When people suffer from excessive internal heat, symptoms such as a yellow tongue coating and a bitter taste with a dry throat appear. Patients with chronic pharyngitis often have increased pharyngeal secretions, leading to frequent throat-clearing actions and expelling white phlegm. Honeysuckle Jasmine Tea has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on chronic pharyngitis. Everyone might as well try it: Honeysuckle, Jasmine, and Chinese wolfberry (Medlar) 3g each, 1 piece of Boat-fruited Sterculia Seed (Pangdahai), and an appropriate amount of rock sugar. Steep in boiling water for 5-10 minutes before drinking, 1-2 times daily.

Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that chronic pharyngitis can be caused by yin deficiency with fire excess, phlegm obstruction and blood stasis, yin deficiency and fluid exhaustion, etc. Honeysuckle clears heat and toxins, cools and disperses wind heat; Jasmine disperses wind heat; Chinese wolfberry (Medlar) tonifies the liver and kidneys, moistens the lungs, and relieves cough. The combination of these three medicines works together to achieve the effect of nourishing yin and clearing fire, showing good efficacy for chronic pharyngitis caused by yin deficiency and fire excess. Honeysuckle and Jasmine have a relatively cool medicinal nature, so they should be used cautiously by those with spleen and stomach deficiency cold who are prone to diarrhea. For severe chronic pharyngitis, targeted treatment by a doctor based on the cause is necessary.

Therefore, the diet should be light, avoiding greasy, raw, cold, and stimulating foods. People with obvious symptoms of excessive internal heat can eat some fire-clearing foods, such as mung bean soup, honeysuckle tea, chrysanthemum tea, and lotus seed heart soaked in water. Slightly pungent foods, such as scallions, ginger, leeks, and garlic sprouts, are all foods that nourish spring energy. Eating these foods is very beneficial for the growth of the body's yang energy in spring. Lifestyle habits should be adjusted, such as paying attention to oral hygiene, insisting on brushing teeth in the morning and evening and after meals; reducing irritation from smoke, alcohol, or dust; correcting the habit of breathing through the mouth; strengthening exercise; eating more fruits, fresh vegetables, etc.

Diseases such as gastric and duodenal ulcers are prone to occur in spring. The diet should avoid foods rich in creatine, purine bases, and other substances, such as meat soup, chicken soup, fish soup, animal offal, and stimulating condiments. Because these foods strongly stimulate gastric acid secretion or form gas, causing bloating and increasing the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. Chronic tracheitis and bronchitis are also prone to occur in spring. It is advisable to eat more foods that dispel phlegm, strengthen the spleen, tonify the kidney, and nourish the lung, such as loquats, oranges, pears, walnuts, honey, etc., which can help alleviate symptoms.