Cerebral stenosis can be treated with Chinese medicine to alleviate the symptoms to a certain extent.
Cerebrovascular stenosis is related to headache and vertigo in Chinese medicine, and needs to be treated according to the condition.
1. Headache: If liver-yang headache patients often have pain on both sides of the head, accompanied by emotional and emotional abnormalities such as irritability, they need to calm the liver and submerge the yang (inhibit too much yang qi rising in the liver), and can use Tianma Hook Teng Drink; patients with stasis-blood headache, headache that doesn’t get better for a long time, and the place where the pain is fixed and doesn’t move, with a purple tongue and fine and astringent pulse, they need to invigorate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and can use Tongjiao Xuanxue Tang.
2. Vertigo: If patients with phlegm-dampness obstruction (phlegm-dampness evil qi stays in the spleen and stomach) will show vertigo, or accompanied by rotating vision, they need to dissolve phlegm and dispel dampness, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and can use Semixia, Atractylodes Macrocephalae and Tianma Soup; patients with deficiency of qi and blood, vertigo will be aggravated by movement, with a white complexion, and symptoms such as fatigue of the limbs and tiredness, and need to replenish qi and blood and nourish the spleen and stomach, and can use QuiShu Tang.
The above prescriptions need to be used by a TCM doctor after diagnosis, avoid self-medication to avoid adverse consequences.