Currently, the prevalence of allergic rhinitis is increasing year by year, with symptoms such as itchy nose, stuffy nose, runny nose, etc., which cannot be cured, and frequent attacks, causing great disruption to the daily life and work of people suffering from the disease. It is not curable, and frequent attacks cause great disturbance to the daily life and work of people with the disease. This article reviewed and summarized the traditional Chinese medicine external treatment of allergic rhinitis in the last 5 years, in order to provide more methods and ideas for clinical treatment.

Yang Ziyue, Zhang Xiong. Research Progress on External Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis with Traditional Chinese Medicine. International Journal of Frontiers in Medicine (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 2: 66-71. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFM.2024.060210.

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