Frequent cough and asthma, adjust acupuncture points Replenish the lungs Spleen and kidneys
Medical guidance: Traditional Chinese Medicine Specialty Treatment Clinic Chen Xinghua, chief TCM physician
Article/Reporter from the Elderly News Chen Xiaokun
Uncle Zhang, who has been smoking for 20 years, smokes almost every day. Recently, Uncle Zhang has felt that his symptoms of coughing and chest tightness have become more and more serious. In addition, he often coughs up phlegm and is out of breath even when he goes upstairs. Accompanied by his family, Uncle Zhang went to the hospital for treatment and found out that he was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Smoking is the main cause
Chen Xinghua, a traditional Chinese medicine physician and director of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Specialty Treatment Clinic of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, said that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease characterized by persistent airflow limitation. In disease , airflow limitation is not completely reversible and develops progressively. It mainly affects the lungs and can also cause damage to various organs outside the lungs.
"COPD is the result of the long-term interaction between a variety of environmental factors and the body's own factors, such as smoking, occupational dust and chemicals, environmental pollution, infectious factors, etc. Among them, smoking is the main cause." Chen Xinghua analyzed.
Regulating and nourishing the three internal organs, symptomatic treatment of cough and asthma
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease belongs to the categories of " lung distension", " asthma syndrome" and "asthma syndrome". When COPD attacks repeatedly and lingers, it will lead to dysfunction of the lungs, spleen, and kidneys. The lungs will be distended and cannot be reduced, which will cause cough, phlegm, and wheezing, with repeated attacks.
In the treatment of COPD, symptomatic treatment should first be carried out for the lungs, spleen and kidneys, such as using Dingchuan, Feishu, Zusanli , Shenshu and other acupuncture points according to syndrome differentiation, and performing massage, acupuncture and other external treatments.
Feishu is the backshu point of the lung, which has the effect of clearing the lungs, relieving asthma, widening the chest and regulating qi.
Positioning: is in the spinal area, below the spinous process of the 3rd 4th thoracic vertebra, 1.5 inches lateral to the posterior midline.
Zusanli Frequent moxibustion Zusanli point can strengthen the function of the spleen and stomach and make the body's righteousness strong.
Positioning: is on the outside of the calf, is 3 inches below the calf's nose and , 1 finger transversely outside the anterior crest of the tibia, on the line connecting the calf's nose and Jiexi.
Dingchuan has the functions of relieving cough and asthma, relieving lungs and regulating qi, and is used clinically to regulate various lung diseases. When the cough doesn't stop, pressing and rubbing the Dingchuan point appropriately can quickly relieve the symptoms.
positioning: is in the spinal area, horizontally below the spinous process of the 7th cervical vertebra, 0.5 inches lateral to the posterior midline.
Shenshu Because "the lung is the mother of the kidneys, and the kidney is the son of the lungs", massaging the Shenshu point tonifies the kidneys, which embodies the principle of "the mutual growth of metal and water".
positioning: is in the spinal area, under the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra, 1.5 inches lateral to the posterior midline.
Editor: Liu Qingjun
Review: Zheng Xiaoying, Yang Yan Editor: Zhong Tiansong
