How does Traditional Chinese Medicine treat muscular dystrophy?

Muscular atrophy is a skeletal muscle nutritional disorder with many types, and the treatment is mainly targeted. Muscular dystrophy is not uncommon in clinical practice, and traditional Chinese medicine is also a treatment method for muscular dystrophy. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment is mainly dialectical treatment, and the treatment methods are also diverse.

1. Traditional Chinese medicine takes syndrome differentiation as its principle and believes that the damaged internal organs should be identified, with the main focus on strengthening the body's health while taking into account the elimination of pathogenic factors, as well as the dispersing of wind, cold, dampness, heat, regulating qi, removing blood stasis and unblocking the meridians. The key to strengthening the body is to invigorate the spleen and kidneys. It is important to make accurate differentiation of syndromes, take a long course of treatment, and work slowly, using time to achieve therapeutic effects.

2. Early treatment with traditional Chinese medicine should focus on strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi. In the middle stage, the focus is on tonifying the spleen and kidneys, while in the later stage, the liver and kidneys, nourishing yin and replenishing qi are the key. Pure Chinese herbal preparations can be used in combination with B vitamins to improve circulation. Hyperbaric oxygen can be tried when necessary, and attention should be paid to increasing exercise in daily life.

3. Muscular atrophy is not an infectious disease, but a genetic defect disease. There are many types of muscular atrophy (such as: Joshin type, Becker type, spinal cord type and other types...), and Joshin type is the most common and most serious one. The defective gene causes the muscle cells to gradually lose their function. With age, the muscle damage becomes more serious, making it impossible for the patient to move his limbs freely. The joints also become contracted and deformed, forcing the patient to rely on a brace or wheelchair to get around, or even become paralyzed in bed.

4. Traditional Chinese medicine treats this disease with spleen and kidney as the basis. The liver governs the tendons and body movements, and the liver and kidney are of the same origin. Therefore, the main principles are to strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, nourish the liver and kidney, regenerate muscles and cure atrophy, and strengthen tendons and bones. Dozens of precious Chinese herbal medicines such as ginseng, astragalus, whole worm, tortoise shell, and angelica have been used to develop a series of "immune prescriptions". Long-term clinical practice has confirmed that this medicine can restore atrophied and weak muscles to varying degrees, prevent muscle atrophy and joint contracture and deformation, and the therapeutic effect is ideal.