Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Chen Hui
Correspondent Liu Qingjun
According to reports, there are more than 3 million Parkinson's patients in China, and 100,000 new patients are added every year, and Guangdong Parkinson's patients are estimated to have exceeded 200,000. Western medicine, surgery and rehabilitation have always been considered the troika of Parkinson's treatment, and in recent years, the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, especially traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, in improving Parkinson's symptoms has been increasingly recognized.
▲ Parkinson's will bring movement disorders (Photo/Visual China)
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As a neurodegenerative disease, Parkinson's disease is the second largest neurodegenerative disease in the world after Alzheimer's disease. The clinical manifestations of Parkinson's are mainly divided into motor symptoms and non-motor symptoms, and the motor symptoms mainly include bradykinesia, muscle rigidity, and resting tremor. Non-motor symptoms mainly include sleep disturbances, cognitive decline, constipation, depression, anxiety, etc.
Western medicine and surgery are the main ways to relieve the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Western medicine treatment will have a period of honeymoon period, after a honeymoon period the efficacy of the drug will begin to decline, so it has to increase the amount of medication, which will lead to an increase in drug side effects, and even complications such as dyskinesia, thereby aggravating various sports symptoms and even accelerating the progression of the disease. Surgical treatment mainly refers to deep brain stimulation, but due to its high cost and limited therapeutic effect, it often causes a great financial burden for patients.
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Professor Zhuang Lixing of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine introduced that Chinese medicine believes that the incidence of Parkinson's disease is mainly related to the kidneys, liver, brain and other organs and meridian system supervisors, and the loss of kidney essence, liver wind internal movement, and brain loss are the main reasons for Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's disease can be divided into four types: liver and kidney deficiency evidence, insufficient qi and blood evidence, liver yang wind certificate, and sputum hot wind certificate.
Jin Three Needle Therapy is a banner of the Lingnan acupuncture school, which has a wide influence at home and abroad, Jin Three Needle Therapy School is one of the first 64 traditional Chinese medicine schools in China, and has significant curative effects in the treatment of stroke, vascular dementia, Parkinson's disease and other encephalopathy.
Zhuang Lixing introduced that the Jin Three Needles Toning Needle Method for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, through the method of acupuncture, starts from adjusting the function of the internal organs and nourishing the yuan god of the brain. After clinical observation in recent years, while taking conventional drugs, combined with this therapy, it can effectively improve the motor symptoms (such as tremor, etc.) and non-motor system symptoms (such as depression, anxiety, cognitive impairment, etc.) in Parkinson's patients.
▲Professor Zhuang Lixing treats and consults patients (photo provided by the interviewee)
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【Tianma River fish head soup】
Composition: big fish head (bighead carp head) 500g, gastrodia 10g, Sichuan root 5g, pork lean 100g, 2 dates (diabetics change to red dates 3), ginger 2 slices;
Efficacy: Calm the liver and extinguish the wind, activate the blood and stabilize the trembling;
Indications: limb tremor, head and neck shaking, dizziness and tinnitus, body stiffness, dull tongue, thin white moss, fine veins;
Directions: Put tianma, Sichuan root and dates into a pot, add two bowls of water to a boil and reduce heat for 40 minutes. Fry the fish head in a frying pan. Add fish heads, lean meat and ginger to the pot and cook for 20 minutes, until the soup turns white, add a little salt to taste and serve, 1-2 times a week.
【Sour jujube kernel drink】
Composition: 200 g of sour date kernels, milk to taste (or honey);
Main effects: calm the mind, sleep indications: difficult to fall asleep, or easy to wake up after sleep, difficult to fall asleep after waking up, dream more, palpitations, sometimes self-conscious heartbeat is fast, sometimes very slow, accompanied by fear, irritability and so on. Reddish tongue or red tip of the tongue, little moss or thin white moss, fine veins;
Directions: Take 200 grams of sour jujube kernels, grade the powder in the pharmacy, or grind it into powder with a soy milk machine (dry it in the microwave before powdering, otherwise it is easy to beat into a ball) seal it in a bottle or sealed bag, take the sour jujube kernel powder (10 grams) about 1 hour before going to bed every night, and take it with hot milk or honey water.
Notes:
1. Since medopa and milk cannot be taken together, it is recommended to take it one hour before or after taking the drug.
2. Diabetics should not use honey.
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In order to care for more Parkinson's patients, Professor Zhuang Lixing and his team will conduct free consultation and acupuncture treatment for Parkinson's patients on October 14.
Time: October 14, 2021, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m
Venue: Free consultation in the outpatient hall on the first floor of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
Doctors: Professor Zhuang Lixing, Professor Jiang Ganghui, Deputy Chief Physician Zhang Bin, Nurse Wang Lili, etc.
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