Hormone shock therapy is usually a one-time application of large amounts of hormones to treat relatively acute inflammatory edema of tissues and organs, leading to life-threatening or severe dysfunctional diseases. For example, pneumonia, or lung injury resulting in severe pulmonary edema with respiratory distress, or allergic reactions resulting in laryngeal edema, pulmonary edema with respiratory distress and generalized cyanosis. For acute cranio-cerebral injury or neurological injury, localized neurological or cerebral edema can be eliminated with large amounts of hormone shock to relieve the symptoms. However, the use of large amounts of hormones can also have certain side effects, such as depressed immune function, and can also affect the gastrointestinal tract, leading to abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and in severe cases, acute gastrointestinal bleeding may occur.