Chinese medicine is effective in treating lumbar disc herniation, and it can be treated by identifying the evidence and medication. The evidence of lumbar disc herniation is divided into the evidence of qi stagnation and blood stasis, wind-cold paralysis and obstruction, damp-heat paralysis and obstruction, and the evidence of liver and kidney deficiencies.
1. Qi stagnation and blood stasis syndrome: the patient’s lumbar and leg pain is like pins and needles, aggravated at night, the pain site is fixed, the tongue is dark, the moss is thin and yellow, the pulse is stringy and astringent.
2. Wind-cold paralytic obstruction: patients with cold pain in the waist and legs, aggravated by cold or cold weather, relieved by heat, with pale tongue, white moss, and slow pulse, treating with tonifying the liver and kidney, dispelling wind and dispersing cold and relieving pain, and adding and subtracting with DuoYuShengShengTang.
3. Damp-heat paralytic obstruction syndrome: patients with lumbar pain, limb fever, irritability, relieved by cold, red tongue with yellowish greasy coating, slippery pulse, the treatment is to clear away heat and promote dampness to relieve pain, and the treatment is to add subtractions with Four-Miao-San.
4. Liver and kidney deficiency and deficiency syndrome: back and leg pains are vague and of long duration; those with yang deficiency also suffer from coldness (fear of cold), coldness and coldness of limbs; those with yin deficiency also suffer from flushing of cheekbones and night sweating (abnormal sweating after falling asleep, but sweating stops after waking up), and other manifestations. For Yang deficiency, adding or subtracting Right Angelica Pill is recommended to warm the liver and kidney, while for Yin deficiency, adding or subtracting Left Angelica Pill is recommended to nourish the liver and kidney.
If you have symptoms of lumbar disc herniation, you should go to the hospital in time, and be treated with medication by a professional Chinese medicine practitioner after diagnosis.