(1) Herbal Therapy
1) Internal Medicine
Acute nasosinusitis
Syndrome of wind and heat of lung meridian
Therapeutic methods: Dispelling wind and clearing away heat, dispersing the lung and removing obstruction of the orifice.
Prescription : Modified Cang'erzi Powder (Xanthium Powder)
(2) Syndrome of stagnated heat of the gallbladder
Therapeutic methods: Clearing away heat from the gallbladder, removing dampness and obstruction of the orifice.
Prescriptions: Modified Longdan Xiegan Decoction (Decoction of Gentiana for Purging the Liver Fire).
(3) Syndrome of dampness and heat of the spleen and stomach
Therapeutic methods: Clearing away heat and removing dampness, eliminating turbidity to remove obstruction of the orifice.
Prescription: Modified Huangqin Huashi Decoction (Scutellaria and Talc Decoction).
Chronic nasosinusitis
(1) Syndrome of asthenic cold of the lung qi
Therapeutic methods: Warming and invigorating the lung qi, dispelling wind and dispersing cold.
Prescription: Modified Wenfei Zhiliu Pill (Lung-warming and Rhinorrhea-checking Pill)
Syndrome of asthenic cold of the lung qi
(2) Syndrome of qi deficiency of the spleen
Therapeutic methods: Strengthening the spleen and invigorating qi, removing dampness.
Prescription: Modified Shenling Baizhu Powder (Powder of Ginseng, Poria and Bighead Atractylodes).
2) External Medicine
(1) Use Biyu Powder (Green-jade Powder) and Yunaoshi Powder (Powder of Asteriscus Pseudosciaenae) for nasal insufflation. Please refer to the relevent part of "Other therapeutic methods" of "Chronic rhinitis".
(2) Take 9g of Biond Magnolia Flower, Angelica Dahurica and Xanthium Sibiricum respectively, and decoction them in a earthen pot. Take the decoction after it is done. Besides, cramm a piece of ribbon gauze that has been soaked in the juice of Biond Magnolia Flower into the nasal cavity for two hours, apply it once a day. It is applicable for acute nasosinusitis.
(3) Er Cha San(Acacia Catechu Powder): grind right amount of Acacia catechu into powder and blow the powder into the nose, apply it three times a day. This method can clear away heat and eliminate phlegm, remove swelling and pus. It is applicable for patient of nasosinusitis with suppuration.
(4) Grind 9g of Asteriscus Pseudosciaenae Powder, 6g of Biond Magnolia Flower, 3g of Asarum sieboldi Mig and 0.9g of borneol into powder. Blow the powder into the nose three times daily. It is applicable for chronic nasosinusitis.
(5) Nasosinusitis is mainly caused by the attacking of lung due to wind heat and pathogenic factors. Grind 10g of Rheum officinale into powder, and stir it with right amount of rice vinegar into magma. Apply the paste onto Yongquan of the both feet and then bind up the feet with gauze and fasten them with adhesive plaster every evening before sleep, and remove the paste in the nest day morning. Apply the paste continuously for seven days. It can draw the heat downward, clear away heat in the lung.
(2) Acupoints Massage
1) Shangxing (GV23), Cuanzhu (BL 2), Yingxing (LI20): Apply digital pressing manipulation to each acupoint for 3-5 minutes one time, 2-3 times a day.
2) Yintang (EX-HN3): Apply squeezing and pressing manipulation to it for 3-5 minutes one time, 2-3 times a day.
(3) Guasha Therapy
1) Acupoints selected: Baihui (GV20), Fengchi (GB20), Fengmen (BL 12), Quchi (LI11), Shousanli (LI 10), Hegu (LI 4).
2) Manipulation: Hold the Guasha board, keep 45 degrees with the skin, scrape these acupoints form up to bottom with comfortable force until a local red speckle occurs. The strength should depend on the patient at which he feels comfortable.
(4) Cupping Therapy
Acupoints selected: Dazhui(DU14), Fengmen (BL 12), Shenshu (BL23), Feishu (BL 13), Ganshu (BL 18), Zhongwan(RN12), Taiyuan (LU9), Hegu (LI 4), Fenglong (ST 40).
Cupping methods:
Cupping: you should use the putting fire into cup or cupping after flash of fire method to suck Dazhui, Shenzhu, Feishu, Hegu; or you could adopt cupping method of air pump.
Acucupping: you should use needles to prick dazhui, shenzhu, fengmen, feishu, zhongwan, fenglong. After the patient has some feeling, you should adopt cupping or cupping method of air pump to suck the above acupoints.
Cupping of venesection: after disinfecting the acupoints of Dazhui, Feishu, Ganshu and Taiyuan, you should prick each acupoints for 2-3 times with three-edged needles and then you should adopt cupping after flash of fire to suck them.
(5) Foot Massage
Basic reflection areas: adrenal gland, spleen.
Related reflection areas: ear, cerebrum, lymph node of the upper body.
Symptom reflection areas: nose, frontal sinus.
Reflexotherapy is taken up of 10-15 times as a course of treatment, 30-40 times each time, 1-2 times each day, repeat it after 1-2 days. Soak both feet with light salt water to recover the sensitivity of feet to massage.
