Hello, I am a Chinese medicine person, Zhou Guangbai.
In today's text, I want to tell you about a tic that is easy to happen to children, Tourette's syndrome.
What kind of disease is this?
Let's take a look at a little example.
Said there was a girl who was only 7 years old at the time.
I'm 7 years old, so it's time to go to school. But she can't go to school.
Why? Since three months ago, she doesn't know what's going on, her whole body is twitching all over her body, and she can't stop at all.
The family was frightened and hurriedly took her to the hospital. At that time, doctors gave Western medicine to control the symptoms. But the effect is not so obvious. In addition, the patient then develops other problems, such as limb tremors, numbness, skipping meals, and so on.
What can I do about it? In the end, the family decided to take the child to see a Chinese medicine doctor.
At the moment, the child's pulse was smooth, less lichen, and the tongue was dark red. The whole person was pale, and his limbs and torso twitched uncontrollably. I can walk, but I can't walk steadily, and my throat unconsciously roars, as if there is phlegm blocked there, and my mood is very anxious. While twitching, he let out a muddy roar.
After learning about these situations, I wrote a prescription. But see—
Gastrodia, hook vine, raw keel, oyster, tulip, papaya, white peony, fried dragon, cicada molt.
Take a decoction with water, one dose per day.
After taking 6 doses, the evidence was significantly reduced. Tics are reduced. However, there is still a roar in his throat, and his temperament is very irritable.
At this time, the original recipe plus salvia, shoot dry, zombie silkworm, gallant star, gardenia, and then 12 doses.
This time, the patient's symptoms were completely relieved after taking it. Two weeks after taking the medicine the next day, the patient is refreshed, behaves and speaks normally, and is able to go to school.
Moreover, patients who have been followed for an extended period of time indicate that symptoms have not recurred.
This is the basic process of the medical case. Do you say it's awesome?
Now, I'll talk to you about the problem here.
In fact, this child's problems mainly lie in the hyperactivity of liver yang and the internal movement of liver wind.
You remember, this child's physical characteristics are that he has a surplus of liver and a deficiency of spleen. Therefore, the child's mood is unstable, and he cries when he says he cries, and he makes trouble when he says it. Liver-related diseases are also common.
For example, this child, she has a short temperament and twitching limbs, which is hyperactivity of liver yang and internal disturbance of liver wind. Why? Because the liver is emotional, the liver is wood, and there is an image of wind moving. The characteristics of its red tongue and lack of lichen tell us that the child belongs to yin deficiency. If the liver yin is insufficient, it is naturally easy to hyperactively liver yang and liver wind to move internally. As for the limb tremors and numbness that appeared later, they were all signs of wind movement, and they were all the result of internal movement of liver wind.
In the thinking of Chinese medicine, this matter is not so complicated.
Of course, this kid has a slippery pulse and a phlegm roar in his throat, which means that there is still phlegm fever. Phlegm and heat disturb the mind, so the child is like crazy, seeing who is in a hurry.
What should I do? Calm the liver and calm the wind, clear phlegm and heat.
In the formula, gastrodia and hook vine are used to calm liver wind and clear liver heat. Keel, oysters, flat liver, latent yang. Papaya and white peony, soothing the liver and softening the liver. Yujin, clear heat and relieve depression. The earth dragon, clearing heat and calming shock, cicadas molting, extinguishing the wind and stopping spasms.
Later, add shot dry and gallbladder south star to clear phlegm and heat, add gardenia to clear heat, add salvia to calm the heart, and add stiff silkworm to extinguish wind and stop spasms.
You see, the idea is very simple, calm the liver, quench wind, clear phlegm and heat.
All in all, what is the beauty of Chinese medicine? The thinking of traditional Chinese medicine is different from that of Western medicine. This is the reason why Chinese medicine is Chinese medicine, and it is also the academic nature that Chinese medicine practitioners should abide by.