Original article, let's talk about the problem of pediatric "adenoids", classic Chinese medicine Ku Xilong.
Many parents find that after a child has been ill, very suddenly, find that the child's breathing sound is thick, sleep at night with the mouth open, and even snore, some loud, some small, parents are very nervous and anxious.
When I went to the hospital for examination, many people said that the child was "adenoid" hypertrophy, and if it was serious, it would have to be operated.
Adenoid hypertrophy is a pathological hyperplasia caused by repeated stimulation of inflammation of adenoids, followed by upper airway obstruction, oral breathing and other symptoms, especially aggravated at night, children will have sleep snoring, sleep disturbance and other reactions, sleep at night is not steady, often turn over, more obvious when lying on the back.
In severe cases, apnea can even occur, which can seriously interfere with normal ventilation and sleep.
Can an adenoid face be disfigured?
Long-term adenoid hypertrophy, some will appear so-called "adenoid face", typical adenoid face refers to the formation of facial development disorders due to adenoid hypertrophy.
As a result, the jaw lengthens, the lip muscles relax, the lower lip and teeth are turned out, and the base of the nasal wing is narrowed, which will affect the normal appearance to some extent.
For the description of the adenoid face, some parents described it as a bit similar to the appearance of "Nezha" in the cartoon:
So, how does Chinese medicine understand this?
First of all, Chinese medicine is prone to symptoms such as snoring because of the disease, and often classifies it as "snoring".
We know that the channels of communication between the human body and the outside world are skin pores and nine tips. Among them, there are seven tips on the head and face, which are two eyes, two noses, two ears, and one mouth.
The food we eat and the water we drink, the air we breathe, what we see, hear and smell depend on them, so they are called the seven "tips", like rural chimneys, which are important passages for entry and exit.
Chinese medicine says "nasal weather", which means that the nose is an important window for breathing, which communicates with the qi of heaven; We also say "pharyngeal qi", which means that everything in the length of the earth enters the body through the mouth and pharynx, which is also an important trick.
Further inside the mouth and nose, the pharynx and larynx, where the adenoids are located. Therefore, the Qi of Heaven will affect him, and the Qi of Earth will also affect him.
Let's still use this chimney as an example:
Under what circumstances will this chimney become blocked?
There are two situations:
First: a lot of leaves, dust, debris, etc. accumulate outside the chimney mouth, blocked for a long time, and the chimney will not be smooth.
This situation is equivalent to the child's external diseases, such as cough, cold, fever, cold, etc., there will be nasal congestion, throat is unfavorable, local stimulation, increased secretions.
Just like our hands, repeated labor, calluses will be grinded on the hands, the same throat repeated stimulation for a long time, will there be the so-called swelling and hypertrophy thickening?
Second: for a long time, the spleen and stomach organs are dysfunctional, repeated food accumulation, etc., our spleen and stomach are equivalent to our stove, food is cooked on the stove, and food is slowly digested and absorbed in the spleen and stomach.
And repeated food accumulation, the body will accumulate heat, will not be smooth, just like the firewood and grass in the stove is not fully burned, so a large amount of black smoke, black smoke deposited on the inner wall of the chimney, so the chimney will accumulate a thick layer of soot, more and more time, may also block the chimney, this situation is easy to understand.
More often, the two situations of repeated external sensation and spleen and stomach dysfunction will appear in a child at the same time, which is like this chimney, there are dust and weeds outside, and there is thick smoke and dirt inside.
So why do you have an adenoid face?
In fact, it is very simple, that is, "compensation", due to poor breathing, the caliber narrows, the child's air intake and air output are affected, the living will not be suffocated by urine, and the child's body will slowly adjust itself if the caliber narrows.
Then the body adjusts to the lengthening of the facial jaws, the relaxation of the lip muscles, and the valgus of the lower lip and teeth. It is the body self-adjusting to find a way to increase the amount of air intake and output.
This turned out to be a reaction that the child's body had to do out of "self-preservation", although this reaction was a bit costly.
Explain the cause of the disease, then the treatment is clear.
I heard a Western medicine friend say: You Chinese medicine, this adenoid, can not be cured, and it is not recommended that we do surgery! So do you have any good solutions?
There really is, but first of all, it is emphasized that freezing three feet is not a day's cold, adenoid hypertrophy is accumulated, and it does take time to adjust and treat, thinking that he will be completely cured in a particularly short time, and sometimes it really can't be done.
When treating, you must also look for methods from the classics.
The "Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon" says: Qingyang comes out of the upper body.
The seven tips of the head and face are in a high position, in fact, many times you can use the method of ascending and clearing the yang, and choose the drugs of ascending, dispersing, and dispersing, which is a big rule, suitable for those children who stay in the head and face trick for a long time.
"The intestines and stomach are smooth", in the internal and internal organs, especially need to pay attention to the lifting function of the spleen and stomach, clear qi to rise, turbid gas to fall, the turbid dirt inside the chimney can be slowly dissolved and new.
Very tricky situation
Clinically, there is indeed a category of children, which are particularly tricky: there are repeated food accumulation, stool blockage, and external evil incomprehension, long-term stay, children open their mouths to sleep at night, snoring as loud as an ox.
The snoring of children in this situation can be considered from the "accumulation of symptoms" treatment, and the process of dialectical treatment can be added to the triangular script zombie silkworm and so on.
Sometimes, when I am forced to have no way, I will combine the treatment, sometimes I use the chai hu formula plus hemp apricot gan tong, plus bulb, jujube diarrhea lung tong, plus thousand gold reed stem soup plus guizhi poria pills.
Although it sometimes works, I always feel that the prescription is too messy and unclassy. Even if it works, it is ashamed.
Later, by chance, I found a way and suddenly realized that this complex pathogenesis of children's adenoids can be used with ephedra cohosh soup!
There are clear yang out of the know-how: ephedra, cohosh, etc.;
Fuzheng: such as laurel branches, dried ginger, licorice, etc.;
There is heat to clear the heat of the internal organs: such as gypsum, skullcap, etc.;
There are nourishing yin and dry: such as jade bamboo, tiandong, zhimu and so on.
It does have the effect of solving the table and clearing the upper and lower temperatures, which is just suitable for this particularly tricky child.
In short, adenoid hypertrophy in children is preventable and treatable in the eyes of Chinese medicine, and surgery is not recommended as a last resort. The reason is that this thing, like the window screen of our window, can still resist some when encountering foreign mosquito dust. You quack him, and if there are problems in the future, you will drive straight in.