Do you often have the following experiences?
1, habitual dry cough clears throat?
2. The throat often has itching, burning, tingling and other symptoms?
Modern medical knowledge
Sore throat can be caused by external and internal factors.
1. External factors: inhalation allergy, including seasonal allergens and perennial allergens, food allergens, drugs, chemical irritants in the working environment, etc. Causing sore throat.
2. Internal cause: decreased resistance and infiltration of virus and bacteria. Acid regurgitation caused by diseases such as esophagus and stomach, and acid substances of reflux repeatedly stimulate the throat mucosa, which will induce throat discomfort.
Traditional Chinese medicine knowledge
The pharynx is the gateway to the stomach, and the throat is the gateway to the lungs. Exogenous pathogens entering the lung are easy to hurt the throat, while internal injuries such as improper diet are easy to hurt the throat.
1, common cold gallops, wind and heat attack, and accumulated heat in lung meridian. The throat is the portal of the lung and stomach, belonging to the lung system, and the throat bears the brunt. This is the common exogenous sore throat.
2, usually eat spicy, fat products, so that the lung and stomach accumulate heat, and then attacked by external evils, leading to the accumulation of heat in the lung and stomach caused by external evils, internal and external heat and poison are intertwined, qi and blood stagnate, and heat and poison choke the throat.
3. Inflammation caused by deficiency of kidney yin leads to hyperactivity of kidney yang, while the pathology of fire deficiency often shows symptoms of hyperactivity of yin deficiency, such as sore throat, restlessness, red tongue, fever in hands and feet, and sores on mouth and tongue.
Dr. Chen: And the recurrent throat discomfort of modern people.
Mostly caused by virtual fire.
First, because the diet is spicy and greasy, it is easy to ignite the internal fire in the body, which will smoke the throat and easily damage the body fluid, so that the body fluid can not nourish the throat, resulting in dry, itchy and painful throat;
Second, because of staying up late, sedentary and other reasons, it will lead to yin deficiency and fire, and the throat will not be nourished by body fluids. Or smoking and drinking will stimulate the pharyngeal mucosa.
Dr. Chen recommended several acupoints for everyone.
Daily massage can relieve throat discomfort.
First, Tiantu point
location
Located in the neck
Current midline
Center of suprasternal fossa
Between the left and right sternocleidomastoid muscles
efficacy
Broaden the chest, regulate qi, dredge airway, resolve phlegm and spread lung.
operate
Press acupoints alternately with the left and right index fingers.
3-5 minutes each time.
Taking local acid swelling as the degree
Second, Taiyuan Point
location
Located in the anterior carpal region
Between styloid process of radius and scaphoid
Ulnar depression of abductor pollicis longus tendon
efficacy
Blood circulation, pulse dredging, lung dispersing, asthma relieving, and stomach heat clearing.
Taiyuan point, the original point of lung meridian, is called the pulse meeting of Bahui point.
The yin of the human body is the blood in the veins.
The body fluid is outside the pulse, so it can nourish yin, moisten dryness and relieve cough.
operate
Put your thumb on the acupoint.
The other four fingers are fixed on the back of the hand.
Gently press and rub your thumb.
3-5 minutes each time.
Take the feeling of acid swelling as the degree.
Third, according to the sea point
location
Ankle, below the tip of the medial malleolus 1 inch, at the edge of the lower edge of the medial malleolus.
efficacy
1, mental and psychological diseases such as epilepsy and insomnia;
2, dry throat, sore throat, red eyes, swelling and pain.
3, dysuria, frequent urination;
4. Gynecological diseases such as irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, red and white discharge;
5, lower limb paralysis. Zhao Hai point is one of the points where the kidney meridian and eight veins of Foot Shaoyin meet, and it has the functions of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney and harmonizing yin and yang. It passes through the Yinqiao pulse with eight strange meridians and connects the throat through Yinqiao, and is compatible with Taiyuan, which can nourish yin, moisten dryness and relieve cough.
operate
Put your thumb on the acupoint and fix the other four fingers on the instep.
Gently press and rub your thumb.
3-5 minutes each time, depending on the degree of pain.
Fourth, the liquid gate point.
location
On the back of the hand, between the fourth and fifth fingers.
Red and white pulp behind the edge of the webbed finger.
efficacy
1, headache, red eyes, deafness, tinnitus, laryngitis and other head and facial diseases;
2, fever, malaria;
3, arm pain. Liquid gate belongs to Xing point on Sanjiao Meridian, which can clear away heat and nourish yin, and is an important point for treating heat syndrome. The acupoints of the triple energizer meridian are water-based in five elements, which can nourish the yin fluid of the upper, middle and lower triple energizers.
operate
Put the thumb on the acupoint and fix the other four fingers on the little finger.
Gently press and rub your thumb.
3-5 minutes each time, depending on the degree of pain.
It is recommended to keep quiet when pressing the above points.
Feel the presence of body fluids in the mouth.
Swallow into the stomach
Only in this way can the effect be more remarkable.
1, rinse your mouth frequently and keep your throat clean;
2. Use the voice reasonably, keep the voice normal, and don't speak loudly;
3. Drink plenty of water, keep your throat moist and avoid irritating drinks;
4, light diet, less irritating, fried and other hard and dry foods, control tobacco and alcohol;
5. Advocate a regular life, combine work and rest to prevent colds;
6. Keep the indoor air circulating and moist, avoid the stimulation of all kinds of dust and harmful gases, and wear protective measures such as masks when necessary to stay away from the harmful environment.