Traumatic brain injury can be divided into 3 types: scalp injury, skull injury, and intracranial tissue (brain) injury. But often combined, the more common is concussion (concussion). Traumatic brain injury is mostly caused by direct violence, especially fall and impact injuries are the most; the second is the impact; a few are caused by indirect violence. The main pathogenesis of traumatic brain injury is the injury of blood vessels in the skull caused by trauma, and the blood stasis stays inside the skull, compressing the brain marrow and causing headache, vertigo, vomiting and other symptoms. In the early stage of traumatic brain injury, qi stagnation and blood stasis are the main causes, and in the later stage, qi and blood deficiency and liver and kidney deficiency are the main causes. Therefore, the principle of food therapy for this disease is mainly to relieve blood stasis in the early stage, accompanied by food to promote the clearing and lowering of turbidity, aromatic and open the orifice, such as panax pseudoginseng, hawthorn, patchouli, pelargonium, nourishing vegetables and other products; in the late stage, it is appropriate to eat nutritious food such as grapes, black beans, wolfberry, cinnamon meat, turtle meat, etc. to nourish qi and blood and nourish the liver and kidney. In addition, because the main symptom of traumatic brain injury is vertigo, and in severe cases, nausea, vomiting, headache or even coma, it is advisable to eat more fresh vegetables, fruits and beans in the diet, avoid spicy, fishy and other thick flavors and tobacco and alcohol stimulating products, and avoid all things that help fire and produce phlegm.
In Chinese medicine, the disease is classified into two types.
Qi stagnation and blood stasis type
(Preliminary stage): There are 3 types: mild, medium and severe, with different degrees of injury. Mild cases only appear dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus in a short time and disappear quickly; moderate cases can faint on the spot and wake up within a few minutes to an hour, mostly with headache, dizziness or nausea and vomiting, usually lasting 1 to 2 days, many up to several days, with irritability or mild fever; severe cases have a longer period of delirium, often complicated by light and heavy head, face, limbs and spine injuries, and even death after the injury to 1 day and night.
Qi and blood deficiency, liver and kidney weakness type
(Late stage): In this stage, the clinical symptoms include persistent dizziness, weakness, short voice, no speech, strong neck, shortness of breath in sleep, little diet, dry stools, and soft waist and knees. Local bruising, hardness, swelling and pain, or bleeding or epistaxis, red tongue with petechiae, and sunken, thin and astringent pulse.
Food therapy for identification
I. Qi stagnation and blood stasis type
(1) Peach kernel congee
Composition】10-15 grams of peach kernel, 30-60 grams of round-grained rice.
Functions】Eliminating blood stasis and relieving pain, activating blood circulation and reducing swelling.
Usage and dosage】Peach kernel is pounded like mud, add water and grind off the slag, boil japonica rice as porridge with the juice. 2 times in 1 day, eat warm on an empty stomach, and take for 7-10 days.
(2) Hawthorn Ice Sugar Decoction
Composition】15 grams of hawthorn, appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Functions】Activate blood circulation and disperse blood stasis, harmonize the stomach and clear heat. It is suitable for patients with traumatic brain injury and hypertension and hyperlipidemia.
Usage and dosage】Take with water, once a day for 10-15 days.
(3) Chuanxiong Tea
Composition】Chuanxiong 3-6 grams, flower tea 3-6 grams.
Functions】Activate blood circulation and dispel blood stasis, move Qi and relieve depression, dispel wind and relieve pain.
Usage and dosage】Take the juice with water and drink as tea for 7 to 10 days.
(4) Saffron Drink
Composition】Safflower 10 grams, sophora 10 grams, angelica 10 grams, brown sugar, white wine appropriate amount.
Functions and Indications】To invigorate blood circulation, remove blood stasis, promote circulation and relieve pain. It is suitable for hematoma and pain of fracture.
Dosage and Administration】Fry safflower and sumac first, then add angelica and white wine and fry again. Remove the residue, extract the juice and add brown sugar. Take 2-3 times daily for 3-4 weeks before eating.
Second, deficiency of qi and blood, liver and kidney weakness type
(1) Tianma pig brain soup
Composition】1 pig brain, 10 grams of asparagus.
Functions and Indications】Tonic marrow, calm the liver and relieve pain. It is especially suitable for those who suffer from headache and dizziness and insomnia after traumatic brain injury.
The use and dosage】Pig brain, asparagus into a pot, add water, cook and stew for 1 hour with a gentle fire into a thick soup, drink soup and eat pig brain. 2 times a day, and even serve 3 to 4 weeks.
(2) snapper nourishing kidney soup
Composition] 1 snapper (300 grams or more), 30 grams of Chinese wolfberry, 15 grams of rehmannia.
Functions】Nourishing Yin and tonifying the kidney. Suitable for traumatic brain injury, see liver and kidney yin deficiency of the waist and knee soreness and weakness. Patients with dizziness and tinnitus, insomnia and distress.
Usage and dosage: Scald the snapper in boiling water, chop off the head and claws, remove the nails and internal organs, wash and cut into small cubes, put into the pot. And then put people washed wolfberry, ripe ground, add water to the appropriate amount, the fire boil, the fire stew snapper meat, cooked that is ready, eat in portions. 1 to 2 times a day, for 3 to 4 weeks.
(3) Ginseng and lotus meat soup
Composition】10 grams of white ginseng, 15 lotus seeds, 30 grams of rock sugar.
Functions and Indications】Supplementing Qi, strengthening the spleen, nourishing the heart and kidney. It is suitable for patients with traumatic brain injury with little diet and sleeplessness.
Usage and dosage】Put the white man’s lotus seeds in a bowl with the core removed and soak in water until thoroughly. Then add rock sugar, place in a pot and stew for 1 hour in water, then eat. Once a day for 3 to 4 weeks.
(4) Angelica Wuxia pig blood soup
Composition】15 grams of Angelica Sinensis, 250 grams of Dong Quai Cauliflower, 15 grams of Cistanches, 125 grams of pig blood, sesame oil, cooked lard, white onion, salt and monosodium glutamate.
Functions】Nourish blood, moisten the intestines and open the bowels. It is suitable for patients with liver and kidney yin deficiency and large easy knots after traumatic brain injury.
Usage and Dosage】 Wash the angelica body and meat ash rhizome, add the right amount of water and boil the liquid for use. Wash the dong quai dish, put it in the liquid and boil it until it is cooked, then add the boiled pig blood and lard and other seasonings together, mix well and eat it on an empty stomach while it is hot. Take it once a day for 3-4 weeks.
(5) Steamed Chicken with Panax ginseng
Composition】250 grams of breast meat of hen, 15 grams of Panax ginseng powder, appropriate amount of rock sugar (pounded fine).
Functions】Stopping bleeding and replenishing the blood. It is suitable for patients with traumatic brain injury and weakness of blood and Qi.
Dosage】Mix panax pseudoginseng powder, rock sugar and chicken slices, and steam it in water. 3 times in 1 day for 3 to 4 weeks.