Chinese medicine formula for Sjögren's syndrome

Patients with Sjögren's syndrome need to focus on moisturizing themselves on a daily basis. In terms of traditional Chinese medicine, they can use Sini San, Siwu Tang, and Bu Gan Tang as the main prescriptions, supplemented with ingredients, vegetables, and fruits that reduce fire and clear heat, and adjust their own balance through diet therapy; at the same time, they need to keep exercising and adjust their mental state; finally, they need to drink more water to ensure the body is moisturized.

To prevent Sjogren's disease, you should always maintain an optimistic mood, take walks in places with fresh air frequently, expel the old and take in the new, so as to restrain the "spirit" and protect the lung qi from being invaded by dry evil.

The prescription uses Sini San, Siwu Tang, and Bu Gan Tang with modifications.

◆Sini San

Prescription: 4 grams each of licorice (roasted), immature bitter orange (broken, soaked in water, roasted and dried), bupleurum, and peony. Usage: Decoction in water, 1 dose per day.

◆Siwu Decoction

Prescription: 2 grams of Chuanxiong, 6 grams of white peony root (fried), 4 grams each of ginseng and angelica, 3 slices of ginger, and 3 dates. Usage: Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into 2 doses.

◆ Liver-nourishing Soup

Prescription: 3 grams each of licorice, cinnamon bark, and cornus officinalis, 6 grams each of peach kernel, cypress kernel, poria cocos, asarum, and saposhnikovia divaricata, and 24 dates. Usage: decoction, 1 dose per day, divided into 2 doses. Chinese medicine for the treatment of Sjögren's syndrome - deficiency of lung and spleen yin, deficiency of body fluid

This syndrome is common in clinical practice and often appears in the early stages of the disease. The dryness symptoms are more obvious than other syndromes. Symptoms include dry eyes and mouth, less tears and saliva, less mucus and sweat, red eyes and throat, frequent drinking of water, dry mucous membranes, dry cough without sputum, erythematous rash, muscle and joint pain, red tongue, and thin, clear tongue coating. The prescription should be sweet, cold and nourishing, such as Adenophora and Ophiopogon Decoction or Bamboo Leaf and Gypsum Decoction with modifications.

◆Adenophora and Radix Ophiopogonis Soup

Prescription: 4 grams each of raw licorice, winter mulberry leaves, raw lentils, and pollen, 9 grams each of Adenophora Root and Ophiopogon japonicus, and 6 grams of Polygonatum odoratum. Usage: Decoction in water (5 cups of water, boil to 2 cups), 1 dose per day, divided into 2 doses.

◆Bamboo leaf gypsum soup

Prescription: 30 pieces of green bamboo leaves, 6 grams of Fritillaria, 2 grams each of mulberry leaf peel and raw licorice, 4 grams each of honeysuckle, wax gourd, gypsum, almonds and forsythia shell, 9 grams each of white radish seeds and fresh reed stems (without nodes).

Usage: Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into 2 doses.

The main cause of Sjögren's syndrome is stagnation of dampness and heat, and imbalance of body fluids. Symptoms include dry mouth and eyes, swollen salivary glands, bitter taste in the mouth, bad breath, sticky and uncomfortable feeling in the mouth, fatigue and drowsiness, heaviness in the limbs, and painful and swollen joints. Below is an introduction to the Chinese medicine prescription for treating Sjögren's syndrome.

◆Prescription for Sanren Decoction: 4 grams each of white tongcao, white cardamom seed, bamboo leaf, and magnolia officinalis, 10 grams each of apricot kernel and pinellia, 12 grams each of raw coix seed and talc.

Usage: Decoction in water (5 cups of water, boil to 3 cups), 1 dose per day, divided into 2 doses.

◆Huo Pu Xia Ling Tang

Prescription: 8 grams of Pinellia, 10 grams each of Patchouli, Magnolia officinalis, Poria, Apricot, Coix seed, Glycine max, Alisma orientalis, and Safflower. Usage: Decoction in water, 1 dose per day.

The prognosis of Sjögren's syndrome treated with traditional Chinese medicine is good, and most patients with visceral damage can be relieved with proper treatment.

Therefore, early detection and correct treatment can prevent damage to organs such as the kidneys, lungs, and liver. Expert Tip: Please use the above prescriptions according to the doctor's instructions, and do not use them without authorization, which may worsen the condition.