Patient's question:
[Symptoms: Acute purulent tonsillitis, high fever of 39.5°C for the first four daysOnset time and cause: August 8th, high fever due to a cold
Treatment: August 8th to August 9th, two days of intravenous drip to reduce fever, but the pus points on the tonsils did not completely disappear. Medication has been taken continuously. Antibiotics and heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs.
Help needed: Frequent tonsillitis, requiring frequent intravenous drips. Western medicine is too dependent. Are there any Chinese herbal formulas that can help eliminate the pus points on the tonsils?
Doctor's answer:
The treatment of pediatric tonsillitis primarily focuses on wind dispelling, heat clearing, throat soothing, and detoxification in the acute phase; while in the chronic phase, it mainly involves nourishing yin, reducing fire, strengthening the spleen, resolving phlegm, and dissipating blood stasis.For wind-cold invasion, the treatment should focus on dispelling wind and cold, reducing swelling, and soothing the throat. Wind dispelling, lung ventilating, and cold dispelling often use cinnamon twigs, roasted ephedra, and perilla leaves; for throat soothing and detoxification, asarum, polyporus, and raw licorice are commonly selected; for reducing stomach inversion and resolving phlegm, pinellia is chosen.
For damp-heat invasion, the treatment should focus on resolving dampness, detoxifying, soothing the throat, and reducing swelling. Resolving dampness and clearing heat uses white cardamom, patchouli, boldo, scoria, clouded poria, and mung beans; for clearing heat and detoxification, baical skullcap and Forsythia are used; for throat soothing and reducing swelling, fritillaria, asarum, burdock seeds, and cicada slough are used.
For wind-heat invasion, the treatment should focus on dispelling wind and clearing heat, reducing swelling, and soothing the throat. Wind dispelling and heat clearing often use honeysuckle and Forsythia; for clearing heat, ventilating the lungs, resolving phlegm, baical skullcap, Chinese fritillaria, mulberry bark, platycodon, and tragacanth are used; for throat soothing and detoxification, asarum and polyporus are used; for nourishing yin, cooling blood, and clearing heat, peony and scutellaria are used.