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Polyps (nasal) treatment with herbs

By Archived User | Updated: Dec 31, 2021 | Published: Dec 31, 2021

What patent medicine could treat polyps in the nose?

My friend already had 5 operation of polyps and she says that every time they grow up again.

Archived Comments

Comment by Chad J. Dupuis, L.Ac.

This has been covered multiple times on the site already. In short, you don’t choose herbal formulas based on symptoms (see “treating the cause vs. the symptoms”) for the general concepts of Chinese Medicine. So the right formula for your friend would have to be determined by her practitioner.

As for polyps generally, the following discussion (which also links to previous discussions) has more details:

There are a few previous discussions on the site already regarding this topic. This previous reply gives some details - Nasal polyp In short, yes, it is absolutely critical to resolve the deepest underlying factors involved with the development of polyps and this is something that Chinese Medicine can help with. Resolving polyps that are there already is not impossible, but is difficult and at times surgery may be warranted. Generally you are correct in that there is extremely high levels of…

Comment by Archived User

Chad_Dupuis, thank you very much for your reply!