Traditional Chinese medicine teaches you to stay away from strokes

November 01, 2017 source: Beijing morning post

      As we all know, cerebrovascular disease is a common disease and disease that seriously endangers human health. It is characterized by high morbidity, high disability rate, high mortality rate and high recurrence rate. Cerebral apoplexy is especially harmful in cerebrovascular diseases. In 2016, the report on the prevention and control of stroke in China showed that the number of new stroke patients in China was more than 2 million. As many as 1.8 million people die from stroke each year, and most of the survivors also cause disability, which is a burden to families and society.

      Stroke is what we often call a stroke. In recent years, the death rate of stroke in young people has also shown an upward trend, which is undoubtedly a wake-up call. East side, said, director of the hospital of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture expert Zhou Zhenkun stroke by a few big high risk factors, smoking first, followed by the spirit of high tension, lower levels, high blood pressure, alcohol, etc. In stroke treatment, acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine of traditional Chinese medicine as an important treatment of current clinical stroke in primary prevention measures, with the concept of "before disease cure", through targeted therapeutic intervention, reduce stroke risk factors of human potential, thus reducing the onset of the crowd.

Bad habits such as smoking can easily trigger strokes

      According to the world health organization, one in every six people in all over the world people may suffer from stroke, every 6 seconds have 1 people died of cerebral apoplexy, have one person every 6 seconds for cerebral apoplexy and permanent disability. Apoplexy has become the first cause of death in our country and is called the "first killer".

      There are many causes of stroke, including high blood pressure, diabetes, high blood lipids, etc., which are the risk factors for stroke. These factors are also well known and can be regarded by the public. However, there is another important aspect -- an unhealthy lifestyle that is also an important risk factor for stroke.

      The diet characteristics of Chinese residents are high in fat consumption, salt intakes, fruit and vegetable intake are not enough, which is one of the reasons for the high incidence of cardiovascular disease. At the same time, there are 350 million smokers in our country, the trend of low age of smoking and 50 percent of the population suffer from passive smoking. There are more than 3800 chemicals in tobacco smoke, which can cause blood vessels to contract and trigger vasospasm, the second most dangerous factor in myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction.

      However, these risk factors are not uncontrollable. The study suggests that long-term control over risk factors can be prevented by most stroke. Among them, maintaining a good lifestyle can significantly reduce the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease.

      Understanding aura can help stroke prevention

      Before the onset of cerebrovascular disease, there are usually harbingers of symptoms, such as the presence of a transient, numbness, weakness, a sudden fall in the hand of someone in the hand, and a soft fall when walking. Sometimes sudden binocular vision or blurred vision, walking cannot walk a straight line; Some people suddenly lost their words, tut unclear, or "understand in the heart" but express difficulties and so on are the warning signs.

      Zhou Zhenkun director said that the treatment of stroke aura symptoms are particularly important in the process of disease diagnosis and treatment of stroke, because stroke precursor and performers, three to five years, about a third of people strokes, about 1/10 of the people in the three months to half a year of stroke. Primary prevention emphasizes the treatment of the disease, not the disease, which is really a feature of TCM treatment. Therefore, when there is a warning sign of stroke, it should be highly valued. "First of all to the hospital the examination of the system, if the physical examination results, the index is normal, often do not have a corresponding treatment, western medicine of traditional Chinese medicine by needles dredge meridian, viscera of the Chinese medicine, dissolve the risk factors in time, nature can reduce the happening of the disease."

      In our daily life, we often listen to people's dizziness, take a course of intravenous drip, eat a lot of medicine symptoms not good, at this time acupuncture can give full play to the unique advantage, the needle to the disease divide; Some young people often complain that recent memory has been significantly reduced, or even completely forgotten. Lack of concentration, difficulty in thinking, and slow learning. A acupuncture point can relieve tension and improve concentration. "Acupuncture and moxibustion is one of the most important preventive measures for stroke prevention, and is also the embodiment of the treatment of the disease."

      TCM treatment for stroke emphasizes the treatment of disease

      For stroke treatment, the medical community has always emphasized the role of prevention. Prevention of stroke is divided into primary prevention and secondary prevention. Primary prevention "refers to the prevention before disease, that is, through early change unhealthy lifestyle, actively control all kinds of treatment of risk factors, so as to make the stroke will not occur (or delay the onset of age). Secondary prevention is the prevention of a stroke after a disease.

      Zhou Zhenkun director said, primary prevention is to reduce a risk factor for stroke, stroke of the high risk factors, including smoking, mental tension, high activity, high blood pressure, such as drinking less, can be fixed by acupuncture and moxibustion targeted intervention, such as ear earpins can inhibit the illusions about nicotine addiction, auxiliary quit smoking; The acupuncture and moxibustion can relieve nervous tension. The combination of acupuncture and moxibustion can improve the metabolism of the body and regulate the occurrence of the disease. Acupuncture and moxibustion, moxibustion, Chinese medicine can control blood pressure and so on. In addition, through physical examination and medical examination were cerebral arteriosclerosis or high blood pressure, or blood lipids, blood viscosity increased, the change of cerebral blood flow chart with insufficient blood supply carotid plaques, hemal stricture, heart disease, diabetes, are more likely to happen recently cerebrovascular disease.

      TCM is effective in preventing apoplexy

      High relapse rate, is one of the characteristics of cerebrovascular disease, avoid secondary prevention of the disease are also important, has been mainly for the patients with cerebrovascular disease, legacy by acupuncture combined with Chinese medicine treatment of stroke patients, improve the quality of survival, to prevent cerebrovascular disease attack again.

      Zhou zhenkun said that stroke recovery is a long-term process. After stroke, some patients are left with limb dysfunction, language impairment, drinking water and coughing. The sooner the acute phase intervenes, the lower the disability rate and the better the recovery. Acupuncture and moxibustion combined with traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of cerebrovascular disease recovery period mainly by dredging the meridians, promoting the damaged nerve tissue recombination, restoring the disabling function.

      Acute phase of stroke patients after water choking cough, difficulty swallowing, because such patients can't independent eating all wear a nasogastric tube auxiliary feeding, long wear tube easy cause aspiration pneumonia, stomach bleeding and other complications. The acupuncture point of the acupuncture point, the head cavity cong, 7-10 days 90% of the patients can eat autonomously, improve the quality of life.

      For patients with language barrier, zhou zhenkun USES tongue needle, hypoglossal puncture, and dialectical oral Chinese medicine, and combined with patient's speech training, the patient can communicate easily with others. Zhou zhenkun pointed out that the brain disease is more related to the sentiment, namely the mental tension, the pressure is big, for this kind of group of traditional Chinese medicine thinks the fire is biased upward. When the fire and the fire are out of control, it's like when you run into Mars, you jump up and you burn everything around you. "A lot of people due to long-term under working pressure load, something, heart on long-term accumulation, meet emergencies, it is easy to move up to the mind, the mind of the blood on the rampage, autumn zephyrlily inside, cause the wind stroke. Because of its "wind" characteristics, in the treatment, acupuncture preferred wind pool, fengfu, four hearing, in order to 'high above the wind and evil can reach', clear brain, calm and calm god."

      The stroke recovery period should pay attention to rational diet

      The recovery of stroke patients also requires a reasonable diet. Experts remind that "eat less, eat more, three or four five, seven eighths full", low sugar low salt and low fat, quit smoking and drinking, quit stimulating, spicy food, breakfast should drink more rice porridge, oatmeal powder and so on; Lunch and dinner to eat more vegetables such as spinach, celery, carrot, onion, black fungus, garlic, tomato, sweet potato, etc., meat is best not to exceed 100 grams a day, drink more water, wake up before bedtime drink a cup of warm boiled water. Reporter zhang xiaoli zhu feng LAN

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      Recommended for reasonable diet

      Dried chrysanthemum congee: have clear liver fire, reduce pressure action, be in the liver fire, high blood pressure is more appropriate.

      Practice: 15 grams of dried chrysanthemum petals, 50 grams of rice. Put the dried chrysanthemum petals into a powder machine to make powder. Boil the rice in a wok pan and cook the porridge until the porridge is cooked. Add the chrysanthemum and cook for another 1 to 2 minutes. Eat your meals separately.

      Stewed chicken with gastrodia: it is suitable for the numbness and dizziness caused by the treatment of wind sputum.

      Practice: tianma 10g, three loess chicken 1, ginger 2 slices, salt right amount, wolfberry 5g, red jujube 10g, wu fire boiled, then switch to wenfire stew until the chicken ripe and rotten.

      Huangqi angelica braised chicken: patients after stroke: shortness of breath, tinnitus, lalic acid knee soft, insomnia, numbness, body numbness, shudder, etc., can adopt the following food therapy method.

      Practice: 30 grams of astragalus, 10 jujube, 6 grams of pork, 100 grams of black chicken meat (sliced), a total stew of soup, meat and soup. Can nourish Yin to help Yang, supplement qi and blood.