What does it mean to treat the blood before the wind?

Originally, the phrase “treating blood before treating wind” referred to the principle that when treating paralysis (pain in the waist, knees and joints caused by paralysis of the meridians and channels by wind and other evils, and poor circulation of qi and blood) with a prevalence of wind, the principle of treating blood by nourishing blood was needed first. Now, it has been extended to mean that the treatment of wind can be based on the treatment of yin and blood, using methods such as nourishing blood and nourishing yin. The next sentence of “treating wind first by treating blood” reads “wind will be extinguished when blood flows (the normal functioning of blood can alleviate the wind evil in the human body)”, which was originally an idea for the treatment of paralysis, and the formula of tonifying blood was used in the treatment of paralysis, and it was believed that nourishing and tonifying the blood played an important role in the treatment of paralysis due to the partial prevalence of wind. It was believed that nourishing blood and tonifying blood played an important role in treating paralysis due to wind-evil bias. Later on, it was developed that blood-heat, blood-cold, blood stasis, yin deficiency, and fluid deficiency could all cause wind syndrome. Therefore, some drugs such as cooling blood, activating blood, nourishing yin and nourishing blood (nourishing blood in the body), and increasing yin fluid are often added to formulas for treating wind syndrome, so as to promote yin, blood, and fluid to be nourished, so that the wind syndrome can be relieved with the normal functioning of qi, blood, and fluid. Commonly used remedies include Angelica sinensis, Chuanxiong rhizoma, Da Dingfeng Zhu, and Antelope and Hook Teng Tang. Adverse effects are not clear. Patients who are not adapted to the treatment should go to the hospital and standardize the use of medication under the guidance of the doctor to avoid delaying the condition.