What are the symptoms of viral hepatitis

(1) Damp-heat Retention
Chief Manifestations: Bright yellow coloration of the face, sclera and skin, fever, thirst, lassitude, poor appetite, dark yellow urine, constipation, yellow and greasy tongue coating, wiry and rapid or soft-superficial and rapid pulse. 

(2) Dampness Stagnation in the Spleen
Chief Manifestations: Epigastric oppression, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, fatigue, hypochondriac pain, or jaundice in the face, sclera and skin, loose stools, tastelessness or stickiness in the mouth, greasy, white and yellowish tongue coating, and soft-superficial and smooth pulse.
   
(3) Stagnation of Liver Qi
Chief Manifestations:Distension, oppression and pain in the chest and hypochondrium, epigastric fullness,abdominal distension, frequent belching and wind from the bowels, poor appetite, bitter taste in the mouth, thin, white or yellow tongue coating, and wiry pulse. Continue to read Chinese medicine Treatment for Viral Hepatitis.

(4) Obstruction of the Collaterals by Blood Stasis
Chief Manifestations:Dark dusty complexion or vascular spiders, hepatosplenomegaly with hard texture, stabbing pain in the hypochondria, bright red palms, frequent nasal and gingival hemorrhage, low fever aggravated at night, dysmenorrhea with dark-colored clots in female patients, dark purple tongue with ecchymoses,deep, thready and unsmooth pulse.

(5) Deficiency of the Liver and Spleen
Chief Manifestations: Shortness of breath, dislike of speaking, lassitude, lusterless complexion, impaired appetite, abdominal distension after intake of food, dull pain in the hypochondrium, dizziness, dryness and pain of eyes, emaciation or puffy face, occasional loose stools, pale tongue with white coating, and thready and weak pulse.

(6) Deficiency of Liver Yin and Kidney Yin
Chief Manifestations: Dull pain in the hypochondrium which is aggravated by exertion, dizziness, tinnitus, dryness and pain of eyes, dry mouth and throat, insomnia, dreamfulness, feverish sensation in the chest,palms and soles, soreness and weakness in the loins and knees, hypomenorrhea or amenorrhea in female patients, red small tongue with little saliva or with cracks, thin coating, thready and rapid pulse.

(7) Deficiency of Spleen Yang and Kidney Yang
Chief Manifestations: Intolerance of cold and preference for warmth, cold limbs, cold pain in the lower abdomen, loins and knees, lassitude, dull pain in the hypochondrium, impaired appetite, loose stools with undigested food, even frequent diarrhea or fecal incontinence, abdominal fullness, scanty urine, no edema of the lower limbs, pale and swollen tongue, deep, thready and forceless pulse, or deep and slow pulse. Continue to read TCM Treatment Evaluation for Viral Hepatitis.

Functional exercise for trachoma

(1) Do eye exercises everyday to improve blood circulation and regulating state of eyes. 

(2) Insist on physical exercises, especially for outdoor exercises. 

(3) Find a grassland or greenery with more than 10m. The green can relax eyes and ciliaris to relieve eyestrain due to green has short wavelength and form image before retina. 

(4) Find a place with fresh air, sit down or stand up with whole body relax, keep two eyes look forward, breath in slowly with eyes opened, stop for a while, then breath out slowly with eyes closed, repeat it for 9 times. Continue to read Chinese medicine Treatment for Trachoma.

(5) Apply eyes: it’s better to adopt sitting position with whole body relaxed and eyes closed, then rub two palms quickly until they are hot, then apply hot palms to both eyes until palms become cold, take away palms, at the same time, open two eyes forcibly, repeat it for 3-5 times. It can improve blood circulation of the eyes and enhance metabolism. 

(6) Keep quiet to protect eyes: Sit down with whole body relaxed and eyes closed, put both hands on the knee, keep the palms upward (downward for cardio-cerebrovascular patients), imagine that you are in the atmosphere and qi is in your whole body, the unity of nature and humanity, and qi severs for you, rest quietly to recuperate for 15 minutes, then open eyes slowly, take three deep breath until qi sinks down to Dantian, twice a day, in the morning and in the evening.

What are the symptoms of sore throat

1) External attack by wind and heat: Red swelling and pain in the throat, dysphagia, cough, fever, headache, floating and rapid pulse. 

2) Asthenia of the spleen and stomach: Sensation of obstruction or adhering phlegm, the throat is dry with little pain, dry mouth but with no desire to drink or like hot drinks, nausea, vomiting, or with hiccup and sour regurgitation sometimes; If people catches cold, feels tired and with polyphrasia, then the symptoms are aggravated. And people is easily to catch a cold and with lassitude, weak, shortness of breath and is sluggish to talk, easily to sweat, bad appetite or abdominal distension, irregular bowel movement with viscous or hard stool, light red tongue with imprints of the teeth on the edge, thin and white greasy coating, thready and weak pulse. Continue to learn Chinese Medicine Treatment for Chronic Laryngitis.

3) Yin deficiency of the liver and kidney: Dry and burn throat with little pain, with sensation of obstruction or adhering phlegm, dizzy, vertigo, tinnitus, forgettery, sour in the loins and knees, hectic fever, red lip, flushing of zygomatic region, fever in chestpalms-soles, red tongue with little caoting, thready and rapid pulse.

How to prevent rheumatoid arthritis

1) The house for living should be ventilation and sunny, keep the air fresh in it. Avoid dosing on the cement floor and in draught.

2) It is better to wash face and rinse teeth with the warm water and get the feet in the water with the washing recipe of traditional Chinese medicine. It is not only helpful to promote the blood circulation of the lower limbs and also to expel swelling pain and remove dampness. Continue to learn Chinese medicine treatment for Arthritis.

3) If there are the symptoms of obvious red, swelling, fever and pain during the period of acute attack of the rheumatism, people should lie in bed for 2-3 weeks. And for the patients with kidney deficiency and lumbar spondylosis, the sexual life should be avoided.

4) People should avoid cold, getting wet in the rain and being affected with damp; keep the joints warm and avoid with wet cloths, wet shoes and wet stocks; Avoid overconsumption of cold foods and drinks in hot summer; even there’s a dry climate in the fall but the wind is strong, so people should avoid the attacking of the wind cold; keep warm is most important in cold winter.

5) Keep a regulate diet and life and with a balance between the rest and work are the main measure to strengthen physical health; clinically, the disease may be aggravated or recrudesced due to overwork during the convalescence even the disease is under control for some patients with rheumatoid arthritis. So people should keep a balance between the rest and work.

6) Keep a normal mentation is very important for maintaining of body’s normal immunologic function. Continue to learn TCM Treatment Evaluation for Rheumatic Arthritis.

7) With a bland and digestible diet which is with massive vitamin, high protein and low fat; it is better to eat more eggs, bean food, lean meat, bone soup, fungoid , fresh vegetables and fruit. Avoid spicy, fatty, sour and cold food.

How TCM diagnoses chronic diseases

(1) High-salt diet: The World Health Organization (WHO) stipulates that daily salt intake for an adult should be controlled below 6 grams. Diet with excessive amount of salt is called high-salt diet.

(2) Smoking. China is the largest consumer of tobacco in the world. Smoking can lead to lung cancer, cardiovascular diseases and other various diseases.

(3) Excessive drinking behavior. Brain and liver are the most productive organs in body's metabolism, and they can be affected by alcohol easily. Chronic alcoholism can lead to serious psychological and behavioral disorders and also cause fatty liver, cirrhosis, liver cancer. Continue to learn Chinese medicine Treatment for Cirrhosis.

(4) Obesity behavior refers to the habits causing obesity. It is characterized by irrational diet, high-calorie, consumption less than absorption, lack of exercise, eating too much for compensation while in tension.

(5) Psychologically, a number of people, who can be irritable easily, excited and pursuing the perfection, prone to suffering from cardiovascular diseases, because the content of catecholamine in these people’s blood and urine is higher than the normal one. So, these kinds of people have greater risk in suffering hypertension, angiosclerosis, and coronary heart disease. In addiction, the incidence of myocardial infarction of these people is 3 to 4 times higher than the normal ones. People with depression, sulk, a sense of loneliness or helplessness, can suffer from low immunity system function and cancer.

(6) The low aging tendency of chronic diseases. The experts show that in the past decade, young people's diet has been changed tremendously. Many factors lead to obesity among teenagers, such as increase of sugar, fat and salt intake with the decreased amount of exercises. Obesity can increase the morbidity of heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and other major chronic diseases. Nowadays, many teenagers are fond of smoking, drinking, eating foods with high-sugar, high-fat and  fast foods. Many children stay at home and chat or play games on the Internet, at the same time, lack of exercises and only have a gym class to exercise in the school because of the full arrange of examination-oriented education curriculum.

Health care methods for otitis media

External Medicine
Drip 20 to 30% Goldthread (or Phellodendron) Ear Drops into the ear, three drops each time, twice to three times a day. It is applicable for suppurative tympanitis of acute and chronic type.
Pound the fresh Hu'ercao ( Herba Saxifragae ) to paste to draw the juice. Drip the juice into the ear, three drops once, twice or three times a day. It is applicable for acute and suppurative tympanitis.

Acupoints Massage
(1) Massaging tympanic membrane:The method originated from Vol. 27 of the book Jingyue Quanshu ( Zhang Jingyue's Complete Works ). Plug the middle finger into the opening of the external auditory canal and press it gently. Press it once and release the finger once. This is one cycle. Repeat the cycle on the both sides for 15 to 30 times respectively, three times a day. Or use the middle finger tip to shake the internal auditory canal for dozens of times. The method can massage the tympanic membrane and promote qi flow as well as blood circulation. It also has positive effects on the restoration of hearing.

(2) Blowing air to remove obstruction of orifices:The method originated from the book Baosheng Miyao (Secrets of Health Preservation). Hold the nostrils firmly between the thumb and index finger of the right hand without releasing. Meanwhile, make the action of blowing the nose but still hold the nostrils firmly between the fingers. In this way, air flow will rush into the auditory tube of the nasopharynx. The method can relieve the symptoms of otic distension and obstruction. Do it three times a day. Continue to read Chinese Medicine Treatment for Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media.

(3) Beating the drum:The method originated from the General Introduction to the Twelve-section Brocade of the book Diagrams of Internal Qigong. Regulate respiration first. Then, press the occipital region symmetrically and horizontally with the index fingers, middle fingers, ring fingers and little fingers of both hands. The two middle fingers touch each other. At this time, stick up the index fingers and place them on the middle fingers oftheirrespectivehandsoverlappingly. Next, flick the index fingers off the middle fingers to strike the occipital bone forcefully. At this time,the patient can hear the loud and clear sound like beating drum, hence the name beating drum. Do it for 24 times respectively with the left and right hands.Afterwards, do it for 48 times with both hands simultaneously. The method also dredges meridians and collaterals, promotes qi flow and blood circulation.

Cupping Therapy
Acupoints selected: Main acupoints: Tinggong (SI 19), Ermen (SJ 21), Waiguan (TE5). Matching acupoints: Patients with effulgent liver-gallbladder fire, add Xingjian (LR2), Taichong (LR 3), Zulinqi (GB41); Patients with external contraction wind-fire, add Dazhui (GV14), Hegu (LI 4); Patients with kidney deficiency, add Shenshu (BL23), Mingmen (DU4), Taixi (KI3).
Manipulation: 1) Ask the patients to adopt side-lying position, regularly sterilize to the acupoints, apply quick puncture with triangular needle to the acupints for 2-3 times, then cupping to the acupoints quickly, retained for 10-15 minutes, until the local red congestion or right amount of bleeding occurs.
2) Apply quick puncture with triangular needle to swollen blood collaterals near the Tinggong (SI 19) and Ermen (SJ 21) until bleeding.
3) Treat one time every other day, 10 times as a course of treatment.

Foot Massage 
Basic reflection areas: ears, labyrinth of the inner ears.
Related reflection areas: cerebrum, trigeminal.
Symptom reflection areas: live, spleen, lymph node of the upper body.
Reflexotherapy is taken up of 10-15 times as a course of treatment, 30-40 times each time, 1-2 times each day, repeat it after 1-2 days. Soak both feet with light salt water to recover the sensitivity of feet to massage.

Tuina Therapy for obesity

Tuina Therapy
The principle of Tuina Therapy is reinforcing function of the spleen and the stomach, removing phlegm and dampness.
(1) The patient lies on his back. The doctor stands by his side, place one palm or the overlapped palms on the patient’s umbilicus, and rubs his abdomen slightly forcefully clockwise and counterclockwise with the circle from small to large, then from large to small for 5 minutes respectively.

(2) Lift-grasp the muscles around Zhongwan(CV12) with the fingers of one hand and the muscles around Qihaishu (BL24) with those of other hand. The lifted and prasped area should be properly large enough and the force used should be penetrating. Finger-twisting and pressing actions can be added while lifting up, but the putting-down action should be slow. Repeat the procedure for 20-30 times.

(3) The patient sits. And the doctor stands behind him, grasps his abdominal muscles from under both hypochondria with both hands, and then relaxes them. Grasping and relaxing are alternately done. While gasping up, finger-twisting and pressing actions should be added with a little more fore, in the meantime, the doctor’s hands are gradually moving upwards and downwards respectively. Repeat the operations for 20 times.

(4) Push-rub forcefully from the hypochondria toward the abdomen with the two palms until a hot sensation is gained.

(5) Scrub the shoulders, the back and the lumbosacral region with a palm until a hot sensation is attained, and pat from top to below with a hollow palm for 1-3 times.

(6) The patient takes a prone position. The doctor applies grasping manipulation to the muscles of the four limbs, or pinches and grasps or presses and kneads them properly.

(7) Press-knead and pluck Hegu (LI 4), Zusanli (ST 36) and Fenglong (ST 40) for one minute respectively.

Modified manipulations with syndrome differentiation
1. For patients with obesity accompanied by asthma and palpitation, the following may also be used besides the basic manipulations.
(1) Press-knead Danzhong(CV17) and point Feimen (Ex) for one minute each.

(2) Press-knead Waiguan (TE5) and Shenmen (HT 7) for one munite each.

(3) Press-knead Pishu (BL20), Weishu (BL21) and Sanjiaoshu (BL22) for one minute each.

(4) Scrub transversely the superior part of the chest until a hot sensation is gained.

2. For patients with obesity accompanied by dizziness, insomnia and constipation, the following methods can be used additionally.
(1) Press-knead Yinyang (EX-HN3), Taiyang (EX- HN 5) and Baihui (BL9) for one minute each.

(2) Press-knead Hegu (LI 4) and Quchi (LI 11) cooperated with plucking for 1-3 minutes respectively.

(3) Palm-twist and rub the two hypochondria for 3-5 minutes.

(4) Press-knead with the hand and press with the elbow the buttocks and Huantiao(GB30) for 1-3 minutes.
Prevention is very important in avoiding incidence of obesity. On one hand, one can start from his diet, and avoids taking excessive calorie from foods. On other hand, one can do proper exercises in daily life. For those who has the problem of obesity, besides Tuina therapy