Analgesia is one of the common treatments for pain. There are many kinds of pain relievers in Chinese medicine, such as Fangfeng, Qianghao, Chonglou, Fructus Psoralea, Radix Paeoniae Alba, and so on, which are commonly used.
According to Chinese medicine, “if you don’t pass, you get pain” and “if you don’t get honor, you get pain”, meaning that the occurrence of pain is often closely related to deficiency and stasis, and the common causes of pain are wind-cold, wind-heat, wind-dampness, etc., and stagnation of qi and blood, resulting in the poor functioning of the meridians and veins or the inability to nourish the meridians and tissues due to the weakness of qi and blood.
According to the nature of different diseases and evils, treatment methods such as dispelling wind and dispersing cold, clearing heat and removing dampness, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, promoting qi and relieving pain (relieving pain by regulating the body’s qi), and tonifying qi and blood are adopted respectively.
Fangfeng has the effect of dispelling wind and relieving epidemics, winning dampness and relieving pain (removing pain caused by excessive dampness), and stopping spasm; Qiangwu has the effect of dispelling wind and dispersing cold (removing cold from the surface of the muscle), dispelling wind and removing dampness, and relieving pain.
Chonglou has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, subduing swellings and relieving pain, cooling the liver and calming fright; sepiola has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, subduing carbuncle and draining pus, and eliminating stasis and relieving pain; and radix Paeonia lactiflora is used for clearing heat and cooling the Blood, and dispersing stasis and relieving pain.
Attention, pain is the external manifestation of the disease, should be systematic diagnosis, identify the cause of the disease and standardize the diagnosis and treatment, do not see the pain to stop the pain, so as not to cover up the symptoms and delay the treatment. The drug should be used under the guidance of a physician, do not take on your own.