Functional exercise for mastitis

(1) The daily exercises methods for the prevention of mastitis for the women are as follows:

1) Hang down the arms naturally and bend the wrist joints upwards; exercise the fingers by clenching the fist or the hand-muscle developer.

2) Stand straight and keep the arms hand down naturally; contract the muscles of the upper arms and hang the arms up close to the ears; and then relax the body.

3) Stand straight and place a long crabstick at the back of body or neck; hold both ends of it with hands; and then saw it with arms.

4) Stand straight and raise the arms at the effected side; then pull it with the arm at the other side.

5) Stand straight and raise the effected arm; extend it upwards or do up the hair with it. Continue to read Chinese medicine Treatment for Mastitis.

(2) The amount of exercise should be adjusted according to the physical condition of the patients; take the exercises such as swimming, badminton, Pingpong, etc at the daily life which is helpful to the prevention of the galactophore diseases.

(3) Pay attention to the prevention; wash the nipple with the warm water at the later stage of gestation; if the nipples are sucked inward, people should massage and pull them gently after cleaning. 

(4) During the week before the labour, women should wash and crab the nipples with the hot towel, suds and the light salty water to make the skin of them tenacious. But the alcohol should be avoided as it can make the skin weak; if the nipples are sunken, people should often pull them out for sucking by the infants.

(5) Its better feed milk with a sitting position at regular times; each time should be for 15-20 minutes; after that, people should squeeze the left milk out; besides, people should keep the nipples clean and avoid them being played by the infants.

(6) If the milk is too much for the infants to eat, people should squeeze the left milk out after feeding to avoid stasis.

What are the symptoms of nocturnal emission

(1) Hyperactivity of Monarch Fire and Minister Fire:Chief Manifestations: Insomnia with dreamful sleep, nocturnal emission during sleep, accompanied by feverish sensation in the heart, dizziness, blurred vision, listlessness, lassitude, palpitation, fright and forgetfulness, dry mouth, scanty and deep-colored urine, red tongue, and thready, rapid pulse. Continue to learn Chinese medicine Treatment for Nocturnal Emission.
   
(2) Downward Movement of Damp Heat:Chief Manifestations: Frequent seminal emission, radischarge of small amount of seminal fluid during urination, difficult micturition with a burning sensation and eep-colored or dribbling urine, bitter taste in the mouth or thirst, restlessness, insomnia, orolingual ulceration,loose and foul stools, or feeling of oppression and fullness in the chest and abdomen, nausea, yellow, greasy tongue coating, and soft-superficial, rapid pulse.

(3) Inability of Qi to Arrest Semen: Chief Manifestations: Seminal emission due to overwork, palpitation, insomnia, forgetfulness, sallow complexion, weakness and fatigue of the limbs, poor appetite, loose stools, pale tongue with thin coating,thready and weak pulse.
   
(4) Inability to Store Essence due to Kidney Deft-ciency: Chief Manifestations: Frequent nocturnal emission, even spontaneous emission, soreness and weakness of loins and knees, dry throat, restlessness, vertigo, tinnitus, forgetfulness, insomnia, low fever, flushed cheeks, emaciation, night perspiration, loss of hair, odontoseisis, red tongue with little coating, thready and rapid pulse; in some cases with persistent spermatorrhoea, often accompanied by aversion to cold, cold limbs, impotence, premature ejaculation, cold sperm, scanty urine or frequent urination at night, edema, clean or dribbling urine, pale or lusterless complexion, pale, tender teethprinted tongue with white and smooth coating, deep and thready pulse. Continue to learn TCM Treatment Evaluation for Nocturnal Emission.

What are the symptoms of leukorrheal diseases

Leukorrhagia:
(1) Syndrome of spleen asthenia and dampness encumbrance:
Main symptoms: Whitish or light yellow, profuse, odorless and incessant leukorrhea, nausea and anorexia, spiritual lassitude, light-colored and bulgy tongue with white and greasy coating as well as slow and weak pulse.

(2) Syndrome of kidney yin asthenia:
Main symptoms: Yellowish or yellowish and reddish leukorrhea with sticky texture and without odor, burning sensation in the vagina, feverish sensation over the palms, soles and chest, aching in the loins and tinnitus, dizziness and palpitation, red tongue with scanty coating, thin and rapid pulse.

(3) Syndrome of kidney yang asthenia:
Main symptoms: Profuse, thin, or transparent and incessant leukorrhea, aching sensation in the loins, cold sensation in the abdomen, clear and profuse urine, especially in the night, light-colored tongue with thin and white coating, deep and slow pulse. Learn more about Leukorrheal Diseases, please read Leukorrheal Diseases Tablets.

(4) Syndrome of downward migration of damp-heat:
Main symptoms: Profuse, or yellow, or yellowish and reddish leukorrhea like bean dregs or frothy leukorrhea with foul odor, burning sensation and pruritus in the vagina, scanty and brown urine, or accompanied by spasmodic pain in the abdomen, red tongue with yellow and greasy coating soft and rapid pulse.

Scanty leucorrhea:
(1) Syndrome of asthenia of the liver and kidney:
Main syrnptorns: Scanty or even no leukorrhea in the late stage of menstruation or in the ovulatory period, dry sensation in the vagina or accompanied by pudendal pruritus, dizziness and aching sensation in the loins, chest oppression and dysphoria, poor sleep in the night, red tongue with thin and yellow or scanty coating, thin and taut or rapid pulse.

(2) Syndrome of hypofunction of the spleen and stomach:
Main symptoms: Scanty or even no leukorrhea in the late stage of menstruation and ovulatory period, dry sensation in the vagina or accompanied by pudendal pruritus, poor appetite, spiritual lassitude, epigastric and abdominal distension, frequent flatus, or loose stool, lightred tongue with thin, white and greasy coating, and thin pulse.

(3) Syndrome of interior retention of blood stasis:
Main symptoms: Scanty or even no leukorrhea, abdominal pain during menstruation, with purplish and blackish color and large blood clot, lower abdominal pain, chest oppression, dysphoria, thirst with no desire to drink water, dry and squamous skin, deep-red tongue with ecchymoses on the margin, and thin and unsmooth pulse. Continue to read TCM Treatment Evaluation for Leukorrhagia.

Dietary therapy for irregular menstruation

1) Black-bone Chicken and Medlar Soup: it is applicable for irregularity of menstrual cycle.
Ingredients: Black-bone chicken 50g, medlar 15g.
Process: Wash the chicken clean and stew it until it is done. Put in the medlar and cook for another 15 minutes. Take it once a day.

2) Medlar, Lotus Seed and Yam Soup: it is applicable for early menstruation.
Ingredients: Medlar, lotus seed and yam, each is 30g.
Process: Wash the three ingredients clean and stew until it is done. Take it during the week prior to menstruation and 1-2 times a day.

3) Black Edible Fungus and Red Date Soup: it is applicable for delayed menstruation.
Ingredients: Black edible fungus 50g, 20 red dates, brown sugar 50g.
Process: Soak the black edible fungus in the warm and cut down the root. Stew them with the red dates until it is done. Put in the brown sugar and cook for another 10 minutes. Take it during the week prior to menstruation and 1-2 times a day. Continue to read Chinese medicine Treatment for Irregular Menstruation.

4) Drink of Hawthorn Fruit and Brown Sugar
Ingredients: Raw flesh of hawthorn fruit 50g, brown sugar 40g.
Process: Decoct the hawthorn fruit and remove the residue. Put in the brown sugar and drink it when it is hot.
It is applicable for irregular menstruation and helpful to promote blood blow and regulate the menstruation.

5) Motherwort and Chinese-date Soup
Ingredients: 20 Chinese-dates, motherwort 10g, brown sugar 10g.
Process: Stew the ingredients with water. Take it twice a day, morning and night. It is applicable for the delayed menstruation because of cold, menstruation with scanty menses and so on.

6) Ingredients: Angelica sinensis 10g,ginger 10g, sliced mutton 100g.
Process:Boil it until it is done and then put in the salt. Drink the soup and eat the mutton. It is applicable for delayed menstruation with scanty, cold and pain in abdomen etc.

7) Ingredients: Arillus longanae 50g, an egg.
Process: Decoct the Arillus longanae for 30 minutes and then put in the egg. Stew until it is done. Take it twice a day, morning and night. And take it for 10 days continuously. It is applicable for irregular menstruation. Continue to read TCM Treatment Evaluation for Irregular Menstruation.

8) Stewed Pigskin
Ingredients: Pigskin 1000g, yellow rice wine 250ml, white sugar 250g.
Function: It is helpful to nourish blood and yin, invigorate kidney and liver. And it is applicable for blood asthenia and fatigue of women, irregular menstruation and so on. And it is especially good for the people with aching pain in the loins and legs.
Process: Wash the pigskin clean and chop it into pieces. Add moderate water and stew it with low fire until it becomes stiff. Put in the white sugar and yellow rice wine. Infuse it in boiling water and drink it when it is warm.

Typical infertility case analysis

He treated idiopathic male infertility due to oligospermia with acupuncture in coordination with medicine and got the ideal effect. Therapeutic method: Take Clomiphene 25 mg every day for 25 days, then withdraw it for 5 days, and take again. Three months made up one course. Simultaneously, the points located on the abdomen selected were Qihai (CV 6), Zhongji (CV3), Guanyuan (CV 4) (with moxibustion), Jinggong, Sanyinjiao (SP6), Zusanli (ST 36), Shenting (GV 24), Baihui (GV 20); the points located on the back selected were Shenshu (BL23), Mingmen (GV 4) (with moxibustion), Qihaishu (BL 24), Ciliao (BL32), Yaoyangguan (GV 3), Sanyinjiao (SP6), Zusanli (ST 36), Shenting (GV 24), Baihui (GV 20). After evacuating the bladder, the points located on the abdomen were needled with the 75 mm long filiform needles till the acuesthesia transmitted to the root of the urethra.

The acuesthesia of the points located on the back should be better to spread to the buttocks or to the thighs, or to the heels. The needles were manipulated with the reinforcing method achieved by swirling-rotating, and were retained for 30 minutes after the acuesthesia was felt. During the retention, the needles were manipulated once every 15 minutes. The two groups were needled alternately. Give the treatment for 25 days continuously, then stop to rest 3 - 5 days, and puncture again. Consequently, of 54 cases, 30 were cured, 10 were significantly effective, 10 effective, and 4 ineffective. The total effective rate was 92.5 %. After contrasting this group with the medicine group, the significant difference showed between them.

Ban et al reported the treatment of 260 cases of infertility due to abnormal sperm with acupuncture in coordination with Chinese medicine granula. The points selected were as follows:① Mingmen (GV 4), Shenshu (BL23), Ganshu (BL 18), Pishu (BL 20), Yaoyangguan (GV 3), Zhishi (BL52), Baliao points, Taixi (KI3); ② Guanyuan (CV 4), Oihai (CV 6), Zhongji (CV 3), Qugu (CV2), Sanyinjiao (SP6), Zusanli (ST 36), Taichong (LR 3). Six points of each group were selected each time. The points of the two groups were selected alternately. The needles were manipulated with the mild reinforcing-reducing method. Every point was lifted-inserted and swirled-rotated for 30 seconds. The acuesthesia of Guanyuan (CV 4) and Baliao points spread downward, that of Sanyinjiao (SP6) spread upward, and that of all acupoints transmitted to the perineum. The needles were retained for 30 minutes.

The treatment was given at the beginning of the month, once a day, for 15 days, then rested for 15 days. The treatment was given again at the beginning of the next month. Three months made up one course. Composition of Chinese medicine granula, male Bombyx 120 g, Cornu Cervi 100 g, Epimedii Herba 180 g, Penis Callorhini seu Phocae 30 g, Rhizoma RehmanniaePraeparatum 100 g, Semen Cuscutae 110 g, Rhizoma Rolygonati 100 g, Fructus Lycii 90 g, Radix Paeoniae Rubra 60 g, Nidus Vespae 50 g, Semen Impatientis 30 g, frying Squama Manitis 20 g, Radix Bulpleuri 10 g. Grind the above medicinal herbs into fine powder, then divide the powder into 90 shares. Take one share after mixing it with water in the morning and one in the evening. Three months made up one course. Consequently, of 260 cases, 165 were cured, 71 were significantly effective, 8 were improved, and 16 were ineffective. The total effective rate was 93.8%.

Typical case: Guo, a male of 31. The patient suffered from infertility for 6 years since marriage. He always had the symptoms of lumbago, weakness of limbs, poor appetite, sigh, eczema of scrotum. Two times of semen routine examination showed that the sperm count was zero, WBC was. The diagnosis was azoospermia due to spermatogenic dysfunction. Adopt the above points to treat him. Add Radix Codonopsitis 30 g, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae 30 g, Semen Litchi 30 g, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae 30 g, Herba Patriniae 30 g on the above prescription. Grind all medicinal herbs into fine powder and take after mixing them with water. After one course of treatment, the sperm count rose to 2.9 X 107/ ml; after two courses of treatment, the all symptoms eliminated, the sperm count was 6.3 X 107/ml, and the motility of sperm was above 60%. Then adopt Xiaoyao Bolus to consolidate the effect. Ten months later, his wife was pregnant: The next August, his wife gave birth to a boy after a spontaneous labor.

Dietary therapy for hyperplasia of breast

1) Take 50g of soybean, 100g of pork ribs and 2 dried oysters to cook for the soup.

2) Take 15g of donkey-hide gelatin, 100g of hen and 6 red dates to stew for eating.

3) Take 15g of starfish, 2 figs and 100g of lean meat to cook for the soup.

4) Take 10g of jasmine flower and rose respectively to infuse for the tea.

5) Take 250g of crucian, 3 Chinese water chestnuts and one radish to cook for the soup.

6) Take 15g of placenta hominis, 250g of hen, 6 red dates and 15g of Longan to cook for the soup.

7) Gruel of Laver and Crab
Ingredients: Laver 30g, crabs 70g, rice 70g and sliced ginger 10g.
Take the gruel for the breakfast and take it once every another day; 30 doses to be taken continuously.

8) Kelp and Conch Soup
Ingredients: Couch 70g (it also can be replaced by the edible whelk; the couch is mostly produced in the Hainan province of China and which can be brought in the seafood store), kelp 50g (rinse and cut into chunks), lean meat 70g.
Cook all the ingredients for the soup. 10 peppers and 5 sliced gingers can be added for the severe cold days in winter.

9) Kelp, Green Bean and the Seed of Job’s tears Soup
This recipe is suitable to be in hot summer; for the women those work under the high temperature, it can not only prevent the heatstroke but also nourish the breast.
Process: Take 70g of clean kelp, 65g of the raw seed of Job’s tears, 70g of green bean and 70g of the crystal sugar to cook in water for the drink (or preserve it in the refrigerator for the cold drink when it is cool down). Take one dose a day for the whole summer.  Continue to read Chinese medicine Treatment for Mastitis.

10) Sea Cucumber and Black-bone Chicken Soup
This prescription is applicable to the women with weak constitution and helpful to nourish the qi-blood; it is not only good for the protection of breast but also for the prevention of the gynaecology tumour.
Process: Take 96g of soaked sea cucumber, half a black-bone chicken, 35g of Longan, 2 sliced gingers, 5 dried mushrooms and moderate salt to cook for the soup; to be taken in twice a day with the warm water.

Health care methods for hyperlipemia

(1) Drug Therapy
1) Internal Medicine
a. Internal Retention of Phlegm Dampness
Therapeutic Methods: To soothe liver qi, invigorate the spleen and regulate stomach qi.
Prescription: Modified Chaihu Shugan San (Bupleuri Powder for Soothing Liver Qi).

b. Blockage by Phlegm and Blood Stasis
Therapeutic Methods: To dissipate phlegm, relieve stagnation, and promote blood circulation to dredge meridians.
Prescription: Modified Gualou Xiebai Banxia Tang (Decoction of Trichosanthis, Allii Macrostemi and Pinelliae) and Tao Hong Siwu Tang (Four-Ingredient Decoction with Persicae and Carthami)

c. Stagnation of Liver Qi
Therapeutic Methods: To soothe liver qi, invigorate the spleen and regulate stomach qi.
Prescription: Modified Chaihu Shugan San (Bupleuri Powder for Soothing Liver Qi)

d. Deficiency of Spleen Yang and Kidney Yang
Therapeutic Methods: To warm and tonify the spleen and kidney, eliminate dampness and resolve phlegm.
Prescription: Modified Fuzi Lizhong Tang (Aconiti Lateralis Decoction for Regulating Middle Energizer) and Yougui Yin (Decoction for Replenishing Kidney Yang)

e. Deficiency of Liver Yin and Kidney Yin 
Therapeutic Methods: To nourish yin, suppress yang and promote blood circulation.
Prescription: Modified Qi Ju Dihuang Wan (Rehmanniae Bolus with Lycii and Chrysanthemi)

2) External Medicine
Selecting points: Select the main points of the Neiguan, Zusanli, Sanyinjiao, Fenglong, etc. for the external application. Take examination on the total cholesterin (TC) and triacylglycerol (TG) in the blood serum after two courses of the application treatment.

(2) Massage Therapy
Selected points: Zusanli (ST 36), Fenglong (ST 40), Quchi (LI 11), Neiguan (PC6), Sanyinjiao (SP6) and Zhongwan.
Manipulation: Each point for 20 minutes and take once daily for 30 days.

(3) Guasha Therapy
Scraping order:
1) Scrape the Embryo Containing the Information of the Whole Organism on the whole upper part of the back.
2) Copulate main points: Fengchi, Yamen, Jianjing, Tianzhong, Bingfeng (SI 12), Xinshu (BL15), Feishu (BL 13), Pishu (BL20), etc.
3) Copulate extra-points: The part of Huatuojiaji, blood press point, Dingchuan, asthma, Yishu, etc.
4) Scrape the upper projection area of the head and back until the regulating of qi of meridian is finished.

(4) Cupping Therapy
Acupoints selected: Feishu (BL 13), Yinqueshu, Xinshu (BL15), Dushu, Quchi (LI 11), Hegu (LI 4), Jianshi (PC5), Neiguan (PC6), Tongli (HT5), Zusanli (ST 36), Sanyinjiao (SP6), Gongsun (SP4), and Taichong (LR 3).
Methods: People should use cups to suck acupoints mentioned above for 10 minutes once a day.