Wood becomes rotten, people are old and brittle bones, now when you mention osteoporosis, the first response is a lack of calcium calcium. Osteoporosis, calcium supplementation is enough? In addition to calcium, is there any other good method? Before the question and answer, let’s first meet “osteoporosis” this big friend.
As we can see above, osteoporosis is characterized by a decrease in bone mass, a decrease in bone strength due to damage to the microstructure of bone tissue, and an increase in bone fragility, resulting in a higher risk of fracture.
Clinical manifestations are often as follows
1. pain: low back pain or circumferential skeletal pain.
2. spinal deformity: severe osteoporosis may be associated with height shortening and hunchback, spinal deformity and restricted extension.
3. fracture: fragility fracture is a low-energy or non-violent fracture, such as a fracture from a fall from standing height or less than standing height or from other daily activities is a fragility fracture.
The principles of treatment for osteoporosis are to relieve bone pain, increase bone mass, and reduce fractures. When it comes to osteoporosis, calcium supplementation is well known. The daily calcium requirement for normal adults is 1 to 1.5g, and the calcium intake of Chinese people is 400mg/day. Elderly people have poor intestinal absorption of calcium and their dietary intake is often insufficient. Therefore, extra-dietary calcium supplementation for the elderly is a way to prevent and treat bone loss. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that calcium is a dietary supplement for osteoporosis, but is calcium supplementation alone enough?
From the above diagram, we can understand the formation process of osteoporosis. Calcium and vitamin D are the basic measures to prevent osteoporosis and cannot be used as osteoporosis treatment drugs alone, but only as a basic adjunct. In case of osteoporosis, a combination with absorption inhibitors or bone formation promoters needs to be considered. Drug therapy can be divided into three categories according to their effects on bone metabolism.
1. basic supplements – calcium, vitamin D.
2. anti-resorptive drugs – estrogen and progesterone, calcitonin, bisphosphonates.
3, pro-bone formation drugs – fluoride, anabolic steroids, parathyroid hormone.
According to Chinese medicine, primary osteoporosis is a chronic systemic disease that involves multiple internal organs and is caused by multiple factors over a long period of time. Based on the theory of “kidney stores essence” and “kidney is the master of bone”, deficiency of kidney essence is the cause of this disease, and is closely related to the function of liver, spleen and other internal organs in Chinese medicine, and there are deficiencies and realities in the nature of the disease, but it always comes down to deficiency of essence and reduction of marrow and loss of bone nourishment. Various causes such as deficiency of kidney essence, deficiency of kidney yang, deficiency of liver and kidney yin, weakness of spleen and stomach, deficiency of spleen and kidney yang, kidney deficiency and blood stasis, and blood stasis and qi stagnation can lead to the occurrence and development of the disease. In addition to the treatment of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine believes that food also has similar properties to Chinese medicine, such as the four gases and five tastes, the normalization and efficacy, which can nourish and cure the disease.
The following are some recommended recipes for food therapy.
Huai Qi turtle soup
Indications: soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, five heartburn, dizziness, tinnitus, dry mouth and tongue, etc.
Recipe: Chinese yam, Chinese wolfberry, bone marrow, snapper.
Effects: Nourishing Yin, tonifying the kidney, benefiting Qi and strengthening the spleen
Interpretation: yam can strengthen the kidneys and essence, treat all deficiencies, treat five strains and seven injuries, can stop lumbago, kidney yin; Chinese wolfberry can nourish the kidneys, nourish the kidneys and essence, water is strong bones, treatment of lumbago and knee pain has good effect; bone crushed tonic, effective as its name, nourish the kidneys and strengthen the bones, continue to hurt and relieve pain, for kidney deficiency lumbago, fall and flash, tendons and bones fracture; turtle scientific name turtle, according to the “Compendium of Materia Medica”, turtle meat has nourishing yin, nourishing the kidneys and other effects, can treat lumbago and leg pain The meat of the turtle has a variety of effects, such as nourishing the yin and kidney, and can cure lumbar pain. A bowl of snapper soup with Chinese wolfberry can nourish the yin and kidney, benefit the qi and strengthen the spleen.
Raw earth and yellow chicken soup
Indications: Soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, sometimes with hidden pain, pain in the heel, like pressing and rubbing, more so when exerted, relieved at rest, fatigue, tinnitus, dizziness, tooth shaking, etc.
Recipe: Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Oregano Chicken, caramelized sugar.
Effects: Tonifying the kidney and filling the essence, producing marrow and strengthening bones.
Explanation: This formula can strengthen the stomach, benefit the essence and stop night sweating. This formula is suitable for back pain, inability to stand for a long time, weakness and less energy, heavy body and night sweating, and less food due to deficiency of kidney essence.
Sheep backbone congee
Indications: Soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, fatigue, cold pain in the abdomen, cold and cold extremities.
Recipe: Sheep’s backbone, Cistanche, Semen cuscutae.
Effects: Warming the kidney and strengthening the yang, filling the essence and replenishing the marrow.
Explanation: Sheep backbone can tonify the kidney and strengthen the bones by replenishing the shape. Cistanches can nourish the kidney and Yang, benefit the essence and blood, and treat back pain and weakness of the feet. Cuscuta is a good medicine for the kidney, liver and spleen.
In addition, fitness methods such as the Five Animal Play, simplified twenty-four taijiquan, eight duanjin can achieve the preventive effect of exercise, 2-3 times a week, 30-45 minutes each time.