Commonly used TCM treatments for cervical spondylosis include traditional Chinese medicine, massage, acupuncture and so on.
Cervical spondylosis in Chinese medicine is known as “neck paralysis”, mostly due to deficiency and strain, loss of nourishment of tendons and veins, or wind, cold, dampness and heat and other evils that block the meridians, affecting the operation of qi and blood, resulting in frequent pain and numbness in the neck and neck, and even in the head, upper limbs and other parts of the body, which may be accompanied by dizziness and other symptoms. It is mainly categorized into cold and damp obstruction type, qi and blood stagnation type, and phlegm and damp obstruction (phlegm and dampness obstructing the smooth flow of meridians) type.
1. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatment: The main purpose is to improve the loss of muscle nourishment caused by wind-cold paralysis, stagnation of qi and blood, and insufficiency of liver and kidney through diagnosis and treatment, and the medicines used are mostly to dispel wind-cold, remove blood stasis and open the channels, and tonify the liver and kidney, such as chicken-blood vines, Qiangwu, Duchenne, Gui Zhi, and so on.
2. Tui na therapy: Tui na is to relieve the patient’s discomfort through pinching, plucking, kneading, and traction to achieve the effect of soothing the tendons and activating blood circulation.
3. Acupuncture therapy: Through acupuncture to promote the operation of the meridian qi and regulate qi and blood to achieve the therapeutic purpose, mostly choose the large vertebrae, Waiguan, Hegu, Sea of Blood and other acupuncture points.
Clinical patients diagnosed with cervical spondylosis, the need for professional Chinese medicine practitioners to identify the evidence under the guidance of the development of a reasonable diagnosis and treatment program, do not blindly use their own medication, so as not to cause adverse consequences.