009 - Strengthening the Support (Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang)

Categories: joint pain from external pathogens (Bi Zheng), chronic lumbar pain, tailbone pain, weather-responsive pain, feeling of morning looseness and stiffness, pain when standing for long periods, improvement of problems with heat

Description:

This is an artfully compounded blend by the famous Tang Dynasty physician Sun Si Miao, which is primarily for painful obstructions in the pathways and conjunctions in the terrain of deficiency, both in the lumbar and sacral regions as well as the joints. The disease either lasts for a long time, so that the vital substances have become depleted, or it is an otherwise depleted body with a deficiency of Qi and blood, especially Kidney and Liver, which nourish the motor tissues. This makes it a bit different from the Tong Yao Zhui Tang blend, which is a bit more for acute conditions without the need to replenish Qi energy. In Bi Zheng (obstructive pain syndromes) the pain is caused by a blockage in the pathways caused by some external climatic factor - usually cold, wind and damp. Therefore, pain is very often responsive to changes in weather. This "external pollutant" enters the body all the more easily because what it is supposed to nourish - the Liver and Kidneys - is weakened. In addition to chronic and often dull pain, the patient feels weakness in the hips or knees. Morning flakiness and a feeling of heaviness in the affected area is also a frequent symptom, often dominating more than the pain itself.

Indications:

-joint pain from external pathogens (Bi Zheng) with deficiency of Liver and Kidney, Qi and Blood.

-chronic lumbar pain associated with Liver and Kidney, Qi and Blood insufficiency

-skeletal pain

-feeling of heaviness and pain fixed to a spot in the lumbar and lower extremity area

-pain responsive to weather

-feeling of morning flakiness and stiffness

-aching when standing for long periods of time

-feeling of weakness in the hips

-cold intolerance

-improvement of discomfort with heat

Modern Uses:

-rheumatoid arthritis

-chronic lumbago

-sciatica

-oyster

-disc prolapse

-SI (sacroiliac) joint problem

-hepatitis

-skin disease

-impotence

Language:

-pale with white coating

Pulse:

-xi (thin)

-ruo (weak)

-chi (slow)

Contraindications:

-painful obstructions (Bi syndromes) associated with great excess, e.g. damp heat (Shi Re) - condition is weak pulse or predominance of stiffness over severe pain

Remark:

To work well, the mixture must be used for a long time. It is effective as a basic mixture for all types of painful obstructions and atrophy of the lower limbs.

Due to its good function of clearing pathways and connectors (luo), it is also used in modern times for other types of blockages related to Qi and blood insufficiency associated with their obstruction, such as hepatitis, skin diseases (psoriasis, scleroderma) or impotence.

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