How to treat knee pain with Chinese medicine?

Knee pain is a common body pain. For modern people, it is no longer exclusive to the elderly. Many young people also suffer from this disease, especially in the summer when the weather is unstable. Knee pain brings a lot of inconvenience to people's daily travel. Sometimes climbing stairs is particularly painful, which brings great trouble to the patient's life. Traditional Chinese medicine is a very good way to treat knee pain. Let’s follow the editor to learn about it.

Chinese medicine treatment

1. Fumigation and washing medicine:

Efficacy: dispel wind and dredge meridians, warm the meridians and dispel cold, promote diuresis and reduce swelling, promote blood circulation and relieve pain

Medicine: Stretching tendon grass, bone-penetrating grass, safflower, sea toon bark, Acanthopanax bark, Achyranthes bidentata, roasted milk vetch, Saposhnikovia divaricata, roasted Sichuan aconite, roasted ebony, papaya, Clematis, Millettia reticulata, earthworm, mulberry, cassia twig, mugwort leaf

Usage: decoct in water and wash the affected area twice a day, each time for 20 minutes.

2. Oral medication:

Knee osteoarthritis belongs to the category of arthralgia in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that all tendons belong to the joints. The knee is the seat of tendons. The liver governs tendons, and the kidney governs bones. This shows that knee disease is closely related to tendons, liver, and kidney.

Damp-heat arthralgia: knee pain accompanied by local redness, swelling and burning sensation, pain that cannot be touched, joint immobility, yellow and greasy tongue coating, slippery and rapid pulse

Treatment principle: clear away heat and dampness, reduce swelling and relieve pain

Prescription: Simiao Powder with added ingredients

Atractylodes macrocephala, Phellodendron chinense, Achyranthes bidentata, Coix coix, Smilax glabra, Radix Dipterocarpa, Eupatorium fortunei, Stephania tetrandra, Taraxacum officinale

Alisma orientalis, Corydalis yanhusuo, Forsythia suspensa, Licorice

Wind-cold arthralgia: knee pain accompanied by cold joints that make it difficult to bend and stretch, pain relieved by heat but aggravated by cold, more obvious on rainy days, white tongue coating, stringy pulse

Treatment principle: dispel wind and cold, dredge meridians and relieve pain

Prescription: Huangqi Guizhi Wuwu Decoction with added ingredients

Astragalus, cinnamon twig, white peony root, asarum, papaya, clematis, ox-bone, acanthopanax bark

Ephedra, Corydalis, Safflower, Scorpion, Salvia, Licorice, Roasted Chuanwu, Nepeta, Millettia reticulata

Blood stasis: history of trauma, severe knee pain, pain like a needle or knife cutting, fear of movement, dark purple tongue, deep and sluggish pulse

Treatment principle: Activate blood circulation, remove blood stasis, regulate qi and relieve pain

Prescription: Taohong Siwu Decoction with added ingredients

Peach kernel, safflower, red peony root, salvia miltiorrhiza, angelica sinensis, chuanxiong, roasted milk vetch, cyperus rotundus, and Achyranthes bidentata

Tuyuan, Shengdi, Yuanhu, Dilong, Zelan, Licorice, Panax notoginseng powder, Sappan wood, Citrus aurantium

Liver and kidney deficiency: knee pain, weakness, unsteady walking, fatigue, joint deformity

The knee is a very important part of the human body. With the increasing number of women who love beauty, many beautiful women wear short skirts in winter. Their knees are easily stimulated by the cold wind, and they are prone to knee pain over time. This disease will become more serious with age. I hope young women who love beauty will take good care of their knees and avoid getting cold.