Throat inflammation for a month

Throat inflammation is a common disease in normal times. Most of the time, throat inflammation is caused by pharyngitis, especially when the throat inflammation has not improved for a month. In this case, it is mostly pharyngitis. When pharyngitis occurs, the course of the disease is relatively long, and it is easy to relapse. It is not easy to treat. If you want to relieve pharyngitis, you must pay more attention to a light diet and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits.

Diet for patients with chronic pharyngitis

1. Try to eat more fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin C, such as apples, oranges, tomatoes, etc.

2. Pay attention to drinking plenty of water, because water can help detoxify the body and keep all parts of the body running smoothly.

3. You can maintain your throat through diet. For example, making tea with three Chinese medicinal herbs: honeysuckle, wild chrysanthemum and puffed sea is a very good throat moisturizer. In addition, products such as throat lozenges and loquat paste can also have a good auxiliary therapeutic effect.

Dietary treatment for chronic pharyngitis (the following information is for reference only, please consult a doctor for details)

1. Throat-relieving tea: 3-5 grams each of Shuanghua, Ophiopogon japonicus, Oroxylum butterfly, Sterculia lychnophora, and raw licorice. Brew with boiling water and take frequently. Qingyan Drink: 50 grams each of black plum meat, raw licorice, Adenophora Root, Ophiopogon japonicus, Platycodon grandiflorum, and Radix Rehmanniae, mash and mix evenly, take 3 times a day, about 15 grams each time, and drink with boiling water.

2. Mung bean and kelp soup

Ingredients: 100 grams of mung beans, 100 grams of kelp, and a little white sugar.

Preparation method: Put mung beans and kelp (shredded) in a pot, add water and cook until soft, then add sugar to taste and drink it as tea every day.

Watermelon juice: Cut the watermelon and take the juice, and drink it as tea frequently. It can clear away heat and relieve restlessness, nourish yin and moisten dryness, so it is very suitable to eat it regularly.

3. Qinglong Baihu Decoction

Ingredients: 5 green fruits and 1 radish. Preparation method: Slice the radish and cook it with green fruit for 30 minutes, and use the juice as tea. Efficacy: Clears away heat and purges fire, detoxifies and relieves sore throat, promotes salivation and aids digestion. Used for dry cough and sore throat in autumn.

4. Tremella and Tomato Soup

Ingredients: 50g Tremella (15g wild Tremella), 100g tomatoes, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Preparation method: First soak the white fungus in water and wash it, then put it into a casserole and boil it until thick and soft. Then wash the tomatoes, peel and seed them, chop and mash them, put them into the white fungus soup and boil it, add appropriate amount of rock sugar for seasoning. Efficacy: Tremella nourishes yin and moistens the lungs, tomatoes clear away heat and detoxify, promote salivation and relieve throat pain, and adding rock sugar makes it into a soup that is sweet and sour and rich in nutrition. This prescription has a conditioning and therapeutic effect on patients with chronic tonsillitis, chronic pharyngitis, and long-term dry cough due to yin deficiency and excessive fire.

5. Steamed duck with Adenophora odoratum

Ingredients: one old duck, 50g Polygonatum odoratum, 50g Adenophora chinensis, and appropriate amounts of ginger, pepper, rice wine, and salt. Preparation method: Kill the old duck, remove the hair and internal organs, pick out impurities from Polygonatum odoratum and Glehnia littoralis, wash them and set aside. Put the old duck, Polygonatum odoratum and Adenophora odoratum into the pot, add appropriate amounts of water, ginger, pepper, rice wine and salt, and simmer over low heat for two hours. Features: The duck meat is fragrant, delicious and slightly bitter. Efficacy: Nourishes yin and clears heat, relieves sore throat, moistens intestines and promotes bowel movements.

6. Longevity Tremella Soup

Ingredients: 15g dried white fungus, 15g wolfberry, 15g longan meat, 150g rock sugar. Preparation method: Soak the white fungus in warm water, wash off the mud and sand, remove the black roots, blanch it in boiling water, then soak it in clean water and steam it. Wash wolfberries, steam them in a small bowl, and dice longan flesh. Bring 1500g of water to a boil. Add rock sugar, and after it melts, add white fungus, wolfberry and longan meat. Boil for a while and serve in a bowl. Features: Tremella is soft and sticky, and the soup is sweet and sour. Effect: Nourishes the kidneys and strengthens the body, nourishes yin and moistens the throat.

Medicinal Tea Recipe

【Lo Han Guo Tea】

1 monk fruit. Chop the monk fruit into pieces, brew it with boiling water for 10 minutes, and drink it at any time. Take 1 to 2 times a day, 1 piece each time. Functions: Clears the lungs, eliminates phlegm, quenches thirst and moistens the throat. It is mainly used to treat chronic pharyngitis, dry and uncomfortable throat caused by insufficient lung yin and accumulation of phlegm and heat, sore throat and loss of voice, or cough and dry mouth. "Food Chinese Medicine and Prescriptions" states: "Actresses, teachers, broadcasters and others who need to protect their vocal organs often chop up monk fruit and soak it in water to drink instead of tea, which is effective."

【Olive Tea】

Take two olives and 1g of green tea. Cut the olives with pits into two halves, put them into a cup with green tea, pour in boiling water, cover and simmer for 5 minutes before drinking. Suitable for patients with chronic pharyngitis and foreign body sensation in the throat.

【Sea Reed Tea】

5 pieces of Sterculia lychnophora, 12g of Rehmannia glutinosa, 30g of crystal sugar, and appropriate amount of tea. Put the above medicines in a thermos, brew half a bottle with boiling water, cover and simmer for about 15 minutes, and drink it frequently as a substitute for tea. Depending on the patient's drinking volume, take 2 to 3 doses per day. It has the functions of clearing the lungs and relieving sore throat, nourishing yin and promoting body fluid. It is used for patients with chronic pharyngitis due to lung yin deficiency, such as hoarseness, itchy throat or dry cough when talking too much, dark red throat, thickened vocal cords, even incomplete glottis closure, nodules on the vocal cords, red tongue with little coating, etc. It is most suitable for patients with chronic laryngitis due to insufficient lung yin, false fire and excess, and dry and hard stools.