There are many elderly people whose joints are always sore. Some are due to rainy weather, some are due to overwork.
At present, many young people also suffer from joint pain. At the same time, there are more and more people suffering from cervical spondylosis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and low back and leg pain, and they are getting younger and younger.
many people always want to find some medicine to take, hoping to relieve symptoms, but they are always afraid of too many side effects and don't know how to choose.
in the view of Chinese medicine, all these diseases are caused by the deficiency of vital qi and the feeling of external evils such as wind, cold, dampness and heat, which block meridians and block qi and blood, making qi and blood run poorly. Chinese medicine is collectively called arthralgia.
arthralgia is simply pain, numbness, heat, swelling and limited movement of muscles, joints and bones. The causes leading to arthralgia syndrome are different, and the specific symptoms are also different, and the medication is also different, so the best effect can be achieved by symptomatic medication.
1. Wind-cold-dampness arthralgia
Features: joint pain and swelling, aggravated in rainy days, and the affected area is afraid of wind and cold.
this is the most common joint pain, which is more common in the elderly. It is caused by the invasion of wind, cold and dampness, which leads to the obstruction of qi and blood. Especially in rainy weather, it will break out or get worse.
Second, rheumatic arthralgia
Features: the joints are red, swollen and burning, and the pain refuses to touch, and is relieved when it is cold
One kind of arthralgia is characterized by local redness and burning, which causes severe pain when touched, sometimes subcutaneous nodules or erythema, which is relieved when it is cold, and the pain is uncertain, involving multiple joints.
At the same time, it may be accompanied by fever, bad wind, sweating, thirst, irritability and other systemic symptoms, with red tongue and yellow or greasy tongue coating.
this kind of arthralgia belongs to heat arthralgia, which is caused by feeling wind, dampness, heat evil, or wind, cold and dampness evil staying for a long time to turn into heat, so it has the symptoms of heat evil, and the onset is generally acute, mostly in young adults.
If you encounter this kind of arthralgia, you should choose drugs that can dispel wind, dampness and heat.
Third, rheumatism and blood stasis
Features: joint tingling, fixed pain position, and severe pain at night.
There is a kind of arthralgia, which is characterized by pain in limbs and joints. This kind of pain is mainly tingling. The pain is severe, the pain part is fixed, and it hurts more when you press it, and it hurts more at night than during the day.
At the same time, there are symptoms such as numbness of limbs, flaccidity and weakness of lower limbs, inability to turn over, dark purple tongue and petechiae on tongue coating. This is a arthralgia due to blood stasis, which is caused by blood stasis blocking meridians, and it is important to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.
IV. Deficiency of liver and kidney
Features: joint pain persists for a long time, joint swelling and deformation, muscle atrophy and inability to walk.
Some middle-aged and elderly people suffer from rheumatism for a long time, but they can't get well. They have long-term limb joint pain, unfavorable flexion and extension or numbness, swollen and stiff joints, deformation, and even muscle atrophy. They can't straighten their elbows and knees. In serious cases, they can't even stand and walk, and they can't lift their heads, and their hunchbacks are very severe.
Joint pain in middle-aged and elderly people is accompanied by symptoms of liver and kidney deficiency, such as soreness of waist and knees, hot flashes due to bone steaming, spontaneous sweating and night sweats.
This is caused by the persistent pathogenic wind, cold and dampness, which damages the liver and kidney and consumes qi and blood. Therefore, this kind of patients not only need to promote blood circulation and dredge collaterals, but also need to replenish liver and kidney.
star Chinese patent medicine
Today, we mainly introduce a general Chinese patent medicine for treating rheumatalgia-Yaofeng Fengshi Capsule.
it consists of Herba Siegesbeckiae, Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, Herba Taxilli, Ramulus Mori, Ramulus Sophorae, and Radix Clematidis. It has the effects of expelling wind, removing dampness, dredging collaterals and relieving pain.
It is clinically used for quadriplegia, weakness of waist and knees, joint pain and rheumatoid arthritis.
Siegesbeckiae doesn't feel strange. It belongs to the category of making a fortune with a muffled voice. Although its popularity is far less than that of the traditional Chinese medicine, even worse than that of Fangji, there are many Siegesbeckiae figures in the patent medicine made by pharmaceutical companies. For example, Jietong Shuan Pill, Jiehong Tongluo Oral Liquid, etc.
From the names of these traditional Chinese medicines, we can see that Siegesbeckiae can not only dispel wind and dampness, but also dredge blood clots and treat cerebral infarction.
As a herb of Compositae, the dry aerial part of Herba Siegesbeckiae is fragrant, with strong qi circulation, bitter taste and dryness, and cold nature can clear away heat, thus expelling wind and dampness, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, and benefiting joints. It has a good curative effect on rheumatism, lumbago, rubella, wet sores, hemiplegia, and even local blood stasis and swelling caused by soft tissue injury or fracture surgery.
the strong functions of promoting qi and expelling wind and dredging collaterals can help patients with sequela of cerebral infarction to improve qi and blood obstruction and meridian obstruction, so that pathogenic factors can be removed to the right.
preventing oneself from suffering from cold, dispersing pungent and bitter herbs, expelling wind and removing dampness, relieving arthralgia and relieving pain, clearing damp-heat and inducing diuresis to reduce swelling. In particular, Han Fangji, a non-Aristolochiaceae, has a bitter and cold taste, and is good at eliminating dampness in meridians, relieving arthralgia and relieving pain.
parasitic on mulberry trees. The "Oriental Shenmu" mulberry was born out of the gas, and the medicine was dry leafy stems and branches. Bitter and sweet in taste, entering the liver and kidney, it can replenish the temperature, replenish blood and regulate blood vessels, calm down and dispel wind and dampness, treat bone and muscle pain, remove tendons and collaterals, wind-cold-dampness arthralgia and so on.
as a branch of the oriental Shenmu mulberry tree, the mulberry branches are bitter and smooth to remove dampness and enter the liver meridian, which has a very good effect on dredging meridians and expelling wind and dampness. In addition, "every medicine is that the branches reach the limbs", and the mulberry branches are good at reaching the meridians of the limbs, which is a good medicine to remove cold-dampness arthralgia, joint pain and numbness, limb contracture and so on.
Mulberry branches and Taxilli are old partners. Mulberry branches connect the limbs, while Taxilli tonifies the liver and kidney and strengthens the bones and muscles, which complement each other.
Sophora branches, the tender branches of Leguminosae Sophora japonica, are cultivated on the side of houses and roadsides. Both bark and pods are good rations in famine years. Their branches are bitter and flat in taste, and have the functions of removing blood stasis, stopping bleeding, clearing heat, eliminating dampness, expelling wind and killing insects.
People often use its branch bark and borneol to grind powder and stuff it in the nose to treat facial paralysis, which is related to catching cold. Due to wind-induced dispersion, wet and sticky, heat easily hurts body fluids, resulting in blood dryness, which makes the skin dystrophy and itching. Sophora branches also have antipruritic effect.
Clematis is really a magic medicine for dispelling wind and removing dampness, and it has been found in countless places. Its nature is pungent and salty, and it is good at running. It can dispel the wind in the exterior, dispel the dampness in the interior, eliminate phlegm and stagnation, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, warm and tonify and dredge meridians.
It is a good medicine for expelling wind, promoting blood circulation, removing dampness, dredging five internal organs, and treating rheumatism and arthralgia, even gallstones, calcaneal spur and esophageal cancer.
the whole prescription uses 5 kinds of drugs, which can regulate cold and heat, dispel wind and remove dampness, dredge collaterals and relieve pain. Moreover, Herba Siegesbeckiae is good at dredging blood vessels, preventing oneself and promoting diuresis. Mulberry branches and Sophora branches are especially good at dredging meridians of limbs, while mulberry mistletoe is good at regulating blood vessels, and Clematis chinensis is good at promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Just like a martial arts sect, each master has martial arts skills and unique skills, * * * will carry forward this sect.
It is worth noting that this prescription treats the stagnation of qi and blood, joint pain, numbness of limbs, and unfavorable flexion and extension caused by rheumatism in the exterior or stagnation of meridians.
treating the symptoms but not the root cause, you can cooperate with the prescriptions for treating the root cause according to the specific situation of the patient.
Summary of Chinese patent medicine for arthralgia
Finally, I will summarize the differences between four kinds of rheumatic joint pain and its representative Chinese patent medicine.
1. Wind-cold-dampness arthralgia
Typical symptoms: joint pain and swelling, aggravated in rainy days, and the affected area is afraid of wind and cold.
stands for Chinese patent medicines: Mugua Pill, Musk Zhuifeng Ointment, Zhuifeng Pill, Medicinal Pill, Tianma Pill, Jingfukang Granule
2. Rheumatic arthralgia
Typical symptoms: joint swelling and burning, pain refusing to touch, and relieving in case of cold.
stands for Chinese patent medicines: Yitong Pill, Danggui Niantong Pill, Damp-heat Bi Capsule, Ermiao Pill, Tongluo Zhitong Capsule
3. Rheumatism and blood stasis
Typical symptoms: tingling in joints, fixed pain position, and severe pain at night.
on behalf of Chinese patent medicines: Sanqishang Pill, Yunnan Baiyao Ointment, Bone Hyperplasia-Tieling, Huoluo Zhitong Pill and Miaoji Pill.
4. Deficiency of liver and kidney
Typical symptoms: joint pain persists for a long time, joint swelling and deformation, muscle atrophy and inability to walk.
stands for proprietary Chinese medicines: Duhuo Jisheng Pill, Kanggu Zengsheng Pill, Shengui Zaizao Pill, Yangxue Rongjin Pill.
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