Application of traditional Chinese medicine in clinic and study
According to clinic observations in China and United States, traditional Chinese medicine [TCM] is effective in treating hypertension, menopause, bronchial asthma and urinary tract infection. It does not only relieve signs and symptoms, but also reduce frequent use of harmful medication, such as cortisone and antibiotics. Today TCM is also applied on treating newly diagnosed disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Although these disorders are never existed in TCM, treatments for these conditions are not impossible. In fact, it has been shown that TCM helped to reduce the disease progress of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.
Sings and symptoms of Parkinson’s disease [PD] are resting-tremors, delayed-movement, postural instability, limb-rigidity, facial-masking, speech-difficulty and difficult swallowing. Other signs and symptoms include flexed-posture, lack of postural reflexes, depression, disturbing-sleep, dizziness and sexual dysfunction. According to these manifestations, PD is attributed to either liver-repletion or kidney-vacuity in TCM. Practitioners find that using kidney-tonifying and liver-reducing method slows the disease progress of PD.
Signs and symptoms of Alzheimer are forgetfulness, such as asking a same question over and over again, repeating same story or words again and again, forgetting how to do regular activities (cooking, playing card, balancing check, et al), getting lost in familiar areas, neglecting bath and wearing same clothe. Other signs and symptoms are, loses spark or zest for life - does not start anything, has shorter attention span and less motivation to stay with an activity, won't make decisions, naps frequently or awakens at night believing it is time to go to work, loses control of bowel and bladder, loses weight and skin becomes thin and tears easily, become unsteady or weak to stand alone, may have seizures, frequent infections, falls and sleeps more. These manifestations indicate patients are kidney-vacuity or qi-and-blood-vacuity. Main complaints of menopause are usually hot flash, night sweating, fatigue, osteoporosis, irritability and insomnia at age 50s. According to the nature and the manifestations of menopause, there are two types of menopause in general, kidney-yang-deficiency and kidney-yin-deficiency. Treatment with TCM, such as acupuncture, moxibustion and herb replaces hormone therapy and had fewer side effects.
Main complaint of bronchitis is cough, and that of asthma is wheezing. These two disorders are treated as either repletion pattern or vacuity pattern. Usually repletion pattern is associated with acute bronchitis or acute asthma attack, and vacuity pattern is referred frequently as chronic. Use of TCM
