How does Traditional Chinese Medicine treat peripheral neuropathy?

In daily life, peripheral neuritis is a disease we often hear about. So how does traditional Chinese medicine treat this disease? The editor will share some methods with you below, let’s take a look!

Causes

1. Poisoning such as heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, mercury, phosphorus, drugs such as furacillin, isoniazid, streptomycin, phenytoin sodium, carbamazepine, vincristine, and organic compounds such as organophosphorus pesticides. 2. Nutritional metabolic disorders such as vitamin B deficiency, diabetes, uremia, chronic gastrointestinal diseases, pregnancy, etc.

3. The infection is often accompanied or secondary to various acute and chronic infections, such as dysentery, tuberculosis, infectious hepatitis, typhoid fever, mumps, etc. A few cases may be caused by direct invasion of peripheral nerves by pathogens, such as leprosy neuritis.

4. Allergic reactions, such as neuritis after serum treatment or vaccination.

5. Others such as connective tissue diseases, hereditary diseases such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, hereditary ataxia peripheral neuritis, hereditary sensory radiculoneuropathy, etc. In addition, various cancers of the body can also cause polyneuritis, and may occur several months before the primary lesion shows clinical symptoms, so this should be a cause for concern. Except for inflammatory changes in peripheral nerves caused by a few causes (such as leprosy), pathological changes are mainly segmental demyelination and axonal degeneration of peripheral nerves, or both. A few cases may be accompanied by changes in the neuromuscular junction.

treat

The onset of this disease can be acute or slow depending on the cause. The main clinical manifestations are symmetrical sensory, motor and autonomic dysfunction mainly in the distal limbs, and are often more severe in the lower limbs.

A proven Chinese medicine recipe for internal use: 45 grams of Millettia reticulata, 30 grams of raw Astragalus, 12 grams each of cinnamon twig and white peony root, 9 grams each of angelica, peach kernel, safflower, and Chuanxiong, 5 slices of ginger, and 5 dates. Take it in decoction, 1 dose per day. One course of treatment is 7 days.

A proven Chinese medicine recipe for external washing: 9 grams each of Kochia scoparia, Cnidium monnieri, and Phellodendron amurense, 6 grams each of Sophora flavescens and Myrrha. Boil in water for 5 to 10 minutes, soak and wash the affected area when warm. Repeat the heating for 4 to 5 times. 7 doses constitute a course of treatment. Generally, 1 to 2 courses of treatment will produce significant results.

The above Chinese medicine prescriptions for treating peripheral neuritis have different therapeutic effects and the selection should also vary from person to person.