Chinese medicine for relaxing muscles and activating blood circulation

Relaxing the muscles and tendons is what many people are yearning for now, because it can better relieve the limbs and improve numbness and swelling. It also has a good effect on treating hemiplegia, lung heat, wheezing and coughing, oliguria and edema, and hypertension. However, we need to pay attention to relaxing the muscles and tendons, and it is not just through exercise or massage, but also through conditioning with Chinese medicine.

Traditional Chinese medicine for promoting blood circulation

Earthworms are mainly produced in Guangxi, Guangdong and Fujian. It is cold in nature and salty in taste. Clears away heat and calms the nerves, dredges the meridians, calms asthma, and acts as a diuretic; used for high fever, coma, epilepsy, convulsions, joint paralysis, limb numbness, hemiplegia, lung heat, asthma, cough, oliguria, edema, and hypertension

It has a good heat-clearing effect, can clear liver heat, and can also significantly reduce high fever and lower body temperature. It can be used for wind caused by excessive heat, febrile diseases, or convulsions in children with high fever. But it is not commonly used because its effect of calming wind and stopping spasms is weak, and the antipyretic and anti-spasmodic effects are more obvious when fresh, while the effect of dried decoction is not obvious. The most common use of dried product is to dredge meridians or relax muscles and tendons. Tonifying meridians means relaxing muscles and tendons, relieving joint contractures and difficulty in flexion and extension.

It is often used to activate blood vessels, dredge blood vessels or meridians, and improve numbness, hemiplegia, and facial paralysis. The combination of hemiplegia and qi-tonifying and blood-nourishing, blood circulation-activating and blood stasis-removing herbs such as astragalus, safflower and chuanxiong for relieving asthma. It can be used for asthma caused by lung heat. Diuretic and detumescent. Used for edema caused by damp-heat. The most commonly used ones are to dredge meridians and relieve asthma. Antiasthmatic means relieving the spasm of bronchial smooth muscles.

1. Clears away heat and calms wind, used for high fever, epilepsy and mania. Earthworms are salty, cold, and have a dispersing nature. They can calm wind and stop convulsions, and are good at clearing away high fever. Therefore, they are suitable for mania, convulsions, epilepsy and other symptoms caused by high fever. For the treatment of extreme heat-induced wind-induced coma, delirium, convulsions and convulsions caused by febrile diseases, this product can be taken alone as a decoction, or it can be used together with other wind-calming and convulsion-relieving drugs such as Uncaria rhynchophylla, Bezoar, and Bombyx batryticatus. For the treatment of infantile convulsions, high fever, and convulsions, this product can be ground into powder and mixed with cinnabar to make pills for oral administration. For the treatment of high fever, mania or epilepsy, the fresh product is often used alone, dissolved in water with salt, and then drunk.

2. It can promote blood circulation and activate collaterals, and is used for arthralgia and hemiplegia. Earthworms are good at clearing the meridians and are used to treat meridian blockage, poor blood circulation, and joint discomfort caused by various reasons. Because of its cold nature and ability to clear away heat, it is suitable for treating hot arthralgia caused by red, swollen and painful joints, and difficulty in flexion and extension. It is often used in combination with drugs such as Stephania Tetrandra, Gentiana Macrophylla, and Lonicera japonica to remove dampness and heat and dredge the meridians.

It is also used to treat wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, numbness, pain, and difficulty in flexion and extension of limb joints. It can be used in combination with Chuanwu, Arisaema, frankincense, etc., such as Xiaohuo Luo Dan. It is often used in combination with astragalus, angelica, Chuanxiong, etc., such as Buyang Huanwu Decoction, to treat qi deficiency and blood stasis, meridian dysfunction after stroke, hemiplegia, and facial paralysis.