Overview
This is a kind of inflammation of tonsil, and it is divided into acute and chronic one. The acute tonsillitis is an acute non-specificity inflammation with acute pharyngitis of diverse extent and suffered ambit, it has infectiosity and always infections child and young, especially when the weather changes in spring and autumn. The chronic tonsillitis is developed by acute one when it recurrent attacks, children in 7-14 years old are easily to be infected. In Chinese medicine, the pathogenesis of it is wind and heat invasion of lung, and pathogenic heat burns the lung system and knot in the throat, or pathogenic heat transfers into lung and stomach, or taking in too much pungent and greasy food and stomach fire flare upwards, or pathogenic heat stays too long and burns yin of lung and kidney, hyperactivity of deficient fire suffers the throat. The therapeutics is to eliminate phlegm and cool the heat, disperse the lung and relieve sore throat.

Treatment
1. Biantaoti Point
Locate in the anterior aspect 0.5 cun under the angle of jaw. Insert the needle 1-1.5 cun into the acupoint towards the throat, using twirling reducing manipulation unless the patients feel soreness sand distension in the throat and retain the needles for 20 minutes. The treatment is given once daily, 10 sessions constituting one therapeutic course.

2. Hegu (LI 4)
Add a bit of realgar into stalk of the garlic, scorch them. Put garlic on the suffered lateral point and cover it with the sterile gauze. When the foaming is too large you can exsert the liquid with injectors and still cover it with the sterile gauze, if the blister changes into incrustation and decrustation, you can use acupoint Application again. 3 sessions constitute one therapeutic course.

3. Houkai
Locate above Luxi (SI19), the same level of upwards of ear and the anterior border of hair line. Choose the vein rounding the point, and pricks it with a three edged needle and let out the blood. Treat it both sides alternatively. The treatment is given once daily, 10 sessions constituting one therapeutic course.

4. Jiaosun (SJ 20)
Choose suffered lateral point, using rush dipping with oil, and fires it then touch the point immediately and the acupoint becomes blush with ba, that will be ok. The treatment is given once daily, 1-3 sessions constituting one therapeutic course. It is suited for acute tonsillitis.

Note
1. Acupuncture is an effective way to treat tonsillitis, and it can release the pain and anti swelling. The average curing rate is more than 90%. There is few effective treating and preventing ways towards chronic tonsillitis which is recurrent attack. When it is not suit for operation, acupuncture is an effective treatment in clinic.

2. When treating acute tonsillitis, pay attention to prevent being recurrent and change to chronic ones. And we should deals with the tropical and systemically complications promptly.