Hello everyone, I'm Zhao Shuping.
Recently received a private message from a die-hard fan:
Director Zhao, I have looked for your articles and videos, I see that you said in the consultation video that you don't care about adenoid hypertrophy, and you will shrink when you reach age, which means that this disease does not need to be treated? Then in the articles you write every day, why do you still let your children drink medicine?
This is a complete misunderstanding, and I am used to sitting in the hospital, and I didn't say it clearly enough when I saw the doctor, so I will explain this problem to you in detail today.
Adenoid hypertrophy does shrink by age on its own, so we don't need to pay too much attention to it.
Why?
Because as long as we adjust the child's physique, the child will be less sick, and the adenoids will no longer be stimulated repeatedly, we will be able to pass this special period of development safely.
In the outpatient clinic, I saw many children who were afflicted by adenoid hypertrophy, and in terms of the root cause of the disease, the largest base was lung and spleen qi deficiency.
In addition to common symptoms such as nasal congestion, white nasal discharge, coughing up sticky phlegm, and snoring during sleep, such children will also be accompanied by paleness, fatigue, loss of appetite, poor physical fitness, love for colds, abdominal distension and other manifestations of spleen deficiency.
Generally, the treatment focuses on strengthening the spleen and lungs, and one of the medicines I commonly use in clinical practice is tangerine peel.
tangerine peel regulates qi and regulates stomach inversion; According to the actual situation of the child, it is combined with some drugs that invigorate qi and strengthen the spleen and drugs that dry and damp and dissolve phlegm, which can be supplemented and excreted. Then add the drug to dissolve phlegm and disperse the condensation as appropriate, so that the principle of treating both the symptoms and the root cause is used, and the adenoids will naturally be comfortable.
For example, this child, since he went to kindergarten, his physical fitness has suddenly deteriorated, he has repeated colds and coughs, first allergic rhinitis was detected, and a year later adenoids were found to be hypertrophied, and the medicine was also taken, but the child was still breathing and snoring with his mouth open.
The child's mother said that the child has not eaten well, and he is constipated every once in a while, and his nasal congestion and runny nose are especially obvious in the morning.
I saw that the child's lower eye bags were blue and dark, the tonsils were also red and swollen, and the tongue was red and greasy, and I judged that the crux of the problem was the spleen and lungs.
Tangerine peel, forsythia, citrus aurantium, honeysuckle, prunella vulgaris, Zhejiang fritillary, Jiao Liushenqu, fried sulforaphane seed, bellflower, shoot dry, nepeta mustard, fried burdock, skullcap, red peony, Xinyi, reed root, licorice and other syndrome differentiation plus and subtraction.
After 14 doses of medicine, nasal congestion and snoring have been greatly relieved. Follow-up adjustment of the prescription, add some medicine to adjust the physique, consolidate the effect, and reduce recurrence.
Dietary therapy for mild symptoms
If your child's symptoms are mild, dietary therapy may be tried.
With, boiled water to drink, especially suitable for children mixed with cold and heat.
If the child has a hot and dry constitution and yellow phlegm, use 1 pear. If the child is afraid of cold, loose stools, and has white phlegm, use less pears, use half or one-third, and add more tangerine peel. If the child mainly accumulates food, the amount of hawthorn can be more, and the child with more stomach acid uses burnt hawthorn.
Use a ratio of 1:1 (the specific dosage needs to be distinguished), bake with fine powder, and then add honey to make balls.
This is Mr. Zhang Xichun's prescription, which is specially used to strengthen the spleen and stomach and dissolve phlegm and dampness, atractylodes is used to strengthen the spleen, chicken inner gold is used to dredge depression, one is to correct and one to drive away evil spirits, and it is very clever to improve the problem of adenoid hypertrophy, which is very suitable.
(Non-professional readers should learn from and apply the prescriptions mentioned in this article under the guidance of TCM physicians, and do not try them blindly.) ）
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