How to treat coma in Chinese medicine

Coma is not awake, should first take rescue measures, Chinese medicine to explore the condition of the real after the identification of evidence-based treatment, can use acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine and other therapies to promote the patient to wake up, the specific therapies and medication, please follow the doctor’s instructions. 1. Rescue measures: keep the patient lying down, breathe freely, elevate the patient’s jaw, keep the surrounding air circulation. Unbutton clothing, such as belt, collar buckle, etc., to remove secretions or foreign objects in the mouth and throat. Acupuncture on acupoints such as Yongquan, Renzhong, and Ashansanli or hand pressure on Renzhong to promote awakening. In case of respiratory pause, artificial respiration and chest compressions should be performed immediately. 2. Acupuncture and moxibustion treatment: Renzhong, Shixuan, Yongquan, Daxi, Neiguan and other acupuncture points can be needled, which has more obvious curative effect on the coma of the type of heat and evil real evidence. For qi and blood deficiency and failure type of coma, you can use warm acupuncture to stimulate Guanyuan, Qihai, Zhongkou and other points, which can help to restore consciousness. 3. Chinese medicine treatment: Chinese medicine believes that coma can be divided into deficiency and reality. If coma is caused by heat, phlegm, dampness, blood stasis, epidemics and other factors blocking the orifices, medicines that clear heat and remove blood stasis, open the orifices and wake up the mind can be used, such as Angong Niuhuang Pill and Zixue Dan. When facing patients with deficiency of qi and blood, they can be treated with drugs that tonify qi and nourish blood, and restore yang to save the body (by warming and tonifying yang to save the body from fainting and unconsciousness, etc.), such as Si-Reverse-Tang and Duo-Shen-Tang. In the face of the patient’s tightly closed teeth, traditional Chinese medicine can not be taken internally, you can also use traditional Chinese medicine to retain the enema method. Warm tips: in case of emergency, try to move the patient as little as possible, wait for 120 rescue, or immediately sent to a neighboring hospital for treatment, and follow the doctor’s instructions for medication.