Overview
Rhinitis is the clinical common disease, generally divides into the acute rhinitis and the chronic rhinitis. The former is nasal cavity mucous membrane acute inflammation disease, has the contagion, by stuffy nose, stream tears, sneeze, even does not hear the sweet-smelling and foul-smelling primarily sickness; The latter is the nose mucous membrane and the submucosa chronic inflammation, by the chronic stuffy nose primarily sickness, includes the chronic retinitis simplex rhinitis and the chronic hypertrophic rhinitis usually. The traditional Chinese medicine thought that this defect mainly caused by being affected by the cold, but stagnancy to thermal; or the wind attacks the lung thermal, impairment of purifying function of the lung, follows thermal after on steams in the nose; or liver and gall fire is abundant, the gallbladder fire follows in the brain, namely "the gallbladder moves to the heat in the brain"; or humid heat injures the spleen and stomach, transportation and transformation are abnormal, the fresh air does not rise, the foul air does not fall, follows humid heat in the nose. The treatment principles are clearing heat, purging pathogenic fire and opening the inhibited lung-energy.

Treatment
1. Yingxiang (LI20)
Inject Heartleaf Houttuynia Herb injection 0.3 ml in acupuncture point. Every other day one time, 5 times make up a course of treatment.

2. Lieque (LU7)
Take two-sided, with moxa stick moxibustion, each point 10 rain. Daily one time, 5 times make up a course of treatment.

3. Yintang
With hypoxanthin riboside injection 0.2 ml (10 mg), delivers the needle to the tip of the nose direction, when the numb and aching feeling appear, pushes the medicine slowly. Every other day one time, 5 times make up a course of treatment.

Note
1st, acupuncture treating this defect is valid, the acute rhinitis common needle 2-3 times then obtains the remarkable curative effect, to improves the nasal passage the ventilation function to be more rapid especially. The chronic course is long, acupuncture to chronic retinitis simplex rhinitis's curative effect compared to hypertrophic rhinitis for good.

2nd, the patient goes out when wears the mouthpiece, prevalence period do not come in the public place as far as possible, avoids infecting. Make active treatment for upper respiratory tract diseases.