Good medicine to cure joint pain

Joint pain is caused by insufficient protective energy in the body, and evil energies: wind, cold, dampness, and heat invade the muscles and tendons.

Joint pain is caused by insufficient protective energy in the body, and the evil energies: wind, cold, dampness, and heat invade the muscles, bones, joints, and meridians, blocking the circulation of blood and qi, causing joint pain. Treatment methods all aim to circulate blood and qi in the muscles and bones; and expel the evil energies (wind, cold, dampness, and heat).

Pain in the joints without heat or redness, in traditional medicine it is called wind-cold-dampness-typhoid. Depending on the severity of the pathogenic qi causing the disease, it is called wind-cold-dampness or cold-cold-dampness-typhoid... The patient has symptoms of pain moving in the joints, pain in many joints and fatigue, fear of wind more than cold, abdominal discomfort, white tongue coating, floating and slow pulse. Treatment method: dispel wind, activate blood, and circulate qi.

If the patient has all the above symptoms, no sweat, floating but rapid pulse, no thirst..., use Ma Huang Jia Truat thang: 12g Ma Huang, 8g Licorice, 7 almonds, 8g Cinnamon, 16g Atractylodes (raw). Boil the medicine with 2 bowls of water, reduce to 1 bowl, drink hot at once. The patient should avoid wind, if the person sweats lightly, it is good.

If the fever and cold come back in the afternoon, urination is difficult, thighs are tired and afraid of wind, use Ma Huang Xing Ren Coi Yi Li Cao Tang: 2g Ma Huang, 20g Coi Yi, 10 almonds, 4g licorice. Boil the medicine with 2 bowls of water, reduce to 1 bowl, drink hot at once. The patient should avoid wind, feeling a little sweat is good.

If the body is heavy, sweating spontaneously, afraid of wind, the pulse is floating and weak... Use the Fangji Huangqi decoction: 4g Fangji, 3g Atractylodes macrocephala, 4 slices of fresh ginger, 2g licorice, 5g Astragalus, 1 jujube. Boil with 3 bowls of water, reduce to 1 bowl, drink hot at once.

After drinking for a while, you will feel like ants are crawling on your skin, from the waist down it will be cold as money, so cover yourself with a warm blanket and let it sweat, then the disease will be cured. If you have asthma, add 2g of ephedra; if the stomach is not in harmony, add 4g of white peony; if the qi is going up, add 4g of cinnamon; if the lower body is cold, add 4g of te tan.

If the body is heavy and cannot turn over on its own, sweats a lot, the pulse is floating, weak and weak... use the Que chi thang recipe: 16g cinnamon, 8g licorice, 12 jujubes, 3 aconite roots, 3 slices of ginger. Boil with 6 bowls of water until reduced to 3 bowls, remove the residue, drink 1 bowl hot, 3 times a day.

If the joints are painful, cannot be flexed or extended, pressing on the hand makes it more painful, urination is difficult and the body is slightly swollen... use the Cam thao phu tu thang: 8g licorice, 8g white atractylodes, 2 aconite roots, 16g cinnamon. Boil the medicine with 6 bowls of water, reduce to 3 bowls, discard the residue, drink 1 bowl hot, 3 times a day. At first, drink 1 bowl, if you sweat a little then stop; after eating and drinking, if the discomfort arises again, drink another half bowl of medicine.

Combine acupuncture and massage the acupoints at the painful and swollen joints and the area around the painful joints. Whole body acupoints: Hegu, Fengmen, Fengchi, Xuehai, Zusanli, Gedu.

Acupuncture point location:

- Hegu: close the index finger and thumb together, the point is at the highest point of the index finger and thumb muscle.

- Phong Mon: below the spinous process of the 2nd thoracic vertebra, 1.5 inches laterally.

- Fengchi point: at the depression of the inner edge of the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the outer edge of the trapezius muscle attached to the base of the skull.

- Blood sea: front and inside of the thigh, measure up 2 inches from the kneecap, the point is located in the hollow between the sartorius muscle and the vastus lateralis muscle, pressing on it causes a sore feeling.

- Stomach 36: place the palm of your hand on the middle of your knee, the tip of your middle finger touches the shin bone (tibia), then slightly move outward to this point.

- How to travel: below the 7th thoracic vertebra, measure 1.5 inches horizontally.

According to Health and Life