4. What kind of disease does Chinese medicine consider epilepsy to be? In folklore, people used to call epilepsy “lamb wind”, “sheep epilepsy”, “piggyback wind”, etc. Although the names are different, there is one obvious characteristic, that is, the name is based on the visual recognition of the patient’s seizure symptoms. The name is based on the intuitive understanding of the patient’s seizure symptoms. It is obvious that this is a basic idea that seizures are a basic feature of epileptic patients to generalize, although it is not a scientific generalization and does not capture the essential features of the disease, but it is based on symptoms. Hao Yong, Department of Neurology, Shanghai Renji Hospital Traditionally, Chinese medicine refers to epilepsy as epileptic evidence or epilepsy, and epilepsy is a later name. In the early medical books, doctors mostly mixed epilepsy, madness and epilepsy, without drawing a clear line. Later, people gradually realized that epilepsy, madness, and epilepsy are all mental and psychiatric disorders, but each of them has its own significant characteristics. Epilepsy and madness are mainly manifested as mental confusion, with movement disorders, emotional disorders, hallucinations and fantasies, and disorders of consciousness as the basic features. In medical texts, epilepsy and mania are classified as different from yin and yang. Those who are depressed, silent and demented, and incoherent are yin, epilepsy; those who are hyperactive, manic and fierce, scolding and destroying are yang, mania. Epilepsy is mainly characterized by varying degrees of mental disorders, and in severe cases, a sudden fainting, unconsciousness, salivation, and twitching of the limbs, and after the seizure, it is no different from a normal person. Strictly speaking, traditional Chinese medicine does not have a very accurate and scientific definition of epilepsy, although the understanding of epilepsy in Chinese medicine was recorded more than 2000 years ago, for example, there is a special article on “infantile epilepsy formula” in the “Fifty-two Disease Formula” in the Mawangdui Han Tomb Palermo Book. For example, in the “Fifty-two Disease Formula” of the Mawangdui Han tomb, there is a special article on “Infantile Epilepsy Formula”, which records in some detail the treatment of epilepsy with “Leiwan” and medicinal baths, and analyzes the characteristics of some symptoms such as “epilepsy with fever and several frights, strong neck and spine and large abdomen”. 5. What are the symptoms of seizures according to Chinese medicine? (1) There is often a history of fright before the onset of seizures. During seizures, the patient screams, spits out his tongue, cries sharply, is in a trance, his face is sometimes red and sometimes white, he is frightened and restless, as if he is about to be arrested. (2) The onset of epilepsy is characterized by congestion of phlegm and saliva, phlegm sounding in the throat, staring straight ahead, confusion, demented appearance, disorientation, or falling to the ground, less obvious twitching of the hands and feet, or partial twitching, and gradual mental retardation. (3) The seizure is often caused by high fever, when the attack suddenly falls down, confusion, neck and whole body tonic, followed by twitching of limbs, eyes upward or oblique, teeth closed, foaming at the mouth, lips and face blue is wind epilepsy. If the seizure occurs with dizziness and vertigo, confusion, unilateral or extremity convulsions, fixed convulsion site and dynamics, headache or dizziness, and dry and hard stools like sheep stool, it is stasis epilepsy. (4) Seizures in remission for a long time, with atrophy, dizziness and weakness, phlegm and generalized evil, unpleasant food, and loose stools are evidence of spleen deficiency and phlegm. The most common symptoms of seizures are dizziness, dizziness, weakness of the waist and knees, and poor memory. 6. The majority of patients with epilepsy have loss of consciousness during seizures. However, some types of epilepsy, such as limited seizures and myoclonic epilepsy, are clearly conscious during seizures. Therefore, the diagnosis of epilepsy should not be denied just because the patient does not lose consciousness.