Why do you have a headache for ten years?

Now I have a rough idea of why the patient's headache cannot be cured for a long time. Modern medicine and headache is a symptom. "normally, when you go to the hospital, the doctor will let you do the relevant examination first." That headache has become a thorny problem in Western medicine. "in other words, Western medicine needs to first find out the cause of the disease." the more typical examples are the most common clinical palpitations, palpitations, chest tightness, and suffocation. "but the patient's discomfort always exists, if trauma, brain lesions and other possibilities of disease are excluded. When a patient cannot be classified as any known disease in modern medicine, "Western medicine can only prescribe painkillers to relieve symptoms." Traditional Chinese medicine and headache TCM treatment of headache is not the first to classify the patient into which disease. What we usually call yin deficiency and yang deficiency actually refers to different states of imbalance between yin and yang, and irregular menstruation will also show headaches, so headache is an external manifestation of patients.

Record of traditional Chinese Medicine outpatient Service

"Dr. Zhu, my daughter has had a headache for almost 10 years. I just can't find the cause when I check everywhere. Now the attacks are becoming more and more frequent, and the degree is getting more and more serious. In the past, I didn't have to take painkillers, but now I have to take medicine when I have an attack. Do you think this can be cured? We all have no confidence. " The mother of the patient brought her daughter to see a doctor.

"head pain, back headache, or forehead pain?" I asked.

"it's a migraine." The patient said.

"left or right?" I asked.

". Doctor Zhu, is there a difference between left and right? " Asked the patient's mother.

"it's all right. Just answer me." I said.

"it's the back of the head on the right." The patient said.

Are you afraid of the cold? Are you afraid of the wind? " I asked.

"afraid of the cold, especially afraid of the wind, and recently had a herpes zoster." The patient said.

"is your period on time?" I asked.

"No, it's delayed by about five days every time." The patient said.

"have you ever seen traditional Chinese medicine before?" I asked.

"Yes, this is the old prescription, and it's useless to take it." The patient said.

About five minutes later I took a look at all the questions I should ask.

"OK, I see!" Now I have a rough idea of why the patient's headache cannot be cured for a long time.

Modern medicine and headache

Headache is a symptom, usually when you go to the hospital, the doctor will ask you to do a related examination, such as head CT or MRI. But the trouble is that if there is no problem at the physical level, the headache will become a thorny problem in western medicine. Because Western medicine is experimental medicine, its essence is to use reductionism to explain the diseases of the human body, in other words, Western medicine needs to find the cause of the disease first. For example, pneumonia is caused by lung infection caused by bacteria, so pneumonia can be cured by killing bacteria with antibiotics. But in reality, we doctors have encountered an unavoidable problem, there are many diseases can not find the cause, or can not use objective indicators to explain the disease. A more typical example is the most common clinical palpitations, palpitations, chest tightness, and suffocation. Patients can do all the examination items in the hospital, but the results will be all normal, but the discomfort of the patients will always exist. The same goes for headaches. Western medicine can only prescribe painkillers to relieve symptoms when patients cannot be classified as any known disease in modern medicine after excluding the possibility of trauma, brain lesions and other diseases.

This is the "stop-gap treatment" in which we Chinese medicine often despise Western medicine, but are we doing better than Western medicine today? I don't think so.

Traditional Chinese Medicine and headache

The treatment of headache in traditional Chinese medicine is not to classify the patient into which disease, but to judge what kind of Yin-Yang imbalance the patient is in. The Yin deficiency and Yang deficiency usually refers to the different imbalance between Yin and Yang. And different states can cause headaches, in other words, yin deficiency can cause headache, yang deficiency can also cause headache, blood deficiency can cause headache, blood deficiency can also cause qi deficiency, blood stasis can also be caused, qi stagnation can also be caused, cold and summer dampness can also be induced, irregular menstruation can also show headaches, so headache is an external manifestation of the patient, not the disease itself.

This little girl has had a headache for many years, and she has also seen traditional Chinese medicine. I have reviewed the prescriptions given to her by traditional Chinese medicine in the past, which are generally treatments for dispelling wind and relieving pain, most of which are the same. In general, I would like to see the prescriptions of previous doctors for difficult and persistent diseases, because the old path taken by my peers will no longer have to waste time to go one way again, and this road will be re-examined.

This patient is lack of vital energy and is under great pressure at work, but he often loses weight and likes to drink cold drinks and raw cold fruit, causing damage to the whole body yang, which is often referred to as yang deficiency. Yang deficiency is bound to be Yin Sheng, so the little girl's menstruation is delayed, afraid of cold, afraid of the wind. Yang Sheng is hot, Yin Sheng is cold, the patient is cold due to Yang deficiency, cold master pain, so the performance of headache. In the past, doctors used drugs to dispel wind and relieve pain to aggravate the damage to human yang, so the patient's yang is more empty, and the cold is more prosperous, and the headache is more painful, so it cannot be cured for a long time.

I told the patient not to eat cold drinks and fruits, to avoid coarse grains, to resume eating rice and pasta, not to lose weight, and then prescribed prescriptions for warming yang and replenishing qi.

Two weeks later, the headache was significantly relieved. One month later, the patient reported that the headache disappeared, no longer occurred, and has not relapsed so far.

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The westernization of traditional Chinese medicine is becoming more and more serious. it happens from time to time to see the diagnosis prescription and the examination report to prescribe the prescription. In my grandfather's time, this patient should not have been delayed for several years, because most traditional Chinese medicine at that time understood the thinking of traditional Chinese medicine and knew how to cure diseases and seek root causes.

I hope that Chinese medicine can return to its origin earlier, instead of being brought further and further away by modern medicine. I have always thought that the problems that can be solved by western medicine should be solved by western medicine, and we Chinese medicine should be able to take up the problems that cannot be solved by western medicine. It is because there is no distinction between traditional Chinese and western medicine and patients' suffering. Isn't it the doctor's original intention to use all the methods and means at his disposal to solve the patient's suffering?

It was only after I became the director of the five Oncology departments that I found that most of my highly educated doctors were very weak in traditional Chinese medicine. In the past, I did not like to write medical records, and I was suspected of blowing my own trumpet, but now the situation is that if I do not come forward and talk about it, some young doctors will soon regard Chinese medicine as a superstition and think that only Western medicine can cure diseases. So today I have a feeling to write an article for peer reference, welcome criticism and correction!

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