Chinese herbal medicine for tendon and bone repair

Tendon and bone setting is a treatment method for patients with fractures and tendon ruptures. The treatment methods include manipulation, acupuncture or medication. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods are very effective in repairing tendons and setting bones. During the treatment process, you can also consume some Chinese herbal medicines that can repair tendons and set bones, but you must pay attention to the method and dosage of consumption and follow the doctor's instructions. Do not take medicine on your own easily.

Drug therapy for tendon and bone repair

1. Blood circulation and bone setting method: This type of prescriptions include the yellow powder medicine in "Li Shang Xu Duan Fang" for internal use and the bone setting ointment in "Trauma Science" for external use. It is indicated for fractures that have just entered the middle stage and the redness and swelling are still severe.

2. Bone setting and pain relief method: The internal prescription includes the Bone Setting Pill (also known as Qiming Bone Setting Pill) in "Lecture Notes on Traditional Chinese Traumatology", and the external prescription includes the External Bone Setting Powder in "Lecture Notes on Traditional Chinese Traumatology". This method is more effective than bone setting and is suitable for those with severe pain.

3. Bone-setting and blood-stasis-dispersing method: The internal prescriptions include Xinshang Xuduan Decoction in "Lectures on Traumatology of Traditional Chinese Medicine", Jiegu Zijindan in "Xizhuo on the Origin of Miscellaneous Diseases", and Balinsan in "Golden Mirror of Medical Ancestral". The external prescriptions include Bogusan in "Traumatology". This method is used for mid-term bone setting with severe blood stasis.

4. Blood stasis-breaking and bone-setting method: For internal use, there are the Dida Pills listed in the "National Collection of Chinese Medicine Prescriptions", and for external use, there are the Shujin Huoxue Washing Recipe listed in the "Treatment Methods for Common Traumatology Diseases". It is used for mid-term bone setting with severe blood stasis.

Chinese herbal medicine for tendon and bone repair

Drynaria fortunei

Drynaria has the effects of healing wounds and relieving pain, nourishing the kidneys and strengthening bones; it can also eliminate wind and remove freckles when used externally. It is used for falls, sprains, fractures of tendons and bones, low back pain due to kidney deficiency, weakness of tendons and bones, tinnitus, deafness, loose teeth; it can also be used externally to treat alopecia areata and vitiligo.

Cucumber seeds

Cucumber seeds

Cucumber seeds have the effects of strengthening tendons and bones, dispelling wind and eliminating phlegm. Used for fractures, tendon injuries, rheumatic pain, and phlegm and asthma in the elderly.

Small bone

Small bone has the effect of removing blood stasis, relieving pain, and repairing tendons and bones. Used for traumatic injuries, tendon injuries and fractures, rheumatic bone pain, blood stasis and amenorrhea, and postpartum abdominal pain.

Natural Copper

Natural copper has the effect of dispersing blood stasis, relieving pain, and repairing tendons and bones. Used for traumatic injuries, fractures of tendons and bones, bruises and pains.

Soil beetle

The Chinese earthworm has the effect of breaking blood, removing blood stasis, and repairing tendons and bones. It is used for traumatic injuries, tendon injuries and fractures, blood stasis and amenorrhea, abdominal pain due to blood stasis after childbirth, and abdominal masses and lumps.

Melon seeds

Melon seeds have the effects of clearing the lungs, moistening the intestines, removing blood stasis, discharging pus, healing wounds and relieving pain. Used for lung heat cough, constipation, lung abscess, intestinal abscess, bruises, and tendon and bone fractures.

Dipsacus

Dipsacus asper has the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, strengthening the tendons and bones, healing fractures, and stopping metrorrhagia. It is used for liver and kidney deficiency, soreness of waist and knees, rheumatic pain, injuries from falls, tendon injuries and fractures, metrorrhagia and fetal leakage.

Methods of tendon and bone setting

Manipulation techniques: In the middle stage of fracture, the local swelling has subsided, but there is still pain. The doctor will use smoothing, rubbing, kneading, and collateral manipulation to harmonize qi and blood and connect tendons and bones.

Acupuncture method: In the middle and late stages of fracture, use the draining method of acupuncture at Taixi, Zusanli, Quchi, and Hegu. It has the effect of harmonizing Qi and blood, and repairing tendons and bones.

Note: In clinical application of tendon-repairing and bone-setting drugs, they must not be used too early. They should be used later and less, while more tendon-relaxing, blood-activating, qi-moving and blood-stasis-removing drugs should be used. Otherwise, the local soft tissue of the fracture will form a nodule, excessive callus will be formed, and even the physiological function of the joint will be affected.