When used as a traditional Chinese medicine, cactus has the effect of promoting qi and blood circulation, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, etc. Synovitis belongs to the category of “paralysis” in Chinese medicine, which is mostly caused by wind, cold, dampness, heat and other evils that paralyze the meridians and channels, so Qiangwu, gentiana and other traditional Chinese medicines can be combined according to the evidence. Clinical drug matching with the patient’s condition, physical and other factors, there is no so-called “with what is best”.
1. Cactus: the drug has the effect of promoting qi and blood circulation, clearing heat and detoxification, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing the lungs and stopping cough, clinically can be used for stomach pain, lumps, dysentery, sore throats, lung fever and cough, pulmonary hemoptysis, vomiting blood, hemorrhoidal blood and other medical conditions. In the use of the drug should be noted that the nature of the bitter cold, for the spleen and stomach cold patients are not recommended to use.
2. Qiangwu: This medicine has the efficacy of dispersing cold (removing cold from the surface of the muscle), dispelling wind and dampness, and relieving pain, and can be used in the treatment of wind-cold cold, headache, rheumatism and paralysis, shoulder and back pain, etc. When used, it should be noted that the medicine is bitter and cold in nature. In the use of should pay attention to blood deficiency paralysis pain is not recommended.
3. Gentiana Macrophyllae: The drug has the efficacy of dispelling wind-dampness, clearing dampness-heat, relieving paralytic pain, and reducing deficiency heat, and can be clinically used in the treatment of rheumatism-paralytic pain, stroke paraplegia (one side of the limbs can not be moved freely), tendon contracture (continuous muscle tension, stiffness), bone joints and pains, dampness-heat and jaundice and other medical conditions.
Patients who need to use cactus are advised to go to regular hospitals for consultation and treatment under the guidance of professional physicians for evidence-based treatment.