What is the effect of Luo Han Guo in treating chronic pharyngitis?

Chronic pharyngitis is a common laryngeal disease in life, which usually occurs in smokers. Chronic pharyngitis makes people always feel that there is a foreign body in the throat, which cannot be coughed out or swallowed. So how should chronic pharyngitis be treated?

Can Luo Han Guo cure chronic pharyngitis?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the cause of chronic pharyngitis is complex. Although the disease is located in the throat, it is closely related to dysfunction of the lungs, stomach, and kidneys, and involves multiple pathogenic factors such as qi, fire, phlegm, dampness, and blood stasis. Therefore, both the symptoms and the root cause should be taken into account; regulating the internal organs is the root cause, and alleviating symptoms is the symptomatic treatment. In clinical practice, some traditional Chinese medicines are often used to clear away heat, detoxify, moisten the lungs and relieve sore throat, and Luo Han Guo is one of them.

Modern medicine has proven that monk fruit has significant therapeutic effects on diseases such as bronchitis and hypertension, and can also prevent and treat coronary heart disease, vascular sclerosis, and obesity. It has high nutritional value and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, cooling blood and relaxing bones, clearing the lungs and moistening the intestines, and promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It can treat acute and chronic tracheitis, pharyngitis, bronchial asthma, whooping cough, stomach heat, constipation, acute tonsillitis, etc., and is also suitable for diabetic patients.

1. It is used for cough due to lung heat, dryness of the lungs and whooping cough. It can be taken orally as a decoction alone, or it can be taken together with Scutellaria baicalensis, Fritillaria thunbergii, Trichosanthes kirilowii or dried persimmon as a decoction.

2. For lymph tuberculosis, it can be combined with Fritillaria thunbergii, Prunella vulgaris, Trillium gracile, etc. to clear away heat and resolve phlegm, detoxify and disperse nodules.

3. For pharyngitis and tonsillitis, you can drink the decoction of Luo Han Guo alone, or brew it with boiling water instead of tea. It has the effect of moisturizing the throat and protecting the vocal cords.

4. For thirst caused by loss of body fluid, you can cut the monk fruit in half and brew it with boiling water as tea, which has the effect of promoting body fluid and quenching thirst.

5. For constipation caused by dry intestines, for mild cases, you can use this product alone to make a decoction or brew it with boiling water for drinking. For severe cases, you can boil a decoction together with hemp seeds and Prunus mume seeds.

Therefore, monk fruit can cure chronic pharyngitis. People with chronic pharyngitis may wish to drink more monk fruit tea. So let’s take a look at how to make monk fruit tea.

How to make monk fruit tea

Method 1

Crush the monk fruit into pieces and put it in a pot with cold water. After the water boils, simmer for more than 20 minutes. Pour out the boiled monk fruit water. Luo Han Guo can be boiled again with cold water and can be used three times. Pour the three times of water together and drink it as tea, either hot or cold. The monk fruit must be broken into pieces. The boiling time should be no less than 20 minutes so that the medicinal effect of monk fruit can be exerted.

Method 2

First, break the selected monk fruit into several portions. The amount depends on the size of the cup or kettle. Too little will make the taste bland, and too much will make the taste too sweet. After making the above preparations, put the monk fruit into a cup or kettle, pour boiling water into it, and you can drink it after a few minutes. If used to treat pharyngitis, you can add some raw licorice and Sterculia lychnophora to it.

Generally speaking, the side effects of monk fruit are very small, and only a very small number of people cannot drink monk fruit tea. For example, people with cold constitution are not recommended to drink monk fruit tea. If pharyngitis is really uncomfortable, you can try drinking a small amount of monk fruit water without causing excessive reaction of the body, so that the pharyngitis can slowly recover.