Tourette’s syndrome in children belongs to the category of “blending” and “convulsions” in Chinese medicine, which is a kind of neuropsychiatric disorders with involuntary, recurrent, sudden, and rhythmless as its main characteristics, and can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine according to the different types of symptoms such as hyperactive yang and wind, external wind (wind evils felt outside the nature) and Yin deficiency and wind. It can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine according to the different types of Yang hyperactivity, external wind (wind evils felt outside the natural world) induced, and yin deficiency wind activity.
1. Hyperactivity of yang and wind: Tianma Hookteng Drink can be taken to calm the liver and submerge the yang, calm the wind and stop spasm (to calm the wind and relieve spasm), which mainly consists of Tianma, Hookteng, Scutellaria baicalensis and so on, and it can treat the symptoms of hyperactivity of liver and yang (the yang of the liver is over-exuberant, which causes dizziness, dizziness, headache and other symptoms).
2. External wind-induced activation: Yin Qiao San can be taken to dispel wind, relieve spasm, which is mainly composed of honeysuckle, mint, platycodon, forsythia, etc., and can be used to treat the symptoms of malignant cold (fear of cold), fever, cough, and headache.
3. Yin deficiency and wind movement: can be taken to nourish yin and soften the liver, resting the wind and stopping the movement, which is mainly composed of Colla Corii Asini, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix et Rhizoma Ophiopogonis, Rhizoma Ophiopogonis, Radix Paeoniae Alba and so on, and can be used for treating late stage of warm disease, the evidence of yin deficiency and wind.
This disease needs a longer time to treat, in addition to drinking traditional Chinese medicine, it can also be combined with acupuncture, tuina and other ways of integrated treatment. Tourette’s syndrome patients should actively go to the hospital, under the guidance of the physician’s identification and standardization of medication, do not take medication on their own.