What should I do if I find a thyroid cyst? Surgical removal is worried about large destruction, hypothyroidism, and high cost... Ultrasound guidance is worried about the unsatisfactory efficacy, and it is frightening... Thermal ablation worries about complications...
Compared with these therapies, traditional Chinese medicine has great advantages in the treatment of various hyperplasias, cysts, nodules, tumors, with few side effects, low recurrence rate, low cost and few complications...
Thyroid cyst is a common thyroid disease, accounting for about 5%~20% of thyroid nodules, referring to cystic structure volume accounting for more than 50%, spongy changes of nodules, mainly due to thyroid nodules local tissue ischemia, necrosis, degeneration, interstitial blood stasis and edema, fluid accumulation and formation of cysts, often manifested as a mass on one or both sides of the neck, soft to the touch, cystic elasticity according to it, local skin color, normal temperature.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the disease belongs to "gall disease" and "gall tumor", and it is often treated with traditional Chinese medicine such as regulating qi and dissolving phlegm, invigorating blood and removing stasis, etc., with good efficacy and easy acceptance by patients.
The onset of thyroid cyst is related to emotional factors, diet, water and soil, and physical factors, long-term depression, so the qi is stagnant, the liver wood is not well adjusted, and the fluid is not good, and it condenses into phlegm;
or live in alpine areas for a long time, the water and soil are not suitable, or the dampness obstructs the spleen and stomach, the spleen and stomach cannot be transported, the dampness is endogenous, the phlegm is coagulated before the neck, the phlegm is coagulated for a long time, and the blood flow is not smooth;
Therefore, pathological products such as qi stagnation, phlegm coagulation, and blood stasis can be formed, which are crusted in the front of the neck.
The pathogenesis of thyroid cyst in TCM should be divided into deficiency and reality, and the empirical evidence is mainly qi stagnation and phlegm coagulation, phlegm coagulation, blood stasis, and stasis, while the deficiency pattern is mainly spleen deficiency and dampness, yang deficiency and phlegm coagulation.
These 16 flavors of traditional Chinese medicine, eight kinds of compatibility, are suitable for all kinds of thyroid cysts, and the effect is remarkable.
Zhejiang fritillary - white mustard seed
White mustard seeds, pungent taste, warm nature, return to the lungs and stomach meridians, benefit qi and expel phlegm, dissipate cold in warmth, and relieve pain. "Medicinal Solution" said: "It can eliminate malaria, ward off ghosts, drive away scrofula, and phlegm and saliva in addition to the epidermal membrane."
Zhejiang fritillary, bitter taste, cold, function of clearing heat, phlegm and cough, used for wind-heat cough, phlegm cough, sores and other symptoms.
The phlegm outside the epidermal membrane, or due to cold and damp condensation, or heat poison refining, remains in the skin and viscera to form stubborn phlegm, "glue phlegm", is nodules, carbuncles, and sputum.
White mustard seeds, Zhejiang fritillary, bitter and bitter pairing, strengthen the bitterness and bitterness, open the qi machine, regulate the liver and spleen, the qi is smooth, then the water and liquid can not be stopped, and there is no phlegm to be born;
The two are used in combination with cold and temperature, one cold and one warm, which can be used to dissipate stubborn phlegm and consolidation.
Fabanxia - corrugated
Banxia, warm, pungent taste, poisonous, return to the spleen, stomach, lung meridians. Dryness and dampness dissolve phlegm, reduce inversion and stop vomiting, eliminate phlegm and disperse knots, warm and dry, can treat spleen does not dissolve dampness, phlegm and saliva stagnation caused by phlegm and other symptoms, its pungent dissipation and phlegm dissipation;
Corrugated seeds, sweet, salty, flat in nature, into the liver, spleen, stomach meridian, can eliminate phlegm and stasis, soft and hard to disperse knots, acid and pain. It is mainly used for the treatment of scrofula, gall, symptomatic sputum, stubborn phlegm and long-term cough, stomach pain and spitting acid, etc., which can be taken internally and externally.
Semi-summer dry and damp pungent powder, corrugated seed to eliminate phlegm, soft and firm, astringent and pain-relieving, coupled with the iodine content of marine organisms, the two are spicy and scattered, soft and dry and damp, and the qi is reduced, which is suitable for patients with thyroid cysts who are deficient in iodine and have a glued texture of cyst fluid.
Thyroid cysts are mostly caused by dampness, the liver is lost and discharged, the spleen cannot be transported, and the water metabolism is unbalanced, so it becomes phlegm and dampness over time, and gathers in the front of the neck over time, forming a mass in front of the neck, so it is necessary to dissolve the phlegm and disperse the knots, and dry and damp, soft and hard to eliminate phlegm.
Triangular - Curcuma
Three-edged, bitter taste, flat in nature, return to the liver and spleen meridians, have the effect of breaking blood and chasing stasis, and relieving pain. Curcuma, pungent, bitter, warm, return to the liver and spleen meridians. It also has the effect of breaking blood and removing stasis, and relieving pain.
The power of breaking blood is more triangular and the effect of curcuma is stronger in relieving qi and pain, and the two must be used together, and the power of breaking blood stasis and dispersing knots is better, which can treat all blood stasis and qi knots.
Thyroid cysts are not easy to find, and most patients find that they have been sick for a long time, and they will stasis over time;
It is manifested as a slightly tough texture on the front of the neck, a dark red thyroid cyst and a dull tongue;
With Sanleng and Curcuma as the medicine pair, on the basis of syndrome differentiation and treatment, the effect of invigorating blood and driving away stasis can eliminate cysts.
Prunella vulgaris - cat's claw
Prunella vulgaris, pungent taste, bitter, cold. Return to the liver and gallbladder meridians. Although the summer dry grass is cold and the taste is pungent, where it is pungent, it will be scattered. Its bitterness can be discharged, the bitterness can be dredged, and it is good at venting the depression of the liver and gallbladder wood fire, and the smooth operation of qi and blood.
Cat's claw grass, sweet and pungent, warm in nature, returns to the liver and lung meridians, dissolves phlegm and disperses knots, detoxifies and reduces swelling.
Take an appropriate amount of cat's claw grass and prunella grass, boil it into a paste, stick it to the affected area, or decoction with water, and take it internally and externally.
Prunella vulgaris and cat's claw grass must be used for each other, both can be used for Xin San, soothing the liver and regulating qi, promoting qi and blood, dispersing the front of the neck, and scattering the fire of the liver wood, the two complement each other, and are commonly used to disperse gall swelling, diarrhea liver fire, and phlegm knots.
Tangerine pit - lychee pit
The orange kernel has a bitter taste and a flat nature, and it returns to the liver and kidney meridians, which can regulate qi, disperse knots, and relieve pain.
Lychee core, sweet taste, slightly bitter, warm, return to the liver and kidney meridians, can be used to disperse qi knots, dispel cold and relieve pain.
The two qi and blood are treated together, the orange kernel is more into the qi, and it is good at the knotting of qi in the liver; the lychee kernel is hard and the temperature is biased into the blood, and it is good at warming the cold of the liver meridian and the stagnation in the blood;
The two drugs must be used in combination, which has a strong effect of regulating qi and dispersing knots and relieving pain. Qi and blood are not good, and if it is not passed, it will be painful, and the orange kernel and lychee kernel can be used to relieve the liver and qi, benefit the qi and blood, treat the qi and blood at the same time, and disperse the knot and relieve pain.
The combination of the two can treat thyroid cyst with anterior neck pain or tingling, most patients with thyroid cyst have uncomfortable liver qi, this medicine is just right for the same qi and blood, smooth the liver wood and strong pain relief, and treat both the symptoms and the root causes.
Seaweed-kombu
Seaweed, bitter, salty, cold, non-toxic, into the liver, stomach, kidney meridian. It is mainly used to eliminate phlegm, soften and dissolve knots, dilute water and reduce swelling.
Kombu, salty, cold, slippery, non-toxic, return to the liver, stomach, kidney meridians, "Materia Medica" said that it "treats twelve kinds of edema, gall coalescing gas, fistula".
Both are salty and cold products, salty can be soft and hard, cold can clear heat, strengthen soft and hard to disperse knots, clear heat and eliminate gall.
Both are iodine-rich traditional Chinese medicines, which can be used to treat endemic goiter caused by iodine deficiency.
Crane grass - arborvitae leaves
Crane grass, bitter taste, astringent, flat nature, return to the lungs, liver, spleen meridians. It has the effect of astringent hemostasis, dysentery and insecticide. It is mainly used for the treatment of hemoptysis, vomiting blood, blood in urine, blood in the stool, red dysentery, collapse and leakage, strain and detachment, carbuncle, bruises, trauma bleeding, etc.
Arborvitae leaves, bitter, astringent, cold. Return to the lungs, liver, and spleen meridians. The Lord cools the blood and stops the bleeding, and grows black hair. "The Meaning of Medicine" notes: "Arborvitae leaves, bitter and nourishing yin, with astringency and blood, and purifying the upper part of the reverse blood." ”
The two herbs are all to stop the blood and need medicine, and both enter the liver meridian, the foot syncope yin and liver meridians; the crane grass can regulate the qi and blood, and the leaves of the oriental cypress are bitter and cold, and there are disadvantages of hindering luck in the injury, so they are only taken temporarily, and should not be taken for a long time.
When there is active intracystic bleeding in the thyroid cyst, this drug can be added to strengthen the hemostasis effect.
Qumai-Ze Yuan
Qu wheat is cold in nature and bitter in taste. Return to the heart meridian and small intestine meridian. It can be diuretic and drenched, and the blood can be broken and menstruation.
Ze epsom, sweet, light, cold. Return to the kidneys and bladder meridians. It is beneficial to water dampness, heat dissipation, turbidity and lipid reduction.
Qu wheat diuretic, and break the blood meridians, Ze Yi is good at chasing three coke, bladder water. The combination of the two medicines complements each other, invigorates blood and water, and makes dampness go away from urine.
It can be used for thyroid cysts accompanied by anterior neck tingling, dark tongue and other stasis syndromes, invigorating blood and water, and the anterior neck lump will slowly disappear.
Tips:
Although traditional Chinese medicine is good, it is still necessary to consult a professional Chinese medicine practitioner before using it to standardize the use of medicine. After all, the body is one's own, and the indiscriminate use of Chinese medicine is likely to outweigh the losses.