Acute and chronic pharyngitis can be treated by the following methods.
Applications of hand therapy:
Acupuncture therapy:
At regular and extra acupoints.
Location: Hegu (LI 4), Shaoshang (LU 11) and Shangyang (LI 1) acupoints.
Method of manipulation: Bleeding therapy is applied at Shaoshang (LU !1) and Shangyang (LI 1), and the routine acupuncture is applied at Hegu (LI 4) with the needle retained for 30 minutes.