Chinese medicine treatment for lumbar disc herniation

Chinese medicine treatment for lumbar disc herniation includes internal and external application of traditional Chinese medicine, orthopedic massage and moxibustion. 1. Traditional Chinese medicine: Through diagnosis and treatment, traditional Chinese medicine is generally used to tonify the kidney and strengthen the tendons, invigorate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and clear away heat and dampness. Clinical treatment can be carried out with formulas such as Duhu parasitic soup, which emphasizes on benefiting qi, activating blood circulation and opening the meridians and collaterals, and has a good therapeutic effect on the symptoms of lumbar disc herniation. 2. External application of traditional Chinese medicine: With the continuous improvement and updating of fumigation treatment instruments, the external application of traditional Chinese medicine shows more advantages, if the patient is more cold, it is equipped with fennel and ginger, if the blood stasis is heavy, it should be added with red peony and danshen, if there is stagnation of qi, then it should be equipped with green peels and hedgehogsbane, which can play a very good therapeutic effect through the reasonable combination. 3. Tui na therapy: Tui na therapy for neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain has definite curative effect. In the case of lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, the correct use of massage can effectively reduce the symptoms of the patient, and while promoting the circulation of qi and blood through the patient’s meridians, it can to a certain extent make the patient’s body function get improved. 4. Moxibustion therapy: moxibustion has the effect of moving qi and relieving pain (by regulating the body’s qi to relieve pain), dispersing cold and removing dampness, warming the meridians and collaterals, etc. The use of moxibustion therapy in lumbar disc herniation therapy highlights the characteristics of not being affected by the environment, easy care, no adverse reactions, mild pain, easy to operate and the size of the fire can be determined by the doctor according to the patient’s actual situation. Chinese medicine treatment of lumbar intervertebral disc herniation needs to be based on the patient’s individual physique and condition of the diagnosis and treatment, not to blindly administer treatment on their own.