Chinese medicine understanding of cerebral palsy

  In Chinese medicine, there is no concept of cerebral palsy, but it is classified as “impotence”, “five delays”, “five softnesses”, “five hardnesses” and “dementia” in Chinese medicine. It is classified as “impotence”, “five delays”, “five softnesses”, “five hardnesses” and “dementia” in Chinese medicine. Impotence refers to a disease in which the tendons and veins are sluggish, weak and unable to move at will; the five delays refer to the delay in standing, walking, hair, teeth and speech; the five softnesses refer to the softness of the head and neck, mouth, hands, feet and muscles? What are the five softnesses? On paediatric hemiplegia? Cloud “hand and foot spasms, the body is like mud, are not greater than the gas limbs”. The pathogenic mechanism is a deficiency of congenital endowment or improper treatment of acquired diseases, so that the liver, kidney, spleen deficiency or blood stasis internal obstruction, the lesion site in the head. Li Shizhen proposed that “the brain is the house of the genitals”, and Wang Qingren proposed that “the spiritual memory is not in the heart but in the brain”. Further analysis shows that the brain has the role of main thinking, main memory, main idea, main movement, main regulation and director of things. At the same time, Chinese medicine believes that “the kidney is the root of the innate nature”, “the kidney is the master of bone and produces marrow which is connected to the brain, and the brain is the sea of marrow”, and “if the kidney is deficient, the marrow of the brain is not nourished”. The Ling Shu – evil qi viscera disease shape” chapter said: “twelve meridians, three hundred and sixty-five complexes, the qi and blood are on the face and take the empty orifices.” The six yang meridians of the hands and feet all follow the head and face, while some of the six yin meridians follow the head and face, and some reach the head and face through their meridians that merge into the yang meridians that are on the same level. Jin San acupuncture points are mainly taken according to the identification of meridians or modern anatomical theories, such as the “four divine acupuncture points” is in accordance with the function of the cerebral cortex positioned in the projection area of the scalp and the theory of “rather lose its points, do not lose its meridians” to group prescriptions, and more than the ancient The “Zhi San Zhen” is located in the frontal region, which is composed of Shenting and the left and right Ben Shen, and is closely related to Shen Zhi, and modern medicine believes that the frontal lobe of the brain is related to intelligence. “In addition, the kidney collects the will, the main bone produces marrow, the brain is the sea of marrow, according to the theory of the root cause of the symptoms, the Yongquan point is the root of the kidney meridian, the upper disease is taken down, so “foot wisdom needle” to take the main point of Yongquan, most of these formulas are based on 3 Most of these formulas are based on 3 acupuncture points as a group, with simple methods, short operation time, and mostly focused on the head, suitable for a longer period of time, relatively easy to be accepted by children and parents.