What Chinese medicine should I take for Tourette syndrome?

Tourette syndrome is a common neuropsychiatric disease in children that has a serious impact on children's life and health. Currently, most of the drugs used to treat tics are traditional Chinese medicines, and the total amount of treatment is very large, which has a significant impact on the physical health of children. Because they are worried about using Western medicine for treatment, many parents have begun to seek the use of traditional Chinese medicine to treat their children's tics. So, what Chinese medicine should be taken for tics?

In fact, there are quite a few traditional Chinese medicines for treating tics. Here are some of them.

1. Use white peony root and roasted turtle shell to nourish yin and soothe the liver; use dragon teeth, poria, magnet, raw dragon bone, and raw oyster to calm and eliminate phlegm; use gastrodia elata, Uncaria rhynchophylla, cicada shell, and earthworm to soothe the liver and extinguish wind; use calamus to open the heart and open the orifices; use alpinia oxyphylla to warm the spleen and kidneys; use gentiana macrophylla and saposhnikovia divaricata to dispel external wind.

2. Use white peony root to nourish blood, soften the liver, and calm the liver yang. It points out that the main component of white peony root, paeoniflorin, has an inhibitory effect on different parts of the central nervous system; Gastrodia elata has the effects of extinguishing wind and stopping convulsions, calming the liver and suppressing yang. Its main component, gastrodin, can affect the content of catecholamine neurotransmitters in the brain. The two are the main medicines to achieve the effects of calming the liver and suppressing yang, extinguishing wind and stopping movement. Mother of pearl has the function of calming the liver and suppressing yang; Uncaria rhynchophylla has the effects of calming the liver, calming spasms and extinguishing wind. The active ingredient, uncariae, can counteract the enhancement of spontaneous activity of animals caused by caffeine, reduce the excitability of the cerebral cortex of rats, and have a synergistic effect on the sleep of mice induced by sodium pentobarbital, can inhibit the autonomous activity of mice, and has an anticonvulsant effect.

3. Select mulberry leaves and chrysanthemums to calm the liver and relieve wind; use bupleurum to soothe the liver; white peony root to nourish blood and soften the liver; use turmeric to promote qi and activate blood circulation; use calamus to open the orifices and eliminate dampness; use arisaema to dispel wind, relieve spasms, dry dampness and resolve phlegm; at the same time, based on the theory of "treating wind by treating blood first, and when blood circulates, the wind will disappear", use other yin-nourishing and blood-nourishing products.

4. Reuse three liver-calming and wind-extinguishing drugs of Semen Cassiae, Oyster and Mother of Pearl to suppress Yang and calm convulsions; combine with Bombyx Batryticatus, Uncaria Rhynchophylla and Gastrodia elata to enter the liver meridian, which has the effects of calming the liver and extinguishing wind, resolving phlegm and stopping spasms; at the same time, cooperate with drugs for invigorating the spleen and stomach, regulating qi and resolving phlegm, which together have the effects of calming the liver and extinguishing wind, resolving phlegm and tranquilizing the mind.

Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history in my country. Many Chinese medical books have records of tics and their treatment methods. However, Chinese medicine emphasizes symptomatic treatment, so parents cannot blindly use Chinese medicine to treat their children. If you want to use Chinese medicine to treat tics, it is better for parents to ask a doctor to prescribe the right medicine after seeing the child!