How to treat neck and shoulder pain in traditional Chinese medicine?

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Traditional Chinese medicine believes that neck and shoulder pain is caused by blood stasis in neck and shoulder. Scraping therapy can relax tendons and collaterals, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, promote local metabolism, relax stiff muscles and adjust sub-health state. So today, let's talk about how traditional Chinese medicine treats neck and shoulder pain? I'd like to share my views with you.

How to treat neck and shoulder pain in traditional Chinese medicine?

Treatment 1: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "if there is no pain, if there is pain, there will be no pain". When there is pain in the body, this is the manifestation of poor circulation of Qi and blood. Long term forced postures, such as standing for a long time, sitting for a long time and single posture, will definitely affect the operation of Qi and blood. When the operation of Qi and blood and meridians is hindered, pain will appear. Pain is a manifestation of the imbalance of yin and Yang in the body. If you only use drugs to stop local pain, the imbalance of the body will continue and gradually evolve into a chronic and recurrent "old problem.". Traditional Chinese medicine is still the best choice to treat this kind of old problems, and surgery is the next choice. Patients must be very careful in the operation.

Treatment 2: Bian, needle, moxibustion and medicine are commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine. Although these methods can treat neck and shoulder pain, neck and shoulder pain is relatively on the surface of the human body. Bian, needle and moxibustion are more suitable. However, it needs to be analyzed according to the specific condition, and sometimes several methods are needed to cooperate with the treatment, Chinese medicine for the treatment of shoulder and neck pain is the most appropriate.

Treatment 3: scraping neck and shoulder, 1. Scraping Du Meridian with straight line method, from Fengfu point to Dazhui point, scraping bladder meridian, from Yuzhen, Tianzhu to Dazhu and Fengmen, scraping both sides of spinous process from top to bottom on the posterior hairline, scraping 15-20 times on each side. 2. Scrape the gallbladder meridian of foot Shaoyang from the base of the wind pool and mastoid from top to bottom, through the shoulder well, to the shoulder end, 15-20 times on each side.

matters needing attention

Patients with neck and shoulder pain should eat a light diet, and eat more foods with high calcium content, such as milk, dairy products, shrimp, etc. In addition, you can also properly eat the food materials of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. For example, patients with cervical spondylosis accompanied by headache can use Gastrodia stewed chicken to help drive head wind and treat headache; Patients with low back and leg pain can eat steamed chicken with Panax notoginseng, which has analgesic and vascular effects.