inflammation, leading to swelling and hoarseness of the throat. This is a common disease in autumn. Many people suffer from tonsillar swelling. So, what should you do when tonsils swell? Let's take a look at the symptoms of tonsillitis.
How to reduce tonsillar swelling
Tonsillar swelling is often caused by excessive heat in the body, which can cause throat inflammation and subsequently tonsillar swelling. What should you do when you experience this? Let's take a look at how to relieve tonsillar inflammation and swelling.
1. Powdered Forsythia
Take an appropriate amount of powdered Forsythia and honey. Grind the Forsythia into a powder, take 6 grams each time, dissolve in warm water, and add honey. Take it twice a day. Forsythia can clear heat, detoxify, cool the blood, and reduce swelling. It is suitable for relieving throat discomfort caused by tonsillar inflammation, and it can also clear heat, detoxify, and reduce swelling.
2. Xuan Shen Er Tea Detoxification Soup
Take 10 grams of Xuan Shen, 25 grams of gypsum, 15 grams of Isatis root, and 5 grams of er cha. First, wrap the er cha tightly with gauze and put it in a pot with the other ingredients. Boil it twice, filter out the residue, and combine the liquid. Then boil for 10 minutes. When the liquid becomes thick (about 50 milliliters), take it twice a day, one dose per day. This soup can cool the blood, detoxify, clear the throat, and is suitable for people with tonsillar inflammation and swelling.
3. Honeysuckle Decoction
Take 30 grams of honeysuckle, 15 grams of radix sophorae flavescentis, and 6 grams of licorice. Boil the three herbs with water, take it twice a day, one dose per day. Honeysuckle can dispel wind-heat, clear heat, cool the blood, and is suitable for various febrile diseases. It has a good effect on treating tonsillar inflammation and swelling.
4. Dandelion and Olive Porridge
Take 15 grams of dandelion, 100 grams of radish, and 50 grams each of olives and glutinous rice. Crush the dandelion, olives, and radish together, wrap them in gauze, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer for about 20 minutes. After removing the residue, cook the cleaned glutinous rice with the liquid to make porridge. This porridge has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, reducing swelling, and relieving pain. It has a good therapeutic effect on tonsillar inflammation and swelling.
5. Chicken Neijing Powder
Take 96 grams of chicken neijing, 2 grams each of indigo naturalis and borneol. Grind the above herbs into a fine powder and store it in a bottle. Take a pea-sized amount of the powder, blow it on both sides of the throat, 4-6 times a day, to treat tonsillar swelling and inflammation.
6. Xia Ku Cao Soup
When a person is healthy, especially children, drinking a bowl of Xia Ku Cao soup can effectively prevent tonsillar inflammation and reduce swelling.
Method: Take one chicken egg and five grams of Xia Ku Cao. Put them in a pot with two bowls of water and cook until one bowl remains. Then let the child eat the egg and drink the medicinal soup. Only one dose is needed to prevent tonsillar inflammation for a lifetime.
7. Bean Root Soup
Take 9 grams of red peony, 9 grams of sophora root, 9 grams of Patrinia, 9 grams of moutan bark, 9 grams of roasted silkworm, 9 grams of honeysuckle, 3 grams of platycodon, 3 grams of licorice, 9 grams of scutellaria baicalensis, 9 grams of anemarrhena, 9 grams of burdock fruit, and 9 grams of chrysanthemum. Boil the herbs to make a potion, and take it twice a day. It can clear heat, detoxify, and reduce swelling.
