過敏性鼻炎在古書中並無此病名的記載,依文獻考據屬於「鼻鼽」範疇。鼻鼽一病早在西周《禮記•月全》中已有記載:「季秋行屬令,則其國大水,冬藏殃敗,民多鼽嚏」。至春秋戰國時代,《內經》中對本病有了較多的論述。現代醫學分為季節性過敏性鼻炎及全年性過敏性鼻炎;中醫臨床上主要有:屬實證之風邪犯肺,熱飲痺阻及風邪犯肺,寒飲痺阻及屬虛證之氣陰兩虛,風邪犯肺及脾肺虛損,衛陽不實兩大類。以中醫理、法、方、藥論治過敏性鼻炎(鼻鼽)。其主要以頻繁的噴嚏、鼻癢、大量水樣鼻涕為特徵,辨證按虛、實兩端論治,實則責之于風寒,風熱之邪及飲邪上干,阻塞肺氣,鼻竅不通;虛則責之于肺、脾、腎三臟,氣、陰兩虛為患,或補氣養陰,甘寒益肺,或培之生金,溫陽化飲,或為溫暖其元,引火歸元等,臨床常獲良效。
The allergic rhinitis was not recorded in the ancient books. It belonged to the scope of ”stuffy nose” in accordance with the literatures. The disease of stuffy nose had been recorded in ”Li Chi, Yueh Ling” at Western Chou Dynasty. It was specified ”the big flood was occurred in autumn, and the people often got the stuffy nose in winter”. In the Chun Chiu Chan Kuo Period, more argumentation about this disease was stated in ”Nai Jing”. It is divided into the seasonal allergic rhinitis and yearly allergic rhinitis in modern medical science. It is regarded as the deficiency of lung, spleen, and stomach in the clinical Chinese Medicine. The Chinese Medicine syndrome can be used to treat this allergic rhinitis (stuffy nose). If the deficiency of lung, spleen, and stomach can be cured, it will often obtain good result clinically.