Rheumatology & Orthopedics
Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease in which the body's immune system produces a pathologic response to its own antigens, resulting in redness, swelling, heat, pain, and even deformity in the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis Chinese medicine treatment methods include internal treatment, external treatment, as well as drug injection, and cupping.
1. Internal treatment: patients need to follow the doctor's instructions according to the staging of rheumatoid arthritis, identification, and treatment. If rheumatoid arthritis belongs to rheumatism-heat paralysis, traditional Chinese medicines with the efficacy of dispelling wind and removing dampness, subduing swelling, and relieving pain such as Baihu Guizhi Zonggan Jiaonang Xiaofeng Zhitongning Jiaonang can be used. If it belongs to cold paralysis, Chinese medicines with the efficacy of dispelling wind and dispersing cold, promoting the lungs, and relieving epidemiology can be used, such as Wutou Tang and Mahuang Lianqiao Chixiaodou Tang. If it belongs to dampness paralysis, Chinese herbal medicines with the efficacy of dispelling wind-dampness, winning dampness, and relieving pain can be used, such as Fangfeng Tang and Coix Seed Tang. In addition, you can also use Fangfeng Tang, through the combination of internal and external regulation.
2. External treatments: including acupuncture, massage, hot compresses, foot soaks, etc. Acupuncture, for example, can stimulate the body's acupoints and regulate qi, blood, and fluids, to achieve the goal of painlessness. Massage can relax the muscles, relieve muscle tension and accelerate blood circulation in the organism. And hot compresses, foot baths can improve the operation of local qi and blood, to relieve the pain symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis;.
3. Drug injection method: Chinese medicine with the efficacy of activating blood circulation, warming menstruation and dispersing cold, dispelling wind, and removing dampness can be injected into the vicinity of the patient's painful joints, such as pain-eliminating plasters, to play the role of promoting blood circulation and relieving pain.
4. Cupping: It is a kind of treatment method in Chinese medicine, which can make the can adsorb on the acupoints or a certain part of the body surface through heat to produce benign stimulation, to achieve the effects of activating the channels and collaterals, activating qi and blood circulation, dispelling wind and dispersing cold, and eliminating dampness and relieving pain.
Rheumatology & Orthopedics
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