Functional exercise for gastroptosis

1) Take exercises positively such as walking, Qigong, Taiji, etc.

2) Exercise of abdominal muscle: keep a supine position and unbend the legs; raise them up and then put down; repeat the movements for several times; people also can simulate the movements of riding bikes; or take crouching after eating.

3) Abdominal respiration: Hunch the abdomen when inhaling and sink it when exhaling; repeat the movements for several times. Continue to learn TCM Treatment Evaluation for Stomachache.

4) Massage the abdomen: lying supine with the knees bent; press and knead the abdomen with the right hand for 10 minutes after the exercise.

5) Lying in bed for 20-30 minutes and with a position of the head in a low position and the pelvis on a higher place; then move the stomach upwards.

6) The most suitable exercises for treating gastroptosis are the calisthenics, horizontal bar, parallel bars, swimming, etc. These exercises are beneficial for increasing the force of the napes muscle and strengthening the tensity of the gastrointestinal muscle; the exercise can be chosen according to the individual condition and the amount of it should be increased gradually; besides, it should be taken in a persistent way.

What're the folk recipes for frozen shoulder

(1) Handling the scapulohumeral periarthritis with plastic
Method: Shear the white plastic or taker-bag into one larger than the affected area, and cover it on the shoulder after droping some drops of water on it. Do it for long term. On the outbreak of the disease, changimg the plastic or taker-bag every 2-3 days is effective for the scapulohumeral periarthritis. (Patients who are allergic to plastic should be cautious about this prescription)

(2) Puree of ginger and onion for treating scapulohumeral periarthritis
Method: Mash up 250-400g of ginger and onion respectively, stir-fry them with mild fire first and then stir-fry with thick white spirit. Apply the hot paste on the painful area before asleep (based on accepting temperature) and wrap them tightly with towel or a strip of cloth. Take the paste off on the next day morning and re-stir-fry the paste in the evening and apply to the painful area. Usually, a dose of the prescription could be applied for 3-4 nights. Continue to read Chinese medicine Treatment for Frozen Shoulder.

(3) Hot salt for treating scapulohumeral periarthritis
Method: Stir-fry 500g of crude salt, put them into a cloth bag and tie the bag tightly(do not let the salt leak out), and then burn the shoulder with that hot cloth bag. This prescription is perfect for the early stage of the disease while with less effect for later stage.

(4) Puree of crab for treating scapulohumeral periarthritis
Method: Soak three crabs for half a day, making them discharge the mud in them stomach. Mash them up into puree and put the puree onto a cloth with the diameter within 8cm, then apply the cloth on the painful area in the evening and take it off the next day morning. The pain would disappear gradually after 2-3 times. Continue to read TCM Treatment Evaluation for Frozen Shoulder.

Health care methods for diarrhea

External medicine
a. Grind 1-2 white pepper into powder, apply to the umbilicus, cover it with gauze and fix it with adhesive tape, once a day, continue apply for 2-3 days.

b. Pharmacotherapy for adult: consist of 15 ingredients: Acanthopanacis Radicis Cortex, Homalomenae Rhizoma, Ledebouriellae Radix, Speranskiae seu Impatientis Herba, Paeoniae Radix Rubra, Angelicae Duhuo Radix, Artemisiae Argyi Folium, Loranthi Ramus, Olibanum, Myrrha, Carthami Flos, Angelicae Sinensis Radicis Extremitas, Zanthoxyli Pericarpium, Rhizoma seu Radix Notopterygii, Daemonoropis Draconis Resina.
Method: Cover all the above ingredients in a cloth, then steam it for 30 minutes, apply externally to middle and lower abdomen for 30 minutes, once a day, 15 days as a course of treatment, cure 1-3 courses of treatment.

c. Selected parts include Qizhong (CV8), abdomen and the center of the feet. Qizhong (CV8) also named Shenque (CV8), the abdomen is the large scale, which in the center of Shenque (CV8). The center of feet is Yongquan (K11). Prescription: Grind Atractylodis Rhizoma and Cinamomi Cortex into powder respectively, mix powder 1:1, then mix with wine to make paste, put the paste into the umbilicus for 24 hours.

d. Grind right amount of Caryophylli Flos and Cinamomi Cortex into powder, apply 2-3g of it to Shenque (CV8) once, fix it with adhesive tape, change the prescription for every 8 hours, three times as a course of treatment. Infant and nannie should avoid eating greasy and undigested foods during the treatment.

(2) Acupoints Massage
Adopt sitting or a supine position, massage twice a day, 5 days as a course of treatment.
1) Supplement Pitu: Pitu also named Pijing, which is on the red-white border of the radial surface of the thumbs, the straight line from the finger tip to the end. The doctor pinch the infant thumb by forefinger and thumb of the left hand, apply pushing manipulation from the infantile border of the radial surface of the thumbs to the palm root by finger pulp of the right hand for 500 times. It can tonify the spleen and the stomach.

2) Knead Banmen: Location: On the flat area of the major thenar eminence of palm. The doctor rotate knead infantile great thenar by the finger pulp of the right thumb for 200 times. It can clear foods stagnation, stop bleeding and eliminate distention.

3) Knead Neibagua: Location: On palm surface. Taking the center of the palm as the center of a circle and 2/3 from the center of the circle to the cross striation of the middle finger as the radius, draw a circle. The circle is Neibagua. The doctor kneads infantile finger by the left hand, do the circle movement on the center of the palm of the infant by the left thumb, push for 3-5 minutes. It can clear heat and detoxicate and relieve diarrhea.

4) Massage abdomen: do the circle movement on the infantile abdomen by the four finger pulps for 5 minutes. It can disperse food, eliminate distention and relieve diarrhea.

5) Press and knead Zusanli (ST 36): 3 cun below Oubi (ST35), one finger-breadth from the anterior crest of the tibia. The doctor kneads the Zusanli (ST 36) for 3-5 minutes by the forefinger pulps of the thumb or middle finger.

6) Pinch spinal column: when pinching the spinal column, focus on the infantile vertebral column and its two sides. The spinal column belongs to the Du meridian in TCM, control yang of hold body. Pinching the spinal column can regulate yin and yang, strengthen the spleen and tonify the kidney. When manipulating, the doctor press the Changqiang (GV 1) by the forefingers of both hands, then push from Changqiang (GV 1) to Dazhui (DU14), at the same time, apply pressing, pinching and twirling manipulation on the spinal column for 6 times by thumbs of both hands. When in the fifth times of manipulation, apply pinching and raising manipulation to Pishu (BL20), Weishu (BL21) and Geshu (BL17). After the sixth times of manipulation, knead gently on the Shenshu (BL23) for three times by thumbs of both hands. The kneading therapy can be practiced in the morning after get up or in the morning for 3-5 minutes, which can get a better effect. 

(3) Guasha Therapy
1) Back: Du meridian, from Dazhui (DU14) to Xuanshu (DU5), bilateral from Pishu (BL20) to Sanjiaoshu (BL22). Stomach: Ren meridian: from Zhongwan (RN12) to Qihaishu (BL24), bilateral Tianshu (ST25), Zhangmen (LR 13), Sifeng (EX- UE 10) and Zusanli (ST 36).

2) Manipulation: Hold the Guasha board, keep 45° with the skin, apply to the above acupoints with gentle force from top to bottom or from inner to outside until a local light red skin occurs. It can boost qi and strengthen the spleen.

(4) Cupping Therapy
Location cupped and methods:
Acupoints selected:
1. Tianshu, Zhongwan, Qihaishu (BL24), Hegu (LI 4), Zusanli (ST 36), Shangjuxu (ST 37), Sanyinjiao (SP6)
2. Pishu (BL20), Weishu (BL21), Shenshu (BL23), Dachangshu (BL25)
Method: you should let acute diarrhea sufferer lie down on his back and select the moderate cups to cup on the acupoints of Group One for 10-15 minutes one time a day. It takes three times as a circle.
The patient who suffers from chronic bacillary diarrhea should be cupped properly. In other words, you should choose proper posture of the patient as well the cups and then get the acupoints cupped for 10-15 minutes 2-3times a week. Caution that ten times consisting of one course of treatment and you should rest for one week between two courses.

(5) Pedicure
1) Basic reflection areas: stomach, intestines, spleen.
Related reflection areas: brain, solar plexus.
Symptom reflection areas: thoracic diaphragm, lymph node on the upper and lower limbs.
Reflexotherapy take 10-15 times as a course of treatment, 30-40 minutes fir each time, 1-2 times each day, repeat it after 1-2 days. Soak both feet with light salt water to recover the feet sensitive to massage.

2) Pedicure prescription:
INGREDIENTS: Lablab Semen(100g), Radix Puerariae (Gegen)50g, Semen Plantaginis (Cheqianzi) 150g
PROCESS: Decoct all the above ingredients in water for 20 minutes, then pour the decoction into the basin, soak both feet into the decoction when it’s warm. The decoction should be kept in 30 ℃, add hot water if it become cold, 2-3 times a day.

Treat diarrhea by Chinese herbs:
a. Stimulate the accupoints on the feet by warming and rubbing therapy, so as to smooth the meridian-qi movement, strengthen and tonify spleen and stomach.
b. Though the absorption of the herbs to take effect of viscera regulation. The combination of both can play a good antidiarrheal effect.

What are the symptoms of eczema

1. Syndrome of Infiltration of Dampness and Heat
Main Symptoms: Sudden onset, skin lesions spreading on the whole body, flushed and burning sensation, discharge of suppurative fluid, lingering pruritus, accompanied by feverish sensation in the body, vexation, thirst, dry stool, scanty and brown urine, reddened tongue, yellowish or yellow-greasy coating, slippery or rapid pulse.

2. Syndrome of Accumulation of Dampness due to Spleen Deficiency
Main Symptoms: Slow onset, skin lesions in flushed color, pruritus, erosive effusion after scratch, scale and crust, accompanied by poor appetite, low spirit, abdominal distension, loose stool, pale and flabby tongue, whitish or white-greasy coating, and soft pulse. Continue to learn Chinese medicine Treatment for Eczema.

3. Syndrome of Blood Deficiency and Wind-Dryness

Main Symptoms: Dark color or pigmentation in skin lesions after long duration, serious pruritus, or coarse and hypertrophic skin lesions with scratching marks and bloody crust, accompanied by dry mouth, low spirit, poor sleep, pale tongue, whitish coating, thready or wiry and thready pulse.

Definition of coronary heart disease in TCM

Coronary arteriosclerotic cardiopathy, called coronary heart disease (CHD) for short, is characterized by paroxysmal oppressed sensation or pain in the chest, pale complexion, anxiety or irritability, palpitation, shortness of breath, and severe pain with sweating. Clinically it is manifested as latent CHD, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, myocardial sclerosis and sudden death. Among them angina pectoris and myocardial infarction are most commonly encountered. CHD often occurs among the people aged above forty. More males suffer from this disease than females and most patients are mental workers. Nowadays, it is one of the most common heart diseases in Europe and America, and about 5.7 millions in U. S. A. (2.5% of the population) suffer from this disease. In China its incidence is increasing in recent years and it has become one of the most dangerous diseases threatening people's lives.

The disease is associated with hypertension, hyper-lipidemia, diabetes, obesity, cigarette smoking, and social and psychological factors. As atheromatous plaque formed in the inner wall of coronary artery causes stenosis or obstruction of the blood vessel and block of blood flow, and results in myocardial ischemia, hypoxia and even necrosis, the disease is also called ischaemic heart disease. About 90 % of CHDs result from coronary atheroclerosis and about 5 %- 10% from coronary vasospasm. Click to read TCM Treatment for Coronary Arteriosclerotic Cardiopathy.

According to the clinical manifestations, it belongs the categories of "xiong bi" (thoracic obstruction of qi), "xin tong" (cardialgia), "xin ji" (palpitation), "jue xin tong" (precordial pain with cold limbs) and "zhen xin tong" (angina pectoris) in TCM. Its pathogenic factors include inward attack of exogenous pathogenic cold, improper diet, emotional disharmony, and aging and debility. Its pathogenesis is involved with the deficiency and excess. The former refers to deficiency of the heart, spleen and kidney and nutritional deficiency of blood vessel; the latter to stagnation of cold, qi and blood, and phlegm obstructing pectoral yang and heart vessels. If the blockage of heart vessels by blood stasis occurs, it may give rise to myocardial infarction and the prognosis may be unfavorable.

What're the folk recipes for chronic gastritis

1) Drink of Tangerine Peel with Additions (Fufang Jupi
INGREDIENTS:
Tangerine peel, Pericarpium Cirri" Reticulatae (which must be cut into threads) 6g
Finger citron, Fructus Cirri" Sarcodactylis (which must be cut into threads) 6g
Rose, Flos Rosae Rugosae 3g
PROCESS: Infuse all the three ingredients in boiling water.
DIRECTIONS: To be taken as a drink.  Its indications are the same as those of Gruel Activating Q i and Promoting Digestion.

2) Body acupuncture
Prescription: Zhongwan (CV 12), Neiguan (PC6), Gongsun (SP4), Liangmen (ST21) and Zusanli (ST 36).
Modification: For liver qi invading the stomach, Taichong (LR 3), Qimen (LR 14) and Ganshu (BL 18) are added; for asthenia-cold in the spleen and stomach, Pishu (BL20) and Weishu (BL21) are added; for insufficiency of stomach yin, Taixi (KI3) and Sanyinjiao (SP6) are added; for stagnation of blood in the collaterals, Xuehai (SP 10) and Geshu (BL17)are added; for stomach heat, Neiting (ST44) is added; for fullness and distension in the epigastrium and abdomen, Zhangmen (LR 13), Burong (ST 19) and Pishu (BL20) are added.
   
Performance: For liver qi invading the stomach and stagnation of blood in the collaterals, mild reducing and reinforcing needling techniques or reducing needling technique can be used; for asthenia-cold in the spleen and stomach and insufficiency of stomach yin, reinforcing needling technique can be used.  For the treatment of asthenia-cold syndrome, moxibustion can be used in addition.

3) Ear acupuncture
Prescription: Stomach (CO4), Spleen (CO13), Liver (CO12), Triple Energizer (CO17), Sympathetic (AH6a), Ear Shenmen (TF4) and Subcortical (AT4).
Performance: Each time 2 - 3 acupoints is selected. The needles are retained for 30 minutes and manipulated at intervals. Or electropuncture may be used. Or Wangbuliuxingzi (Semen Vaccariae) can be used for ear pressure. Two ears are needled in alternation.

How TCM diagnoses cirrhosis

(1) Mild symptoms are manifested during compensatory phase as fatigue, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, discomfort in the epigastrium, dull pain in the right epigastrium, abdominal distension and diarrhea. The chief manifestations of decompensatory phase are poor appetite, emaciation, lassitude, diarrhea, epigastric pain, low fever, abdominal distension, hemorrhage and neuropsychic symptoms.

(2) During compensatory phase, there are no obvious physical signs but hepatomegaly may be present. Some patients may also suffer from splenomegaly accompanied by vascular spider and liver palms. But during decompensatory phase, there are manifestations as darker complexion, jaundice, fever, varicose veins of abdominal wall, ascites, hydrothorax, moderate splenomegaly, enlargement or shrinkage of the liver, gynecomastia and sparsity of pubic hair in males, scanty menstruation or amenorrhea in females, bleeding of skin and mucosa, emaciation, anemia, edema and angular stomatitis.

(3) Anemia, decrease in white blood cell and blood platelet count can be found in blood routine examination;in liver function test, increase in aminotransferase, serum bilirubin and globulin, and decrease in albumin can be found.

(4) Ultrasonography B shows that hepatic echo grows stronger, coarser and uneven. Hepatomegaly is manifested at the early stage of the disease and hepatic shrinkage at the later stage. The surface of the liver is rough, serrate and wavy. Splenic shadow becomes larger; splenic veins thicker and curved; and portal vein thickened.

(5) Hepatic biopsy shows the histological type of hepatocirrhosis, as well as the degree of hepatic cells damage and formation of connective tissue. Continue to read Chinese medicine Treatment for Cirrhosis.