TCM treatment of allergic rhinitis

Allergic rhinitis, also known as allergic rhinitis, is a relatively common nasal disease, which is divided into two categories: perennial and seasonal. The incidence of allergic rhinitis in my country is higher than the world average, and has shown a rapid growth trend in recent years. Most of the patients are teenagers, but the disease can occur in people of any age. Allergic rhinitis seriously affects the daily quality of patients.

Many ancient Chinese medical books describe the symptoms of allergic rhinitis and the corresponding treatment methods. The treatment methods of allergic rhinitis in traditional Chinese medicine are mainly divided into external treatment, acupuncture and massage, and taking decoctions. External treatments include nasal drops, nasal blowing, zinc ion nasal injection, burning, nasal embankment sealing, and inferior turbinate submucosal injection.

Acupuncture and massage are divided into body acupuncture (mainly for deficiency-cold syndrome and stagnant heat syndrome), ear acupuncture (treatment by alternately burying needles in both ears), acupoint application (application of plasters on Dazhui, Shenshu, and Chanzhong points to treat winter diseases in summer), blister therapy (placing blister beetle powder on Yinchang and Neiguan points), pus removal method (using a brush dipped in a medicine made of toad, musk, cinnabar, etc. and applying it to Yintang acupoint), and massage.

The massage method mainly involves massaging the bridge of the nose, the Yingxiang point, the root of the nose, the cheeks and the neck, which can dredge the meridians and help clear the nasal passages. In addition, you can also take some empirical prescriptions, such as anti-allergic soup, lung clearing and desensitization soup, yang-boosting sneeze-treating soup, lung-warming and spleen-strengthening soup, nasal allergy soup, surface-consolidating and rhinorrhoea-stopping soup, wind-protecting and spleen-strengthening soup, etc. Most of these soups contain astragalus, white atractylodes and saposhnikovia, and must be prepared by a doctor.

For allergic rhinitis, the principle of traditional Chinese medicine treatment is to treat both the symptoms and the root cause, combining internal and external treatments, and not focusing on only one aspect of treatment. For allergic rhinitis, we should treat both symptoms and symptoms at the same time, and adjust the treatment according to the principles of syndrome differentiation and treatment of the corresponding disease. Treatment varies according to symptoms. In the early stage of allergic rhinitis, the main focus is on clearing away heat, while in the middle and late stages, the treatment method of replenishing Qi and warming Yang is adopted.