How to treat malaria effectively

Malaria is very unfamiliar to many people. This disease is mainly common in remote areas such as Africa and is an infectious disease with a very high mortality rate. As for how to treat malaria, there are generally two types of treatment: Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, which provide symptomatic treatments for different types of malaria.

1. Symptoms of malaria

[Main symptoms] Chills and high fever, which come and go at intervals. First there is yawning and fatigue, followed by chills and trembling chin. When the chills stop, there is heat inside and outside, headache and red face, thirst and urge to drink, and finally sweating all over the body, and the fever subsides and the body becomes cool. The tongue is red with a thin white coating, or yellow and greasy, and the pulse is stringy.

【Treatment method】Reconciliation and elimination of evil.

[Prescription] Chaihu Jielan Drink modified with bupleurum, pinellia, radix dichroica, red ginseng, cardamom, jujube, scutellaria, ginger, and betel nut. If the patient has a strong exterior with little sweat and severe aversion to cold, add cinnamon twig, saposhnikovia divaricata, and angelica dahurica to relieve the exterior and induce sweating; if the patient has dry mouth and desire to drink, add kudzu root and dendrobium to produce fluid and quench thirst; if the dampness and heat are excessive and there is fullness and stuffiness in the chest and abdomen, remove the ginseng and add atractylodes, magnolia bark, and green tangerine peel to regulate qi and eliminate dampness.

2. Symptoms of malaria

[Main symptoms] More heat than cold, or just heat without cold, poor sweating, headache, pain in bones and joints, thirst, hard stools and dark urine. The tongue is red, the coating is yellow, and the pulse is stringy and rapid.

【Treatment method】 Clear away heat and relieve exterior symptoms.

[Prescription] Baihu Jia Guizhi Decoction with modifications: Gypsum (pre-boiled), Anemarrhena asphodeloides, cinnamon twig, Bupleurum chinense, Artemisia annua, Rehmannia root, Ophiopogon japonicus, Pseudostellaria pseudoginseng, and Licorice. If there is more heat and less cold, shortness of breath, chest tightness, excessive sweating, and no pain in joints, it is because of excessive heat and damage to body fluid and qi. You can use Baihu Jia Renshen Decoction with added ingredients to clear heat, promote body fluid and replenish qi for treatment. If the damage to body fluid is more severe, add Dendrobium and Polygonatum odoratum to nourish yin and promote body fluid.

3. Symptoms of cold malaria

[Main symptoms] Cold without heat, or more cold than heat, no thirst, fullness in the chest and flanks, fatigue and listlessness. The tongue coating is white and greasy, and the pulse is stringy and slow.

【Treatment method】Spicy and warm to eliminate evil.

[Prescription] Chaihu Guizhi Ganjiang Decoction combined with Qibao Jielan Drink: bupleurum, cinnamon twig, magnolia bark, dried ginger, roasted licorice, tangerine peel, trichosanthes root, oyster, scutellaria, amomum villosum, dichroa, and areca catechu. If sweating is not smooth, remove the oyster; if cold and dampness are excessive in the body and there is chest and abdominal distension, add green peel; if there is spitting of phlegm, add radix sutchuenensis and aconite to warm and disperse the cold phlegm.

4. Malaria

[Main symptoms] (1) Symptoms of heat miasma: severe heat or slight cold, or high fever without cold, pain in limbs, red face and eyes, chest tightness and vomiting, thirst for cold drinks, constipation, hot and red urine, and even coma and delirium. The tongue is red, the coating is black and dirty, and the pulse is strong and rapid.

【Treatment method】Exorcise filth and eliminate miasma, clear away heat and preserve body fluid.

[Prescription] Qingzhao Decoction with modifications: Artemisia annua, Polygonatum odoratum, Poria cocos, Rehmannia root, Bupleurum chinense, Pinellia ternata, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Tangerine peel, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, Scutellaria baicalensis, Coptis chinensis, Citrus aurantium, Radix Dichroae, and Yiyuan Powder.

[Main symptoms] (2) Symptoms of cold miasma: severe cold with mild heat, or aversion to cold and shivering without fever, or even coma and loss of speech. The tongue coating is thick, white and greasy, and the pulse is stringy.

[Treatment method] Use aromatics to clear turbidity, eliminate filth and regulate qi.

[Prescription] Jinzhengqi Powder with modified ingredients: Patchouli, Cymbidium orchioides, Atractylodes lancea, Poria, Magnolia officinalis, Pinellia ternata, Areca catechu, Tangerine peel, Acorus calamus, Amomum villosum, and fresh lotus leaf.