Paralysis is also known as “calendar joints” in Chinese medicine. It is a disease characterized by pain in the muscles, bones, and joints. Many patients ask, “Doctor, I have joint pain all the time, is it a rheumatic attack?” In fact, not all joint pains belong to rheumatism, and need to be analyzed according to the specific condition, otherwise it will cause the medicine stone to be disordered. The causes of paralysis Western medicine believes that the causes of arthritis are mainly related to inflammation, autoimmune reactions, infection, metabolic disorders, trauma, degenerative disease and other factors. However, according to Chinese medicine, paralysis is caused by the lack of vital energy, the couples are not dense, the external guard is not solid, and the external sensation of wind, cold, moisture and heat causes paralysis of muscles, bones, joints and meridians, and the blood and qi do not run smoothly. The common types of paralysis 1, line paralysis: limb joints, muscle pain, up and down the left and right joints wandering, but the upper extremities are more common, with cold pain, but also slight heat pain, or see the evil wind and cold, thin white tongue coating or thin greasy, pulse floating or floating tight. The treatment is to dispel wind and channels, dispel cold and remove dampness. The formula is Xuan Piao Da Jing Tang. 2, painful paralysis: pain in the joints of the limbs is more intense, and even the joints cannot be flexed or extended, the pain is worse when cold, and decreases with heat, the pain is more fixed and can also wander, the skin is not red, not hot when touched, the moss is thin and white, the pulse is tight. Treatment is to warm the meridians and disperse cold, dispel wind and remove dampness. The formula is Wu Tou Tang. 3.Palsy: painful and sore joints of the limbs, or swelling, pain with a fixed location, numbness of the skin, heavy hands and feet, inconvenient movement, white and greasy moss, moist and slow pulse. The treatment is to remove dampness, open the channels and dispel wind and cold. The formula is based on the addition and subtraction of Coix Seed Soup. 4.Heat paralysis: redness, swelling and burning pain in the joints of the limbs, with coldness, restraint of tendons and veins, lightness and heaviness at night, mostly accompanied by fever, thirst, boredom and restlessness, red tongue, yellow greasy moss or yellow dryness, slippery pulse. The treatment is to clear heat and circulation, dispel wind and remove dampness. The formula is Bai Hu plus Gui Zhi Tang. Prevention It is true that “sweat in and out of water is like water sadness”, as stated in “The Essentials of the Golden Horoscope”. Now also pay attention to “sweat in and out of the air conditioning”, “sweat that drink cold”, “sweat that infusion”, “sweat in the rain “, “tired of wading in water”, etc., are the causes of paralysis. And insufficient positive energy is the internal cause of feeling the evil of wind, cold, dampness and heat. Therefore, it is important to strengthen exercise to enhance resistance. At the same time, do a good job to keep warm, dress as far as possible not to show arms and legs, to avoid allowing the evil to take advantage of. In addition, the tendons and bones and joints are more susceptible to evil attacks after trauma, so treat trauma as thoroughly as possible, otherwise it is easy to leave the aftermath. For wind-cold damp paralysis plain can be used to warm the meridians of herbs boiling water soak feet, such as: mugwort, ginger, angelica, chicken blood vine, etc., soak feet in the liquid can be added to the amount of white wine to promote blood circulation to enhance the effectiveness of the medicine, but also available moxa smoked affected areas, moxibustion for this type of paralysis effect is also good. For rheumatism and heat paralysis, you can boil water for foot soak with Lonicera, Mulberry, Gentiana, etc. The modern common gout also belongs to the category of heat paralysis in Chinese medicine, when avoiding seafood, old fire soup, mushrooms, wine, etc.