What items are good for treating osteoarthritis with traditional Chinese medicine?

  In daily life, most people suffering from osteoarthritis are mainly treated with oral Western medicine. Western medicine does have certain effect through anti-inflammatory and analgesic, but the side effects brought by Western medicine are not negligible, and there are few cases of gastritis, stomach pain, poor appetite and physical weakness caused by oral anti-inflammatory medicine. In fact, Western medicine is not the only way to treat osteoarthritis.   Osteoarthritis, the so-called proliferative osteoarthritis, degenerative joint disease, age-related arthritis, hypertrophic arthritis, osteoarthritis. Its pathogenesis is mainly the degeneration and degeneration of soft tissues such as cartilage and ligaments that make up the joints, the formation of bone spurs at the edges of the joints or changes such as thickening of synovial membranes, which leads to bone destruction and causes secondary osteophytes that lead to joint deformation.  We found that in many corners of the city are equipped with massage massage, cupping, gua sha and other Chinese medicine special health care projects, which can be seen that the traditional Chinese medicine health care awareness deep into the hearts of the people. However, not everyone is suitable for these health care programs, because everyone has different physical symptoms. In the face of so many traditional Chinese medicine, which items have a good effect on the treatment of osteoarthritis, the following four methods are introduced: Method 1: “pain point-based” acupuncture therapy is the local selection of pain points for acupuncture, pain points are also known as the point, generally not limited to a meridian, combined with distant acupuncture points to adjust the internal organs deficiency The two complement each other to improve the therapeutic effect. It can also be combined with nerve segments and nerve trunk routes to take points.  Method 2: Massage and tui-na therapy Stimulate certain parts of the patient’s body surface through massage and movement of the patient’s limbs. Its effect is to open the meridians, smooth the qi and blood, with the effect of eliminating stasis, moving stagnation, dispersing swelling, relieving pain, and promoting local nutrition, preventing muscle atrophy and repairing damage.  Method 3: Cupping therapy is the use of fire cans as a tool, using the burning method to form a negative pressure inside the cans, so that it is tightly adsorbed on the body surface of the acupuncture point or the site should be cupped, causing the skin of the cupped area is congested or bruised, and to achieve the purpose of treatment of disease. There are many methods of cupping, including flash fire method, cast fire method, frame fire method, paste cotton method, etc.  Method 4: Physical external treatment method.  For those whose joints have been deformed and the exact location of local acupuncture points has been affected, acupuncture treatment can be disregarded and external treatment methods such as external application of drugs, heat therapy, light therapy and magnetic therapy can be used appropriately.