No surgery required, herbs can cure osteoarthritis

  Osteoarthritis is commonly known as osteophytes and bone spurs. It mainly manifests as pain, stiffness, swelling, fluid accumulation, and mobility disorders in the affected joints, and has become the most common clinical joint disease with the rapid aging of society.  The author believes that using Chinese herbal medicine to treat osteoarthritis can avoid doing surgery.  There are no specific western drugs for this disease, mostly non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, analgesics, corticosteroids and articular cartilage nutrient drugs, the first three types of drugs to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and more side effects; the latter although the root cause, but the effect is slow, the course of treatment is long, not pain relief. These drugs are mostly used for patients with mild disease.  For moderate to severe osteoarthritis, surgical intervention is often required, including surgery to preserve and repair articular cartilage, osteotomy to alter poor alignment of the joint, joint fusion to remove the joint, and artificial joint replacement.  Although these procedures can reduce or eliminate pain and improve joint function, they are associated with varying degrees of risk of complications such as infection, nerve and vascular injury, deep vein embolism and pulmonary embolism, as well as artificial joints that do not fit the patient and high medical costs and medical errors.  Drug therapy for osteoarthritis does not target bone spurs, but rather the aseptic inflammation and cartilage degeneration secondary to bone spurs.  Medications eliminate inflammation and also slow or partially repair cartilage destruction to some extent. The elimination of inflammation also stops exudation, eliminates swelling and effusion, relieves pain, and improves and restores joint function, thus achieving clinical cure. The literature reports that the total effective rate of Chinese medicine in treating all stages of osteoarthritis is 89% to 98.5%.  Osteoarthritis belongs to the category of “bone paralysis” in Chinese medicine. This disease is a deficiency of the liver and kidney, and is caused by the lack of nourishment of the tendons and bones. “The liver is the master of tendons and the kidney is the master of bones. The symptom is paralysis by blood stasis, and the veins and ligaments are blocked. Therefore, the treatment should be based on tonifying the liver and kidney, strengthening the tendons and bones, supplemented by activating blood circulation and dispelling blood stasis, and dispelling wind and clearing the channels. We use a combination of internal and external Chinese medicine to treat osteoarthritis with satisfactory results.  Internal method: Chinese herbal medicine Shen Feng Dan and Tong Piao Dan or Anti-Paralysis Soup, using 30 grams of Danshen, 15 grams each of Eucommia, Di Long and Sang Sang Sang; 10 grams each of Wei Ling Xian, Angelica Sinensis, Hai Tong Pi and Chuan Niu Kne, and 3 grams of Hosin. One dose is taken daily with water decoction in the morning and evening.  In this formula, Angelica sinensis, Salvia miltiorrhiza and Dilong nourish blood, activate blood circulation and improve microcirculation; Eucommia globulus and Sambucus nourish liver and kidney, produce essence and fill in marrow to strengthen tendons and bones; Radix et Rhizoma wei Lingxian and Haitongpi dispel wind and promote circulation; Hossein is an anti-inflammatory and analgesic; Radix et Rhizoma Chuanxiu Knee both activates blood circulation and dispels blood stasis and nourishes liver and kidney, which is the medicine to lead the meridian of the knee; Salvia miltiorrhiza and Sambucus have the effect of slowing down and repairing degeneration and damage of joint cartilage.  External treatment: Apply the magnetic patch on the swollen and painful parts of the joints and related acupuncture points. The magnetic patch, extracted by high-tech low temperature, has 16 times the drug loading capacity of the conventional patch and is magnetized to greatly improve the therapeutic effect.  It not only has significant anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects, activates blood circulation and blood stasis, relaxes tendons and channels, dispels wind and cold, expels phlegm and reduces swelling, but also contains a variety of bioactive substances, which can improve microcirculation, increase blood oxygen content and enhance bone metabolism.  The combination of internal and external treatment of Chinese medicine makes the effect of medicine in the same way, superimposing the medicinal power, and the efficacy is significantly better than the internal or external treatment alone. To date, many critically ill patients have been treated for surgery or even knee replacement. This method is also effective for cervical spondylosis, lumbar hyperplastic arthritis and knee osteoarthritis caused by osteophytes.