Headache may not use tianma

  When it comes to the treatment of headache and dizziness, there are many folk remedies, the most popular than the “asparagus fish head stew”. Tianma, sweet and flat in nature, has the function of calming the liver and calming the wind, and is often used for headaches and dizziness, numbness of the limbs and other diseases. The common people often put it into chicken soup or meat soup stewed, many people will be a tonic, a headache on the use. However, experts point out that the evidence of headache is quite complex, and Tianma only has a significant effect on headaches and dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver Yang. If you do not distinguish between physical deficiency, blood and Qi, symptoms and pathology to “delusional use” of asparagus, not only may not cure the headache, but also lead to a variety of adverse reactions.  Headache is not a medicine of asparagus to cure headache is a common clinical symptoms, can appear alone, but also in the course of a variety of diseases. According to the Nei Jing, headache can be caused by lesions in all six meridians. Zhang Zhongjing of the Han Dynasty discussed the symptoms seen in the Treatise on Typhoid Fever for headache in Sun, Yangming, Shaoyang, and Jueyin diseases, and listed different remedies for headache, such as for Jueyin headache, “dry vomiting, spitting saliva, and headache, Wu Zhuyu Tang is the main remedy.” Li Dongyuan’s “Ten Books of Dongyuan” has typhoid headache, damp-heat headache, migraine, true headache, qi deficiency headache, blood deficiency headache, both qi and blood deficiency headache, and syncope headache according to the symptoms and pathogenesis, and adds Taiyin headache and Shaoyin headache. Danxi Xinfa? Headache” there are also records of phlegm syncope headache and gas stagnation headache, and proposed that “if the headache does not heal each added to lead the meridian medicine, sun Chuanxiong, Yangming Zhi, Shaoyang Chaihu, Taiyin Cangzhu, Shaoyin Hesperidin, Zheyin Wu Zhuyu”, it can be seen that the headache is not a medicine of Tianma can be a cure, the doctor should dialectical evidence and then the symptomatic medicine.  Tianma abuse may lead to side effects on the side effects and contraindications to the use of asparagus, the ancients also have long recognized. The “Compendium of Materia Medica” cloud: “long taking asparagus, the body issued red dan.” The “Ben Jing Feng Yuan” also cloud: “Although Tian Ma is not dry, after all, the wind agent, if the blood deficiency without wind, fire headache, dry mouth and constipation, should not be used.” Wu Yiluo, a famous doctor in the Qing dynasty, said bluntly: “blood failure and non-genuine stroke is contraindicated. Modern pharmacological experiments prove that: asparagus has certain toxic side effects, asparagus poisoning dose is more than 40 grams, the latency period of poisoning is 1 to 6 hours.  Do not distinguish between physical deficiency, blood and vitality, symptoms of disease to delusional use of asparagus, not only may not cure the headache, but also lead to dizziness, nausea, chest tightness, skin pimples with itching and a series of side effects, individuals will also appear facial or body swelling or even hair loss phenomenon. Not only the use of asparagus alone will occur such reactions, some people take a soup containing asparagus, such as heliotrope atractylodes asparagus soup, Chinese medicines such as asparagus pills, asparagus honeysuckle sugar-coated tablets, the same will appear on the symptoms of asparagus allergy. “According to the theory of Chinese medicine, asparagus is not a tonic, still need to identify the evidence to take, not to abuse.”