Hunan Daily New Hunan Client, October 18 (Correspondent: County Ethnic Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital) There is a "skin pain" called shingles. Recently, the county ethnic Chinese medicine hospital admitted a number of shingles patients, through the traditional Chinese medicine treatment plan, effectively relieve the pain of patients and shorten the course of the disease, so that patients can recover as soon as possible.
Shingles is an acute infectious skin disease caused by varicella-zoster virus, commonly known as "waist wrapping fire pill", "waist dragon", "snake string sores", some people infected with shingles virus will be painful after the rash subsides.
It is understood that patients with shingles who have recently been admitted to the hospital are manifested as multiple clusters of blisters in the armpits, back, upper arms, chest and other parts, with pinprick-like pain, and more unbearable pain at night. In view of the recent frequent occurrence of herpes zoster virus, the County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine attached great importance to it, and organized the backbone of traditional Chinese medicine in various departments of the hospital to hold a seminar on treatment plans to determine the treatment plan for external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine plus internal administration of traditional Chinese medicine.
External treatment uses copper gua sha therapy to take points in the painful area and the corresponding meridian dialectical acupoints, and uses the gua sha board to carry out appropriate scraping locally, stimulate the body surface meridians, regulate the nervous system, improve the flow of human qi and blood, unblock the meridians, and activate the blood to achieve the effect of excreting stasis and general rule without pain. Then carry out the puncture cupping method, use a disinfected needle to prick or pick the acupuncture point, causing bleeding, and then adsorb the jar to the bleeding point, so that the amount of bleeding increases, and the puncture cupping can effectively reduce the pain of patients, shorten the time of herpes scab and reduce the incidence of sequelae neuralgia. At the same time, it is combined with ear point bean pressing and oral Chinese medicine formula for clearing heat and detoxification, activating blood and relieving pain. This TCM external treatment plus internal TCM treatment plan has a remarkable effect, which can effectively relieve the patient's pain and shorten the course of the disease, and many patients have recovered and been discharged under the careful care of medical staff.
The County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine warmly reminds everyone: it is important to maintain good personal hygiene and healthy habits before the upper medical treatment, healthy qi in the inside, and evil cannot be done. In daily life, we should pay attention to improving immunity, regular work and rest, balanced nutrition, and appropriate exercise, which is also an effective means to enhance physical fitness and resist diseases.
If you suffer from shingles, you must seek medical attention in time, otherwise delay the condition, which may cause skin infection, postherpetic neuralgia, etc.