Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment for Oral Herpes in Infants

In fact, some people who have just become parents are very unfamiliar with taking care of their children. After all, it is their first time. If their children have oral herpes, they will be a little anxious. Let us now learn about the traditional Chinese medicine treatment of oral herpes in infants.

Traditional Chinese Medicine:

According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, the cause of this disease is exogenous damp-heat and epidemic toxins. When damp-heat damages the lungs and spleen, it causes disharmony of the lung defense system or accumulation of toxic pathogens in the spleen, causing dysfunction of the spleen's function of governing the limbs and opening the mouth, resulting in the above-mentioned clinical features, accompanied by fever, runny nose, slight cough, and other symptoms similar to a summer cold, or drooling, refusal to eat, and irritability. Traditional Chinese medicine is very effective in treating this disease. It can not only eliminate and relieve symptoms, but also shorten the course of the disease. In the early and middle stages of the disease, the treatment of clearing heat and detoxifying, removing dampness and cooling blood is generally used. Commonly used medicines include honeysuckle, forsythia, scutellaria, gardenia, raw coix seed, burdock seed, cicada shell, lithospermum, reed root, bamboo leaf, gypsum, coptis, rush, Liuyi powder, etc.; in the late stage of the disease, if symptoms such as hot hands and feet, poor appetite, irritability and restlessness are seen, you can add raw rehmannia, ophiopogon, white mulberry, polygonatum and other yin-nourishing and heat-clearing products.

"Oral herpes" is a common infectious disease in children, and Western medicine has no ideal specific medicine yet. The treatment methods are based on clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and removing dampness, regulating the spleen and facilitating digestion, and nourishing yin and promoting body fluid. The long-term effective empirical powders are compared and supplemented, and finally three powders are selected for combined use. After clinical application in more than 2,000 children, it achieved gratifying results, including rapid symptom relief, significantly shortened course of disease, and high cure rate.

Oral herpes in children is a newly discovered rash-causing infectious disease in the 1980s. It usually occurs in children under 5 years old, especially infants and young children. It is prone to spread on a large scale in summer and autumn. The main clinical manifestations of this disease are herpes or ulcers on the hands, feet, and oral mucosa. The Department of Pediatrics of Qiqihar Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital is now a national key specialty and the Pediatric Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Heilongjiang Province. Although oral herpes in children has never been recorded in traditional Chinese medicine books, it should be classified as a febrile disease based on syndrome differentiation. The pathogenesis is that the wind-heat virus is accumulated in the lungs, heart, spleen, and stomach, causing the evaporation of Qi and Ying, and the pathogenic factors are between Wei Qi and Ying. Therefore, the general principle of treatment should be to eliminate heat, detoxify, regulate the spleen and nourish yin.

The above article has introduced in detail some traditional Chinese medicine treatments for infant oral herpes. I believe that everyone has a relatively preliminary understanding. So in daily life, if your child is in the same situation, it is best to use traditional Chinese medicine treatments.