What are the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine in treating epilepsy?

Through the treatment of epilepsy by Chinese medicine, this paper analyzes eight methods of treating epilepsy by Chinese medicine:

1) Nourish the liver and kidney and fill the marrow: Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is the innate foundation, which produces the marrow and dominates the brain. All epilepsy caused by insufficient endowment, such as primary epilepsy, or epilepsy caused by genetic factors or congenital brain defects, can be treated by tonifying kidney. In addition, most patients with epilepsy have been ill for a long time, and poverty is bound to affect the kidneys, and there is a close relationship between liver and kidney, which is often called "homology of liver and kidney". Deficiency of kidney water, inevitable loss of liver yin and deficiency of liver and kidney will lead to convulsion.

2) Strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi to stop epilepsy: This method is often used in the rest period of epilepsy. It is especially suitable for patients with symptoms such as yellow complexion, emaciation, hyperhidrosis and loss of appetite. Or mild convulsions, long intervals, local muscle convulsions can also be used in this way. Although invigorating spleen and qi can't directly dispel wind and resolve phlegm, Chinese medicine believes that nourishing soil can inhibit wood, that is to say, the spleen and stomach are strong, which can inhibit the folly of liver wind. In addition, the spleen and stomach are strong, and wet phlegm can also be reduced. Therefore, after clinical application of spleen-strengthening drugs, we can see that the patient's complexion is gradually rosy, his spirit is improving, his appetite is increasing, his physique is strengthening, and the number of attacks is gradually decreasing.

3) Antiepileptic method: This method is suitable for epilepsy caused by wind evil. Wind evil is different from external wind and internal wind. External wind refers to the evil of cold or rheumatism, which enters through the nose, mouth or fur. When wind pathogen is blocked in meridians, severe headache and numbness of limbs may occur. Endogenous wind is due to hyperactivity of liver yang or internal movement of yin deficiency, and wind disturbs the mind and phlegm and blood stasis, causing epilepsy and convulsions. Clinically, the onset is acute, the changes are rapid, and the clinical manifestations are complex and diverse, or the whole body twitches, the head and shoulders shake, the mouth and eyes shake, the limb muscles shake, or the eyes look up or squint, dizziness and strong pulse.

4) Eliminating stagnation, clearing away heat and stopping epilepsy: This method is suitable for "food epilepsy" and "heat epilepsy" mentioned by Chinese medicine. Food epilepsy is epilepsy induced by eating disorder, which is used by more children with epilepsy. Most seizures are accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms, such as burping, epigastric fullness, anorexia, or repeated vomiting, or paroxysmal severe abdominal pain.

5) the method of calming the heart and calming the nerves, regulating qi and stopping epilepsy: this method is suitable for epilepsy induced by extreme emotional factors such as panic. Panic leads to disorder of qi, fear leads to imbalance of qi and blood, invasion of the brain, excessive emotion, excessive heart and liver fire, and disturbance of pathogenic heat leads to restlessness, resulting in convulsion, epilepsy and convulsion. Epilepsy is accompanied by screaming, anxiety, muscle beating, laughter disorder, inattention, timidity, fidgeting, less sleep and more dreams. Drugs that calm nerves can be used.

6) Determination of epilepsy by resuscitation: When epilepsy is unconscious, resuscitation should be used for first aid, which is the knowledge of * * *, but the understanding of how to enlighten is not uniform. Some people advocate aromatic resuscitation, some people advocate resolving phlegm and resuscitation, and some people think that it is not necessary to use resuscitation drugs alone, but to promote blood circulation, resolve phlegm and dredge collaterals. My experience is that in case of epilepsy emergency, acupuncture and medicine should be used together, and Chinese and western medicines should be used together to quickly stop epilepsy and protect the brain and mind from continuous damage.

7) Eliminating phlegm and stopping epilepsy: Chinese medicine believes that "no phlegm leads to epilepsy", which means phlegm is the source of epilepsy, so eliminating phlegm is a very important method to treat epilepsy. Epilepsy patients are either due to phlegm blocking the lung collaterals in the form of phlegm, which leads to phlegm making sounds in the throat and spitting, or due to intangible phlegm blindness. Some of these phlegm syndromes are due to spleen deficiency and dereliction of duty, and the phlegm transformed from water to dampness becomes hot phlegm and dry phlegm. Clinically, methods such as clearing heat and resolving phlegm, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm, regulating qi and resolving phlegm, and searching wind and resolving phlegm should be selected according to different phlegm evil properties of patients.

8) Promoting blood circulation and removing osmium: This method is more suitable for craniocerebral trauma, or epilepsy caused by dystocia and intracranial hemorrhage in children. During the attack, the qi and blood of human viscera are unbalanced and disordered. Qi disorder will inevitably lead to poor qi and blood circulation, because qi and blood are closely related. After qi stagnation, blood flow is blocked, and after blood stasis, qi activity is even worse. Therefore, in the treatment of epilepsy, especially in the treatment of traumatic epilepsy, the use of drugs to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis can improve the curative effect. It should be noted that women with menorrhagia or pregnancy are forbidden to use commonly used blood-activating drugs.

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