Acupuncture treatment for frightening wind

  Convulsions, also known as convulsions, are common critical illnesses in children, and can occur in the course of many diseases, characterized by clinical convulsions with mental disturbances. Its sudden onset, rapid changes, and dangerous evidence, as one of the four major evidence of pediatrics in Chinese medicine. It occurs in children aged 1-5 years, and the younger the age, the higher the incidence. According to its clinical manifestations, it is divided into two categories: acute and slow panic wind, with rapid onset and clinical manifestations of real evidence. The clinical manifestations are mostly real. The slow panic wind mostly comes from a long illness, and can also come from the transformation of acute panic wind, and the clinical manifestations are mostly deficiency evidence.  In Western medicine, convulsions caused by high fever, meningitis, encephalitis, low blood calcium, cerebral insufficiency, epilepsy, etc. belong to this category.  The main causes of acute convulsions are external evil, internal accumulation of phlegm and heat, and violent fright. The main etiology of acute convulsions is external evil, from heat to fire, the extreme heat produces wind; the uncontrolled diet, food stagnation and phlegm stagnation, fire and wind; the violent fright, Qi reversal, and convulsions. The main pathogenesis is that heat closes the heart orifice, heat is strong and moves wind, and phlegm is strong and causes convulsions. Heat, phlegm, wind and shock are the main pathological manifestations of acute convulsions. The lesions are located in the heart and liver. Chronic frightening wind is caused by deficiency of endowment and deficiency of the liver and kidneys, with spleen and kidney yang deficiency or liver and kidney yin deficiency as the main cause. Due to violent vomiting and diarrhea, prolonged vomiting and prolonged diarrhea, or loss of vital energy after warm fever, deficiency of spleen and kidney, insufficient source of transformation; or deficiency of liver and kidney yin, internal movement of deficiency wind. The lesions are in the spleen, kidney and liver.  2.Defense evidence Main symptoms: generalized tonic or paroxysmal muscle spasms, may have confusion.  The initial onset is often characterized by strong heat, red face, restlessness, shaking of the head and tongue, clenching of teeth, awakening from sleep, followed by dizziness, closing of the teeth, upward vision of the eyes, straightening of the neck, angle-arch, twitching and trembling of the limbs, shortness of breath, slightly yellow coating, floating or slippery pulse, which is phlegm-heat-generated wind.  Slow onset of the disease is slow onset of wind, commonly yellow face and thin muscles, physical and mental fatigue, limbs are not warm, weak breathing, low fontanelle, drowsy eyes, and occasional convulsions. At the same time, we can see thin stools, greenish color, swelling of the feet and tarsus and face, light tongue with thin coating, sunken and sluggish pulse, for the spleen and Yang deficiency; tired and tired, flushed face, heat in the heart of the hands and feet, light tongue with little or no coating, sunken and thin pulse, for the liver and kidney Yin deficiency.  Treatment (1) Acute frightening wind Treatment: Awaken the brain and open the orifices, quench the wind and calm the fright. The main points are the Governor’s Vessel and the Foot Conjunctive Yin Meridian.  Main acupuncture point: Shuigou Yin Tang Hegu Taichong.  Operation: Milli-needle diarrhea method. Dazhi and Shixuan are punctured and bleeding.  Meaning of the formula: Shuigou and Yin Tang can awaken the brain and open the orifices. Hegu and Taichong together, said to open the four gates, good at quenching the wind and calming the panic.  (2) Slowly frightening wind Treatment: Strengthening the spleen and kidney, subduing fright and quenching wind. Main points: Shuigou, Yintang, and Yin Tang.  Main points: Shuigou, Yin Tang, Qi Hai, Shu San Li, Tai Chong.  Supporting points: for deficiency of spleen and kidney yang, add Shen Que, Guan Yuan and Kidney Yu; for deficiency of liver and kidney yin, add Tai Xi and Liver Yu.  Operation: Shuigou, Yintang and Taichong use the milli-needle laxative method; Qihai and Sansili use the tonic method.  Meaning of the formula: Shuigou and Yin Tang can awaken the brain and open the orifice; Qi Hai can benefit Qi and cultivate Yuan; Shu San Li can tonify the spleen and strengthen the stomach; Tai Chong can calm the liver and quench the wind.