What is below the throat?

What is the part below the throat? What causes the itching and pain there all the time? This situation is mostly caused by pharyngitis, which has a high incidence rate in daily life. Pharyngitis is actually not a serious disease. It mainly affects the patient's diet and speech. So let me tell you how to relieve the symptoms of pharyngitis.

1. Adjust your mindset

Due to the long course of chronic pharyngitis, patients often have negative emotions such as anxiety and depression, which are not conducive to recovery. Patients should take the initiative to learn about chronic pharyngitis, seek help from medical staff in a timely manner, and actively cooperate with treatment.

2. Keep your mouth clean and moist

Keeping the mouth clean and moist is conducive to the subsidence of pharyngeal inflammation, and can relieve symptoms of pharyngeal discomfort such as sore throat and dry throat. Patients with chronic pharyngitis should rinse their mouths with mouthwash in the morning, evening and after meals. Each gargling time should be slightly longer. When the throat is dry and uncomfortable, drink an appropriate amount of warm boiled water to moisten the mouth.

3. Eat a light diet

Excessive smoking, drinking and spicy food are common causes of chronic pharyngitis. Patients should eat a light diet, preferably liquid or semi-liquid diet, avoid spicy, fried, and hot foods, and quit smoking and drinking.

4. Keep your room clean and hygienic

Dust, harmful gases, etc. can induce or aggravate pharyngitis. Patients should keep their living and working environment clean and well ventilated. When going out, you should wear a mask to reduce the inhalation of dust and harmful gases.

5. Keep a regular schedule and do more physical exercise

Chronic pharyngitis often occurs when one is exposed to cold, fatigue, etc. This is because when the body is in these conditions, the body's immunity decreases, making it susceptible to invasion by pathogens and causing the disease. Therefore, patients should maintain a regular schedule, avoid staying up late, and do more physical exercise to strengthen their physical fitness and improve their body's resistance to disease.

Western medicine generally focuses on symptomatic treatment for chronic pharyngitis, but the condition is prone to recurrence. Chinese medicine, through syndrome differentiation and treatment, prepares raw rehmannia, ophiopogon and japonicus rice porridge with the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, clearing the throat and relieving sore throat to treat pharyngitis, with good results.

Raw Rehmannia and Ophiopogon japonicus rice porridge: 10-15 grams of raw rehmannia, 30-35 grams of shikui, 20-30 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, 20-30 grams of Adenophora australis, 20-40 grams of raw yam, 15-25 grams of Pseudostellaria heterophylla, 15-20 grams of lily, 60 grams of fresh reed root, 60-80 grams of coix seed, 50-60 grams of japonica rice, and 50-70 grams of white sugar. Add all the ingredients into the pot and boil for 1 hour, then add sugar and serve.