Friends who have periarthritis of shoulder have a deep understanding of the pain in their shoulders, which also affects their lives very much. They cannot raise their hands up, cannot wear clothes freely, and can't touch their heads! Moreover, sometimes the pain is divided into time. At night, the pain will escalate, but it’s so annoying!
Guizhi Decoction, from Han Dynasty Zhang Zhongjing's " Treatise on Febrile Diseases ", is the first of the prescriptions , and is a classic prescription used to dispel external wind and cold.
Let’s take a look at how to effectively regulate periarthritis of the shoulder with this classic prescription for treating external infection?
Medical case is as follows [1]:
A 50-year-old woman had pain in her right shoulder without obvious causes a month ago, with limited movement, severe pain at night, difficulty moving upward and backward, and a slight wrong position will cause severe pain, which will greatly affect her daily life. If you work a little, you will sweat . If you have a right shoulder is afraid of wind and cold , you need to add more clothes to keep warm locally, and you will not have fever, cough and other symptoms. The diet is good, the second stool is normal, and the sleep is poor at night. Pale tongue, white coating, and slow pulse.
Physical examination: right shoulder tenderness (+), local skin temperature is not high, no redness and swelling, lifting the right shoulder up cannot touch the top of the head, internal rotation and convergence are only lower waist .
was diagnosed with periarthritis of the shoulder. Traditional Chinese medicine syndrome: Yingwei is not in harmony with , wind and cold numbness blocks the qi and blood meridians of the shoulder, causing periarthritis of the shoulder.
treatment: use Guizhi Decoction to add and subtract.
Medicinal composition: cinnamon twig, white peony, roasted licorice , pueraria root, turmeric , ginger, jujube.
After three visits, the patient gradually improved shoulder pain, increased range of movement, and symptoms such as aversion to wind and hyperhidrosis were alleviated. Take 28 doses according to the prescription before and after, and all symptoms are ashamed of loss.
There is a line in the traditional Chinese medicine prescription song "Sun stroke Guizhi Decoction"!
Guizhi Decoction is used for symptoms of solar stroke. The original book records that "the sun has a stroke, and the yang is floating and the yin is weak. If the yang is floating, the heat will spontaneously occur; if the yin is weak, the sweat will come out. The yin is cold, the wind is dripping, and the fever is swelling,... Guizhi Decoction is the main treatment."
Guizhi Decoction has the effect of relieving muscles and harmonizing the Ying and Wei Dynasty. In addition to regulating external wind-cold syndrome, it is also used to regulate miscellaneous diseases mainly caused by fever, body pain, aversion to wind-cold, sweating and other symptoms.
How to understand it?
The Sun meridian is located on the surface of the human body and is mainly used to coordinate the Wei Qi and Ying Blood.
Wei Qi, "Lingshu·Benjing Chapter" says: "Wei Qi is the one that warms the flesh, fills the skin, fertilizes the pores, and carries the opening and closing of the water and grain essence." It is the strong part of the water and grain qi transformed by the essence of water and grain. It can warm and nourish the skin. regulates the opening and closing of sweat pores, maintains the constant body temperature, and can also resist the invasion of external evils such as wind and cold .
Yingqi is the essence of the qi of water and valley and is also one of the components of blood. Therefore, Yingqi and blood are called " Yingyin ". The Yingyin circulates continuously in the meridians, so that nourishes the whole body of .
Wind evil hurts people, gently lifts and opens the pores, and easily opens the pores of the skin, and the human body is prone to symptoms such as aversion to wind, sweating and . If cold evil hurts people, it can easily damage the yang energy, stagnate the blood, and blockage of qi and blood, and pain will occur, and the pain will be fixed.
When external wind and cold invade the Taiyang meridian, the body surface and the body surface are incompatible, the body is incompatible, the Wei Qi is insufficient, the ability to consolidate the control, the Yingyin is leaked, and the body surface meridians are blocked.
The yin here not only refers to blood, but sweat, body fluid, essence, etc. all belong to yin.
Therefore, solar stroke is prone to clinical symptoms such as headache, fever, sweating, and aversion to wind. Although patients with
do not have obvious external infection symptoms, they have shoulder pain, aversion to wind and cold, and prone to sweating. Therefore, Guizhi Decoction is used to adjust it with flavor.
Guizhi Decoction consists of: Guizhi, peony, ginger, jujube, licorice , five flavors of Chinese medicine.
cinnamon twigs are pungent and warm, and can cause sweating and relieve exterior symptoms. Use sweating to disperse external wind and cold evil energy. White peony can astring the yin and combine it with cinnamon twigs to combine it with Weiying and Ying, and treat external wind and cold.
Ginger and jujube, the former can help warm the stomach and dispel cold, while the latter can strengthen the spleen and nourish blood. The two can harmonize the spleen and stomach to help the source of qi and blood production.
White peony tastes sour and is combined with the sweet-tasting licorice. The two are sour and sweet, which transforms the yin into help nourish the yin; the cinnamon twig tastes sour and sweet, which combines with the roasted licorice, which transforms the yang into the yang, which helps to boost qi and blood; roasted licorice can also harmonize various medicines.
Use Guizhi Decoction to disperse wind and cold outside and regulate the Ying and Wei.
In addition, Pueraria root and turmeric are also added.
Pueraria root, everyone should be familiar with it. It is also a medicine to relieve muscle and sweat, disperse external external evils, and relieve strong pain in the neck;
turmeric, promotes qi and breaks blood stasis, unblocks menstruation and relieves pain, so as to clear qi, blood and meridians, and regulates shoulder pain.
This combination of medicine can be used to relieve wind and cold, regulate the Ying and Wei, and eliminate shoulder pain.
warmly reminds everyone that traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions must be comprehensive and dialectical to use medicine based on personal constitution, symptoms, the depth of the disease, etiology and pathogenesis.
This medical case is for popular science only. If you want to adjust your illness, follow the doctor's advice.
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References:
[1] Yang Gongxu. Three medical cases of Guizhi Decoction [J]. Chinese Journal of Orthopedics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2012, 20(05): 56-57.
