Two cases of nasal suffocation with the Tongqiao Huoxue decoction plus acupuncture by QIAO Fengying
Nasal asphyxia was first seen in Huangdi Neijing(《黄帝内经》),with frequent nasal congestion as the main manifestation,which is equivalent to chronic rhinitis in Western medicine and is one of the common refractory diseases in otolaryngology.Professor QIAO Fengying is the director of the Department of Otolaryngology of the First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,the master's tutor,and a instructor of the seventh batch of national TCM experts academic experience inheritance work has been engaged in the clinical,teaching and scientific research of otolaryngology for more than 40 years.The professor has learned from many doctors'strengths,masters TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment,and makes good use of classic prescriptions,with rich clinical experience.The professor believes that the disease is located in the nose,and the cause is mostly that the disease course is long,it does not heal for a long time,and the evil poison stays for a long time,blocking the nasal passages,and resulting in the Qi(气)and blood stagnation,and causes the nasal passages to be blocked.In terms of treatment,according to the symptoms of nasal congestion,through the combination of disease differentiation and syndrome differentiation,from the theory of stasis,based on the principle of promoting Qi and blood circulation and dissolving blood stasis,the addition and subtraction of the Tongqiao Huoxue decoction(通窍活血汤)combined with acupuncture treatment were selected to reduce the symptoms of nasal congestion.The Tongqiao Huoxue decoction comes from WANG Qingren's Yilin Gaicuo(《医林改错》),which is a classic ancient prescription for the treatment of blood stasis syndrome,has the effect of activating blood and removing blood stasis and activating the meridians.The acupuncture treatment uses acupuncture to puncture the sphenopalatine ganglion and the traditional nasal acupuncture method,both of which have the effect of dredging the nasal meridians,promoting local Qi and blood,and invigorating blood and stopping muntosis.By combining acupuncture and medicine to treat the disease showed beffer effectivenss.This paper extracts the common medical cases of Chief Physician QIAO Fengying in the treatment of nasal suffocation,and analyzes and studies them,in order to discuss the clinical experience of nasal suffocation,the feasibility of treating nasal suffocation from stasis,and the combination of acupuncture and medicine in the treatment of nasal congestion,so as to provide new ideas and new methods for improving the clinical effect.