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 energy, causing joint pain. Treatment methods all aim to circulate blood and energy 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 Chinese Medicine 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-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 and rapid pulse, no thirst..., use Ma Hoang Gia Truat thang: 12g Ma Hoang, 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 there is a fever and cold, which worsens in the afternoon, difficulty urinating, tired thighs and fear of wind, use the 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 until it is reduced to 1 bowl, drink hot at once. The patient should avoid wind, if he feels a little sweaty, it is good.

If the body is heavy, sweating profusely, afraid of wind, the pulse is floating and weak... Use the Fangji Huangqi decoction: 4g Fangji, 3g Atractylodes, 4 slices of fresh ginger, 2g licorice, 5g Astragalus, 1 jujube. Boil with 3 bowls of water until reduced 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 goes up, add 4g of cinnamon; if the lower body is cold, add 4g of ji tan.

If the body is heavy and cannot turn over, sweats a lot, the pulse is floating, weak and weak... use the Cinnamon twig decoction: 16g cinnamon twig, 8g licorice, 12 jujubes, 3 aconite roots, 3 slices of ginger. Boil with 6 bowls of water until 3 bowls remain, discard the residue, drink 1 bowl hot, 3 times a day.

If the joints are painful, cannot be flexed or extended, pressing on the joints makes it more painful, urination is difficult and the body is a bit 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 until there are 3 bowls left, discard the residue, drink 1 bowl hot, 3 times a day. Initially, 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 swollen and painful 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.

- Phong Tri 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 inner thigh, from kneecap measure up 2 inches, the point is located in the hollow between the sartorius muscle and vastus lateralis muscle, pressing on it feels sore.

- Stomach 36: Place the palm of your hand between the knees, the tip of the middle finger touches the shin bone (tibia), then slightly move outwards to this point.

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

According to Health and Life