Treat arthritis with tangerine peel and pagoda tree flowers

• January 22, 2013 21:54

Sophora japonica flowers and tangerine peel are effective in treating arthritis. According to statistics, about 0.55% of the adult population in Vietnam suffers from arthritis.

At the scientific seminar on diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis held at Thong Nhat Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City in late July 2009, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Bay - Faculty of Traditional Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, said: Sophora japonica flowers and tangerine peel also have good effects in treating arthritis.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a fairly typical autoimmune disease in humans, in the form of chronic inflammation in many peripheral joints with quite typical manifestations: swelling, joint pain, morning stiffness and bilateral symmetry. The disease is common in women (75%), aged 30 to 60.

If not treated promptly, arthritis can cause dangerous consequences such as synovitis. Long-term synovitis will cause "erosive" damage to the articular cartilage and bone ends.

If not treated properly, the damage to the cartilage and bone ends will become more and more severe, causing the joint space to gradually narrow, the bone ends to stick together, causing joint deformity, joint adhesion, joint stiffness and loss of joint mobility. At this point, the disease has affected the whole body such as fever, pallor, weakness, loss of appetite, weight loss...

To relieve pain, traditional medicine uses herbs with essential oils to prevent spasms and joint stiffness: cinnamon, Chinese clematis, piper lolot, crane's knuckle root, aconite, and asarum. To fight inflammation, people use herbs containing substances such as flavonoids, including honeysuckle, pagoda tree flower, tangerine peel, and Chinese smilax glabra. To nourish the joints, people can use polygonum multiflorum and dodder seed.

In addition to medicinal herbs, patients must also combine other therapies such as acupuncture at points near swollen joints, have an exercise regimen as soon as arthritis reduces, and increase vitamin B and C supplementation.


According to Knowledge - nt