Tonsils Palatine Tonsils are a pair of flat oval lymphoid organs located in the tonsil fossa. Tonsillar fossa: a triangular depression in the lateral wall of oropharynx between palatopharyngeal arch and palatoglossal arch. Mucosal epithelium sinks into the parenchyma to form a pit, which is called tonsil pit. The anterior lower part of tonsil is covered by palatoglossal arch, and the uncovered part of its upper end is surrounded by the membrane of tonsil body composed of connective tissue, which is only connected with pharyngeal muscle through loose connective tissue. This is usually the site of abscess formation around tonsil. The pharyngeal lymphatic ring consists of palatal tonsil, pharyngeal tonsil, pharyngeal tonsil and lingual tonsil.
The role of tonsils Tonsils Tonsils can produce lymphocytes and antibodies, so they have a defensive function against bacteria and viruses. The pharynx is the only way to eat and breathe, and frequent contact makes it easier to hide germs and foreign bodies. The abundant lymphoid tissues and tonsils in the pharynx perform defense and protection tasks in this special area of the body. However, it is also vulnerable to attack by hemolytic streptococcus. Staphylococcus and pneumococcus are inflamed by bacteria and invasion. These bacteria usually exist in human pharynx and tonsil crypt. Under normal circumstances, due to the integrity of the epithelium on the surface of tonsil and the continuous secretion of mucous glands, bacteria can be excreted from the crypt with exfoliated epithelial cells, thus maintaining the health of the body. When the body's resistance decreases due to fatigue, cold and other reasons, the epithelial defense function weakens and the gland secretion function decreases, bacterial infection and inflammation will occur in tonsils. If tonsillitis recurs and has adverse effects on the whole body, you can consider surgical removal of tonsils.
Tonsillitis generally refers to nonspecific inflammation of palatine tonsils, which can be divided into acute tonsillitis and chronic tonsillitis. Acute tonsillitis is mostly caused by infection with bacteria or viruses when the body's resistance drops. Acute onset, with sore throat as the main symptom, accompanied by chills, fever, headache and other symptoms. This is a common disease among children and adolescents. Chronic tonsillitis is caused by the recurrence of acute tonsillitis, which is characterized by dry throat, feeling of blockage, sticky secretion, difficulty in coughing and bad breath. Its recurrence can induce other diseases, such as chronic nephritis, arthritis and rheumatic heart disease, which must be actively treated. Patients should strengthen exercise at ordinary times, strengthen their physique, pay attention to oral hygiene, treat diseases in nearby tissues in time, have a light diet, quit spicy food, quit smoking and drinking, and consider surgical treatment once the disease becomes the focus of other diseases or has other surgical indications.
This disease is equivalent to the category of "suckling moth" in traditional Chinese medicine, acute tonsillitis is equivalent to "wind-heat suckling moth" and chronic tonsillitis is equivalent to "deficiency-fire suckling moth". Wind-heat moths generally spread to the lung and stomach due to sudden climate change, imbalance between cold and heat, unstable lung and health, excessive alcohol and tobacco, accumulation of heat in the spleen and stomach, or exogenous wind and heat, which burns the laryngeal nucleus and invades the laryngeal nucleus from the nose and mouth. Moths with deficiency fire are mostly moths with wind-heat or residual poison after epidemic febrile disease, with pathogenic heat damaging lung yin, or factor body yin deficiency, plus overwork, kidney yin loss, inflammation of deficiency fire and steaming throat.
How to prevent tonsillitis You can eat kumquat when you feel abnormal sensation in your throat: Compared with other sour fruits, kumquat peel is quite sweet, so it is common to eat it whole without peeling it. Kumquat peel is rich in nutrition, contains vitamin C and calcium, and has the effect of eliminating throat inflammation. Fruit contains vitamins A, B 1, B2, C and calcium. If you feel sour when eating raw, you can add rock sugar or honey to cook the juice, which is sweeter. Drinking water from boiled juice also has an effect. Kumquat leaves also have medicinal effects, and decoction is also good.
When you have a fever or sore throat, you can eat pears: pears have the functions of reducing fever, moistening throat and relieving pain, which can relieve symptoms. Pear juice also has the function of relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Squeeze a pear and freeze it for convenience. People who have a fever, are extremely afraid of cold or have diarrhea easily, it is best to drink hot pear juice.
Ginger and decoction are both effective in medicine: ginger has both edible and medicinal effects since ancient times. The rhizome of old ginger has medicinal effects, besides sweating, antipyretic and heat preservation, it can also diminish inflammation and resolve phlegm. Dried tangerine peel (dried tangerine peel) and ginger soup are better. 5 grams of ginger, 5 grams of dried tangerine peel, a little sugar and 400 grams of water are decocted into 1/3, which can be drunk. Take a rest after drinking it while it is hot, and the effect will be doubled.