Lower limb arteriosclerosis occlusive disease in Chinese medicine belongs to the category of “gangrene (at first cold and numbness of the limbs, then necrosis of the toe joints, black rot and ulceration, long time no healing)”, the Chinese medicine for lower limb arteriosclerosis occlusive disease usually has detoxification and Jisheng Tang, Yanghe Tang, Gubu Tang and so on.
According to Chinese medicine practitioners, arteriosclerosis occlusive disease of lower limb is mostly caused by over-eating of thick flavors, which results in the accumulation of fire and poison in the internal organs, coupled with the deficiency of kidney yin, which is unable to control the fire; or due to the external cold, damp and poisonous evils, the camp and the guards are not in tune, and the qi and blood stagnation is formed. The treatment should nourish the kidney and blood, strengthen the spleen and qi, and promote blood circulation and detoxification.
1. Detoxification and Jisheng Tang is composed of Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Rhizoma Cypress, Rhizoma Zhi Mu, and Rhizoma Smallpox Powder. It is mostly used in treating the first appearance of gangrene, malignant cold (fear of cold) and fever, body tiredness and thirst, or swelling or purple, or numbness or pain, and trance and restlessness.
2. Yanghe Tang, composed of ripened rhubarb, ephedra and antler gelatin, has the efficacy of warming yang and tonifying blood (warming yang qi and replenishing blood), dispersing cold and clearing stagnation. It is mainly used for treating yin gangrene (a general term for a class of yin sores and ulcers with slow condition), such as paste bone gangrene, dehiscence gangrene, and rheumatism (multiple abscesses originating from the deep part of the muscle), etc., with diffuse swelling and headlessness of the affected area, pale tongue with white moss, and dull or late and fine pulse.
This formula should not be used if the sores are red, swollen, hot and painful, or if there is heat in yin deficiency, or if the gangrene has been broken.
3. Gu Bu Tang, composed of astragalus, dendrobium, angelica, hyssop, and zhi hua di ding, etc., is used to treat the first signs of gangrene.
Lower limb arteriosclerosis occlusive disease is recommended to go to the hospital to do examination, clarify the cause of the disease, and follow the doctor’s prescription of medication and treatment.