Can Chinese medicine cure vasculitis?

There is no evidence that traditional Chinese medicine can completely cure vasculitis, but as an adjunctive treatment, traditional Chinese medicine can alleviate the discomfort caused by vasculitis, such as cold and pain in the limbs. Vasculitis is a kind of chronic recurrent vascular occlusive disease mainly involving the middle and small veins at the end of the limbs and distributed in stages, and its clinicopathological manifestation is mostly the staged, non-suppurative inflammation with thrombosis of the blood vessel wall of the limbs. It belongs to the category of “gangrene” and “pulse paralysis” in Chinese medicine. Typical clinical manifestations of this disease are pain, swelling, change of skin color, numbness, coldness, etc. With the aggravation of the disease, intermittent claudication and Raynaud’s phenomenon may appear, or even ulcers and gangrene, which is a kind of malignant Chinese surgical disease. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that vasculitis is a symptom of deficiency, mostly due to emotional upset, physical Yang deficiency, feeling cold, vein occlusion leading to loss of moistening of the limbs and veins, resulting in limb pain, numbness, pain and unfavorable activities. The clinical symptoms can be improved by warming yang, dispersing cold, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis through traditional Chinese medicine. Clinically, it is divided into Yin-cold syndrome of the veins and collaterals, and the prescription is Yanghe Tang with additional reduction to warm the meridians, disperse cold, and activate blood circulation; blood stasis syndrome of the veins and collaterals, and the prescription is Hematopoietic Blood Stasis Tang with additional reduction; stasis-heat syndrome of the veins and collaterals, and the prescription is SiMiaoYongAn Tang with additional reduction to nourish yin and clear heat, and activate blood circulation; deficiency of qi and blood, the prescription is Ginseng Nourishing Rong Pill or Bazhen YiMu Pill to regulate the qi and blood. If patients with vasculitis need to receive Chinese medicine as an adjunctive therapy, it is recommended that they go to a regular medical institution to follow the doctor’s instructions for medication.