Numbness of limbs after cerebral infarction can be attributed to the category of stroke disease in Chinese medicine. Under the guidance of Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment, it can be treated with Tianma Hookteng Drink, Tonifying Yang and Returning the Five Soups and other prescriptions.
1. Tianma Hookteng Drink: Patients with cerebral infarction may have symptoms of hyperactivity of liver yang (excessive liver yang, causing dizziness, dizziness, headache, etc.), headache, dizziness and numbness of limbs, etc., and can take Tianma Hookteng Drink according to the doctor’s instruction, whose main ingredients include Tianma, Hookteng, Shihjiaming and Sangmangsheng, which have the efficacy of calming liver and submerging yang (suppressing too much yang rising in the liver).
The adverse effects and contraindications of this formula are not clear, and it is contraindicated for allergic individuals and those who are hypersensitive to this formula.
2. Tonifying Yang and Returning Five Soup: Tonifying Yang and Returning Five Soup is composed of Astragalus, Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, etc. It has the effects of tonifying qi, invigorating blood, and clearing collaterals. It is mainly used for treating stroke with Qi deficiency and blood stasis. Symptoms include hemiplegia (inability to move one side of the limb), slanting of the mouth and eyes, unfavorable speech, salivation (drooling) at the corners of the mouth, frequent urination or incontinence.
It is commonly used in the treatment of sequelae of cerebrovascular accident, coronary heart disease, sequelae of polio, and other causes of hemiplegia, paraplegia, or unilateral upper limb, or lower limb impotence, etc. belonging to qi deficiency and blood stasis (qi’s inability to promote the blood leads to poor circulation of the blood, or even stagnation of the pathological condition).
Cerebral infarction patients with numbness of the limbs, you can identify the evidence to choose the appropriate Chinese medicine prescription to regulate, need to use drugs under the guidance of a doctor, do not self-medication.