People know that people who love to eat meat and drink alcohol, are obese, and do not like to eat breakfast are prone to gallstones, but it is not clear that people with digestive diseases, people who have lost weight, vegetarians, people with bad habits (smoking, lack of exercise), and people who work under stress and psychological pressure are also prone to gallstones. According to Chinese medicine, the main cause is the violation of the balance of yin and yang in the body, resulting in digestive and metabolic disorders.
Recently, a patient with gallbladder stones, whose stones were nearly 2 cm in size, took strong lithotriptic drugs, resulting in the stones being embedded in the neck of the gallbladder, causing enlargement of the gallbladder and accumulation of fluid, which eventually caused gallbladder perforation and endangered his life. It is also common to see many people spend a lot of money and make a lot of efforts to perform lithotripsy and lithotripsy treatment, but the results are not satisfactory. According to Chinese medicine, not to add any health care and treatment for gallstone disease, or to be too obsessed with lithotripsy, are biased.
There are five major misunderstandings in the diagnosis and treatment of cholelithiasis
A. It is a common disease, no big deal
Gallstone disease includes many conditions, and stones in the gallbladder and bile ducts (intrahepatic and extrahepatic) are different, and there are differences in treatment between inflammation and non-inflammation. Some people with gallstone disease have no major problems for life, but others have life-threatening gallbladder perforation due to stone impaction, or severe cholangitis due to stones. Therefore, people suffering from gallstone disease should pay attention to the disease, carefully understand the specific situation of gallstones and the possible symptoms, and take necessary treatment and life care under the guidance of doctors to prevent the aggravation of the disease.
Second, asymptomatic stones do not require treatment
Some gallstone patients usually have no symptoms and feel no need for treatment, this view is not correct. The occurrence of gallstones indicates that the internal digestive system of human body, especially the bile metabolism, has problems, and if left unattended, more lesions may appear, such as large gallstones, or changes in the wall of gallbladder, older age, family history of tumor, etc. may evolve into gallbladder cancer. There are also data confirming that the incidence of colon cancer is higher in gallstone patients than in the general population. Therefore, it is necessary for gallstone patients to have reasonable treatment.
Blindly believe in some advertisements that “a single prescription can cure a big disease
Some informal hospitals, under the signboard of “lithotripsy and lithotripsy”, casually treat patients regardless of the specific situation of gallstone disease in order to obtain economic benefits, while some patients, due to lack of medical knowledge, believe that one or two times can cure the disease, and are deceived, spending a lot of money without any improvement in the disease. The treatment of cholelithiasis depends on the specific situation, some can be treated with drug therapy, some should take surgery, provided that the decision should be made by a doctor in a regular hospital.
Fourth, gallstone patients should completely say goodbye to meat and oil
It is generally known that the occurrence of cholelithiasis is related to diet, eating non-vegetarian food may cause attacks, so some patients are afraid to eat a little non-vegetarian food, and over time, malnutrition and other situations. In fact, this view is not entirely correct. Eating excessive high-fat, high-cholesterol food is prone to gallstone disease and cholecystitis, especially at the onset of the disease should not be consumed, but usually you can choose some plant-based protein or low-fat meat foods, such as tenderloin, chicken breast, etc., but also optional low-fat or skim milk, etc., to maintain the normal physiological needs.
Five, easy surgery, blind lithotripsy
Some patients think that if they have gallstone disease, it is better to have surgery, but it is not. For simple gallbladder stones and cholecystitis, surgical treatment can generally achieve a curative effect. For bile duct stones, especially intrahepatic bile duct stones, a single surgery or sometimes multiple surgeries still cannot achieve a cure. In some elderly patients, due to poor health and high risk of surgery, non-surgical treatment is usually taken as much as possible until it is necessary. Therefore, the decision to do surgery or not to do surgery should be differentiated according to the condition. Some patients also consider lithotripsy, but this method is not appropriate for gallstone disease itself, such as gallbladder stones, even if the larger stones are broken into smaller stones, there is still the problem of inability to drain or recurrence, and it has no effect on the cystic wall lesions caused by inflammation of the gallbladder. For intrahepatic bile duct stones, vibration wave lithotripsy also has damage to liver tissue. Lithotripsy for cholelithiasis is rarely applied at present.
In gallstone disease, it is important to pay attention to both health and symptomatic treatment
1, diet, living and emotional regulation must be taken into account
According to Chinese medicine, there are five viscera and six internal organs, the gallbladder is one of the six internal organs, and is the inner essence of the internal organs, which contains gold juice (bile), the gallbladder is attached to the liver, the main drainage, its role is to regulate the storage and excretion of bile, participate in the digestion and absorption of water and grain essence. The normal function of the liver and gallbladder is directly related to gallstone disease. The people know that love meat and wine, obesity, do not like to eat breakfast is prone to gallstone disease, but do not know that some suffer from digestive diseases, weight loss, vegetarianism, bad habits (smoking, lack of physical exercise), stressful work are very easy to lead to gallstone disease, the main reason is that the above situation is contrary to the balance of yin and Yang in the body, resulting in digestion and metabolic disorders, and therefore get sick. Therefore, Chinese medicine emphasizes that grains can nourish people, but also harm people, and emotional damage is the longest of all diseases. Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the diet, labor and rest, and emotional and spiritual regimen of patients with cholelithiasis, which is called “three parts treatment, seven parts nourishment”.
2. “Seeking the root of the disease”, “slowing down the symptoms”, “treating both the symptoms and the root”
Chinese medicine cares about treating the root of the disease. The occurrence of gallstone disease is due to the dysfunction of the internal organs, causing abnormal bile metabolism and disease. Longer consumption of Chinese medicine can prevent the recurrence of stones.
In Chinese medicine, “treating the symptoms in an urgent manner and treating the root cause in a slow manner”. The principle of gallstone treatment is to remove stones from the bile and eliminate the disease at its root. However, when inflammation or acute symptoms appear, the focus of treatment should be on detoxification and anti-inflammation to relieve symptoms and control the disease in time to avoid pus and perforation of the gallbladder or inflammation of the bile duct. Clinical practice proves that herbal treatment can enable many patients to avoid acute surgery and prevent some complications caused by surgery. Further etiological treatment can be carried out when the condition improves. Therefore, the treatment of cholelithiasis in TCM is not static, it reflects the principle of “diagnosis and treatment” in TCM.
”Treat both the symptoms and the root cause”. Chinese medicine also attaches great importance to the treatment of “symptoms”. Most patients with cholelithiasis often have symptoms of indigestion such as abdominal distension, croup, loss of appetite and poor bowel movement, which seriously affect the patient’s diet. Through TCM treatment, the symptoms can be improved and the patient’s normal life can be maintained. Another characteristic of TCM treatment is the “holistic concept”. In addition to gallstone disease, some patients may also have other organ pathologies that affect each other, such as biliary heart syndrome. TCM believes that all organs of the human body are interconnected, and there is a causal relationship between diseases and illnesses, so in treatment, we must pay attention to the local and take into account the whole body. Many patients who have come to see cholelithiasis have improved not only the symptoms of cholelithiasis, but also the symptoms of other diseases after taking Chinese medicine, thus increasing their confidence in treating the disease.
3. “Do not treat existing diseases to cure the future diseases”
Traditional Chinese medicine has always emphasized the prevention of diseases, which is the way of “health care”, including food therapy, physical therapy and body cultivation. To sum up, patients should pay attention to the following aspects: reasonable diet (low fat, low protein, low cholesterol, less fried food, etc.), diet should be moderate and regular; appropriate physical exercise, and according to the age and physical condition, choose different forms of exercise; maintain a normal state of mind to face work and life, and face their disease squarely, such as excessive belittlement or emphasis on the disease will have a negative impact on the treatment of the disease. It will have a negative impact on the treatment of the disease; you can also learn from your doctor about some methods of self-care for gallstone disease, such as massage.