Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment of knee paralysis

Chinese medicine diagnosis and typing of knee paralysis include wind-cold-dampness paralysis (wind, cold and dampness three kinds of evil qi invade the body and cause limb paralysis), wind-dampness-heat paralysis (often manifested as burning, pain, redness and swelling of joint muscles), phlegm and stasis paralysis, and deficiency of liver and kidney. Treatment can be done with Coix Seed Soup, Baihu Guizhi Soup, Shuanghe Soup, etc. 1. Wind-cold-dampness paralysis: If there is wandering pain in the knee joint, it is difficult to flex and extend, and at the beginning of the disease, there are symptoms such as bad cold (fear of cold) and fever. Job’s tears soup can be used. The ingredients are Coix Seed, Juniper Berry, Mudan Pi and Peach Kernel. 2. Rheumatism-heat paralysis: If there is localized redness, swelling, pain and burning heat in the joints, thirst, irritability, constipation, etc., Bai Hu Jia Gui Zhi Tang can be used to clear heat and clear the channels. It is composed of gypsum, cinnamon stick, Zhimu, round-grained rice and licorice. 3. Paralysis with phlegm and stasis: if the joints are swollen and painful, or even stiff and deformed, the skin is dull, and the tongue is purplish with petechiae, etc., Shuanghe Tang can be used to dispel stasis and resolve phlegm. It is composed of angelica, chuanxiong, poria, peach kernel, safflower, and Radix et rhizoma. 4. Deficiency of the liver and kidney: joint pain, swelling, lumbar and knee weakness, impotence, spermatorrhea, bone vapor, insomnia, and pulse tachycardia (narrowing, thinning and accelerating of the pulse rate). Tonify the liver and kidneys with Duhuo Fenghuang Tang. It is composed of Fangfeng, Duhu, Sangsheng, Xinxin, Cow’s Knee, Angelica Sinensis and Paeoniae Alba. Please use the medicine under the guidance of a physician.