Herniated lumbar intervertebral disc belongs to the category of “lumbar tendon injury” in Chinese orthopedics and traumatology, and whole scorpion has a certain therapeutic effect on lumbar tendon injury with wind, cold and dampness, but it needs to be used under the guidance of a doctor.
Scorpion belongs to the insect class of medicinal herbs, its flavor is pungent, nature is flat, with wind quenching spasmodic, pain relief, attacking toxicity and dispersal of the efficacy, can be used for the liver wind, spasm and convulsions, children’s convulsions (with dizziness, convulsions, convulsions as the main manifestation of pediatric diseases), hemiplegia (one side of the limbs can not be free to move), rheumatism and obstruction of the paralysis, migraine, and other headaches.
This drug is toxic, the dosage should not be too large, pregnant women should not take this drug, and its adverse reactions are not clear.
Lumbar tendon injuries are often caused by external wind, cold, dampness evil attack, fall and flutter injuries and excessive labor, and its pathogenesis is mainly lumbar meridians and collaterals are impassable, qi and blood stagnation and impassability, or kidney essence deficiency, lumbar loss of moistening and warming.
Scorpion can be used together with Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong and Myrrh to invigorate blood circulation, dispel blood stasis, expel wind and dissipate cold, and improve pain and numbness of lower limbs caused by prolonged wind-cold-dampness paralysis and localized stagnation of blood.
Whole Scorpion is suitable for lumbar tendon injuries accompanied by wind-cold-dampness paralysis. Whether it is suitable for use in other conditions should be decided under the diagnosis and treatment of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be taken blindly on one’s own.