Objective: Chronic tonsillitis is a common and frequently occurring disease in the clinic. At present, drug or surgery is the main treatment in modern medicine, but there are problems such as easy recurrence of the disease and poor acceptance by patients. Professor Ye Gaxi, who has been in the clinic for nearly 30 years, believes that chronic tonsillitis is mostly caused by external attack of evil heat and intermerging of phlegm and blood stasis, and the treatment should focus on diathermy and removing blood stasis. Therefore, he proposed the academic idea of applying cautery therapy to treat chronic tonsillitis by “expelling heat and promoting blood circulation to eliminate phlegm”, and innovated the Tonsil cauterizer and oral endoscope. It can not only preserve the immune function of tonsils, but also avoid the occurrence of scalding oral organs during operation, and has a good clinical effect.
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