Knee disease belongs to the category of “paralysis” in traditional Chinese medicine, and the main treatments include internal Chinese medicine, acupuncture and moxibustion, and external application of traditional Chinese medicine creams and other treatments.
1. Internal Chinese medicine: for the pain and soreness of the knee joint caused by wind-cold and dampness, it is often used to treat with the addition and subtraction of Fangfeng Tang, Wutou Tang and Coix Seed Soup; for the redness, swelling and hot pain of the knee joint caused by wind-dampness and heat, it is often used to treat with Baihu Plus Guizhi Tang; for the swelling, deformation and tingling of the joints caused by phlegm and stagnation paralysis, it is often used to treat with Double Harmony Soup.
2. Acupuncture and moxibustion: Acupuncture and moxibustion can be selected calabash point, inside and outside the knee eye, foot Sanli point, yinlingquan point, yanglingquan point, commission in the middle of the point for tonic and diarrhea treatment, and at the same time, for the wind-cold and dampness caused by the knee joint disease, you can use moxibustion foot Sanli point, yinlingquan point to alleviate the symptoms.
3. External application of traditional Chinese medicine: For knee diseases caused by wind-cold and dampness, you can use Duhuo, Weilingxian, Xu Changqing and other drugs boiled into a paste, external application on the knee has the effect of dispelling wind and dispersing cold; for wind-dampness and heat caused by the evils, you can use Macrophyllum, Fenghui, Mulberry branches boiled into a paste, external application on the knee to dispel wind and clear the heat, through the paralysis and relieve pain.
Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of knee diseases more methods, so we recommend that patients in regular hospitals, under the guidance of the doctor’s diagnosis and treatment of medication, do not take their own medication, so as not to delay the condition.