Recently, the number of patients with colds has significantly increased. More and more people around are experiencing symptoms such as sore throat, fever, diarrhea, runny nose, and fatigue after catching a cold, but some also have a sore throat and high fever that lasts for two to three days.
In response, TCM treatment demonstrates the advantages of preventing disease before it occurs, preventing changes once disease has occurred, and promoting recovery after illness.
From a TCM perspective, this still falls under the category of “epidemic diseases,” and the patterns of disease occurrence and development have not changed. The characteristics of TCM treatment lie in its ability to grasp these developmental patterns. From the TCM viewpoint, it is classified as a wind-heat cold, exhibiting characteristics of wind-heat cold.
As the weather gradually becomes warmer, diseases caused by wind-heat will increase. Patients with cold may exhibit symptoms of wind-heat cold, such as sore throat, mild cough, and low fever. Using TCM medications for wind-heat cold is very effective, such as those that clear heat, disperse wind, and relieve throat discomfort. For those with low fever, using these medications will gradually alleviate all symptoms.
If symptoms such as fever, slight aversion to wind and cold, dry throat, sore throat, red tongue tip, thin white or thin yellow coating, and floating rapid or soft rapid pulse appear, a combination of herbs such as Jin Yin Hua (Honeysuckle), Huang Qi (Astragalus), and Bai Mao Gen (Imperata) can be used, which have the effects of tonifying qi, clearing heat, and resolving dampness and toxicity, serving as preventive medication for those in close contact with influenza patients.
If symptoms such as aversion to wind and cold, fever, body heat without relief, no sweating or sweating that is not smooth, cough with little white sticky phlegm, and a heavy feeling in the head and body. The tongue coating is white and greasy, and the pulse is floating or soft. A combination of herbs such as Jing Jie (Schizonepeta), Jin Yin Hua (Honeysuckle), and Chai Hu (Bupleurum) can be used, which have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, and resolving exterior and transforming dampness, used for influenza and damp-heat attacking the lungs.
If symptoms such as cough, little phlegm, severe sore throat, hoarseness, nasal congestion, and yellow nasal discharge, red tongue body, yellow coating, and rapid pulse appear. A combination of herbs such as Sang Ye (Mulberry Leaf), Ju Hua (Chrysanthemum), and Chao Ku Xing Ren (Fried Bitter Apricot Seed) can be used, which have the effects of dispersing wind, clearing heat, and stopping cough while transforming phlegm.
TCM External Treatment Methods:
This method does not use medications, thus avoiding drug resistance caused by viral mutations. It mobilizes the body’s self-healing ability, making the virus lose the soil it relies on for survival, and resolves issues through methods of dissolving, unblocking, and promoting natural flow.
The Li’s Bian Method with Tiger Talisman Copper Bian Gua Sha in treating viral pneumonia follows this overall approach:
1. The Li’s Bian Method does not use medications for treatment. By changing the internal environment of the body, the virus cannot use the body as a parasitic host; the virus will inevitably leave the body. There is no need to consider viral mutations; one key opens a thousand locks.
2. The Li’s Bian Method can mobilize qi and blood to detoxify rapidly, following Zhang Zhongjing’s three methods of treating diseases: inducing sweating, purging, and using them freely. The four wells of the Li’s Bian Method detoxify quickly, purifying the blood and alleviating the condition, buying time for the treatment of severe patients.
3. “To treat is to unblock, to purge is to unblock, to supplement is to unblock, to strengthen is to unblock.” All diseases are related to the blockage of meridians, nerves, blood vessels, and lymphatic systems. Of course, each blockage has its reasons. Gua Sha expels evil from the surface, based on unblocking, resolving, and promoting natural flow, detoxifying and supporting yang, allowing the rise and fall of qi and blood to return to normal, thus restoring the body’s self-healing ability.
4. Overall regulation, the five zang and six fu organs mutually generate and restrain each other. For example, to regulate the lungs, TCM believes that “all five zang and six fu can cause coughing, not just the lungs,” so “treating the five zang is treating the lungs.” Gua Sha can combine points, lines, and surfaces to allow the five zang and six fu to balance themselves.
5. Scraping the thymus leads to a rapid increase in T cells’ lymphocytes, with CD3, CD4, and CD8 increasing in value after one hour, enhancing the body’s immune function.
TCM carries the experience and theoretical knowledge of ancient Chinese people in fighting diseases, developed under the guidance of primitive materialism and spontaneous dialectical thought, forming a medical theoretical system through long-term medical practice.
Introduction to the Department of Preventive Medicine
The Department of Preventive Medicine is a specialty that integrates TCM comprehensive conditioning and treatment, centered on the concept of “preventing disease before it occurs.” Through TCM health examinations, TCM conditioning, and TCM interventions, using herbal medicine, Gua Sha, Tui Na (Chinese therapeutic massage), acupuncture, moxibustion, and plastering, it provides a complete, systematic, and personalized TCM health management service for healthy, sub-healthy, at-risk disease populations, and chronic disease patients, aiming to achieve the goals of “preventing disease before it occurs, preventing changes once disease has occurred, and preventing recurrence after recovery.” This enhances the body’s resistance to disease, allowing the body to become less sick or not sick at all, and even if illness occurs, it can recover quickly with fewer relapses.
The department is located on the second floor of the outpatient building of Longjiang County TCM Hospital, with a business area of 170 square meters, divided into areas for health status information collection and management, health status identification and risk assessment, health consultation and guidance, health intervention, and health education.
Director Introduction
Wang Yueting, Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Longjiang County TCM Hospital, Master’s degree, Associate Chief Physician. Currently a member of the Heilongjiang Province Chronic Disease Management Society, member of the Heilongjiang Province Longjiang Medical School Research Association, member of the Heilongjiang Province TCM and Western Medicine Combined Preventive Medicine Branch, and a committee member of the Academic Thought Research Professional Committee of Famous Old TCM Practitioners. Participated in one municipal-level research project and published six papers in national and provincial core journals.
Specializes in applying TCM theory to guide syndrome differentiation and treatment of common internal medicine diseases, reasonably applying herbal medicine and suitable TCM techniques based on the patient’s condition to treat common and frequently occurring internal medicine diseases, such as fatigue, cough, constipation, headache, insomnia, vivid dreams, palpitations, gout, low back pain, flank pain, rheumatic pain, tumors, menopausal syndrome, and TCM conditioning for sub-healthy states.
Expert Consultation Appointment Phone: 15304529727
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Longjiang County, Geological Street, Qingping North Road
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