TCM experts provide flu prevention and control

Nanfang daily, 2018-01-03

, guangdong province, the second hospital emergency department, deputy director of the TCM doctor, Dr Huang Hanchao from the clinical case analysis, the main flu characterized by sudden onset, after cold evil cold, joint pain, especially back, thigh muscle pain, dry cough, sore throat, voice hoarse, sneezing, stuffy nose, stream qing stuff, lack of power, partial patient on abdominal pain, nausea, defecate to powder, such as performance, check routine blood are characterized by white blood cells and c-reactive protein in normal, physical examination prompt pharynx gorge - the palate hyperemia, from the Angle of western medicine, these are all typical flu symptoms. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, this year the flu belongs to the sun, the disease of the taiyin, and the disease of the sandwich is mainly dampness. Because of the dampness of the disease, the course of illness is easy to linger; Because it is easy to get hot, the disease is prone to sudden change. "Some people say it was a little bit better yesterday, but it's hot today and it's hotter than before, that's why." Dr Huang Hanchao pointed out that on the treatment in addition to pay attention to keep warm, drink more water, eat light, eat much food less, distinguishes the conquest, with Chinese traditional medicine can according to the meridian to the guidance of pathogenic, prevention to the origin, cold evil the two pathogenic factors make the corresponding measures.

Dr Huang Hanchao suggestion, after a cold on the back (foot of) by bladder by the sun and the inner thigh (foot lunar spleen place), double arm medial (hand yangming e.) by pass scrapping (with special ox horn scrapping plate, dip in on moxa leaf, rhizoma atractylodis burning water, open a 1.5 inches from the cervical spine from the top down of lumbar di ministry, and then from the thigh to the foot, then the thumb from bottom to top, shaved one place to another place, technique by light weight, dry to remarry, blow again, blow to the skin to become purple or plaque for degrees), helps ease of pathogenic, and help to improve immunity, shorten the course of the disease.

Available after pediatric cold medicine bath, herba schizonepetae 30 g, honeysuckle, 30 g ACTS 100 g, gardenia 30 g, 20 g fresh pomelo leaves, boil water, 2000 ml, add to about 45 ℃ warm water for bath, 1 times a day, helps to cool.

"Whether it is prevention or a cold, you must pay attention to the warm work of your back and feet, and you can clean it in a timely manner so as to prevent the invasion of the cold. In addition, both sides of husband and wife as one sick with the flu, go to bed at night when the proposal back to back to sleep, so can prevent infection to each other, and the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks back to shenyang, back to sun be the spirit of fu, back-to-back sleep helps to produce hot cold."

Dr. Ni xiaoliang, paediatrician of the guangdong provincial hospital, provided two symptomatic treatment for cold children:

1. Turmeric juice

Composition: ginger 6g, su leaf 5g, brown sugar right amount.

Usage: ginger wash, slice, and su ye together in a pot, add water 300ml, decoction for 20 minutes, dregs juice, add brown sugar in appropriate amount, treat sugar dissolve. Take the warm clothes.

Functional primary treatment: used for external wind chill type, fever and bad wind (cold), sneezing nasal obstruction, flow clear, sputum clear.

2. Honeysuckle hawthorn juice

Composition: honeysuckle 10g, hawthorn 10g, honey 15ml.

Usage: honeysuckle, hawthorn wash, add water 500ml, decocate for 20 minutes, remove the juice, and then transfer to honey. Take a cold suit.

Main function: used for external wind heat, hot and evil wind, for fear of heat, nasal congestion, sputum yellow.