This kind of feeling is very strange. Although I can obviously feel the strangeness in my throat, I just feel that there is not really something stuck there, and eating and talking are not affected. What the hell is going on here?
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this is because the mood is uncomfortable, which makes the liver and qi stagnate, phlegm and qi tangled, and stays in the throat.
Most of the patients with this disease are women, and they are in a bad mood. They are stuffy in their hearts, blocked by qi, and tied up in their throats. Moreover, the onset of this disease is highly consistent with the fluctuation of mood. When the mood is good, everything is normal. As long as the mood is bad, the condition suddenly worsens.
Zhang Zhongjing has a prescription for this disease in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber, which is called Banxia Houpu Decoction.
The medicine composition: Pinellia ternata, Magnolia Officinalis, Poria, Perillae Caulis, Perillae Folium, Fried Rhizoma Cyperi, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae and Ginger.
This prescription is not simple, it can promote qi circulation, disperse stagnation, reduce adverse flow and eliminate phlegm, and it is mainly used for treating if there is something blocked in the pharynx, which can't be spit out and swallowed.
It is suitable for patients with emotional disorder, stagnation of liver qi, disorder of lung and stomach, accumulation of body fluid as phlegm and mutual condensation of qi in throat. Do you think this description is very similar to thyroid nodules? In fact, this prescription can also be used to treat thyroid nodules.
Specifically, the medication in the prescription:
Pinellia ternata, which I wrote in an article earlier, has the function of resolving phlegm, dredging and dispersing, and eliminating accumulation and stagnation. I won't talk about it here.
Magnolia officinalis is bitter, pungent and warm in nature, and enters spleen, stomach, lung and large intestine meridians.
It has the effects of eliminating dampness, eliminating phlegm, lowering qi and eliminating fullness. It is mainly used for dampness and stagnation of qi to hurt middle qi, phlegm and asthma and cough.
"Hejiju Prescription": For the treatment of phlegm retention, lung qi failure, cough and chest distress, Magnolia officinalis can eliminate dampness and phlegm, lower the breath and relieve asthma. It is often used equally with Perilla, Chenpi and Pinellia.
Poria cocos is mainly used here for diuresis and dampness, strengthening the spleen and calming the heart.
Both perilla stem and perilla leaf are part of perilla frutescens. Let's learn more about them.
The medicinal parts of perilla are mainly stems, leaves and seeds.
Leaves are diaphoretic, antitussive and aromatic diuretics, which have analgesic, sedative and detoxicating effects, and can be used for treating common cold.
Terrier has the function of calming qi and preventing miscarriage;
Zi can relieve cough, eliminate phlegm, relieve asthma and disperse mental dullness.
Leaves are also edible, and cooking with meat can increase the flavor of the latter. The oil squeezed from seeds, named perilla oil, is edible and has antiseptic effect for industrial use.
Cyperus rotundus is pungent, slightly bitter, slightly sweet, flat, and enters liver, spleen and triple energizer meridians.
It has the effects of soothing liver, relieving depression, regulating qi, regulating menstruation and relieving pain.
Mainly used for liver depression and qi stagnation, chest pain, hernia pain, breast pain, spleen and stomach qi stagnation, abdominal distension and pain, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea.
There is a famous prescription "Yueju Pill" in which there is the figure of Rhizoma Cyperi to solve the depression: Rhizoma Atractylodis, Rhizoma Cyperi, Fu Xiong, Divine Comedy and Gardenia are equally divided. For the end, water pills are as big as mung beans. Take one hundred pills each time.
Dried tangerine peel is bitter and pungent, warm in nature, and enters lung and spleen meridians. Has the effects of regulating qi, invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm.
Ginger is pungent, slightly warm, and enters lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold, stopping vomiting, warming lung, relieving cough and detoxifying. We have said the specific usage many times before, so I won't say much here.
Finally, to sum up briefly, this prescription has the effects of promoting qi circulation, dispersing stagnation, lowering adverse flow and resolving phlegm. The specific clinical application can be added or subtracted according to the patient's condition. Here I briefly list several usages for your reference:
For patients with sore throat, Fructus Arctii and Radix Sophorae Tonkinensis are added.
If sputum in the pharynx is difficult to cough up, add pollen.
For those with itchy throat, add mustard spike and dark plum.
For patients with sore throat and hoarseness, Fructus Canarii Immaturus, Radix Scrophulariae, and Mume Butterfly are added; If the course of disease is long and the sputum is gelatinous, Radix Paeoniae Rubra and pumice are added.
If other drugs fail, Fritillaria thunbergii, Mume Fructus, Cimicifuga Rhizoma, Radix Clematidis, Prunellae Spica and Ranunculus ternatus are added.