A "stick" can completely solve men's back pain

Low back pain is a very common condition. Trauma, injury, and external wind, cold, and dampness can all cause low back pain. There are many types of low back pain clinically, including both real and false symptoms, and the treatment methods may also be different, but one medicine is often seen in the treatment of different types of low back pain - Polygonum cuspidatum.

Japanese knotweed is often used to treat various types of low back pain. An old doctor often joked that if you have low back and leg pain and it is inconvenient to walk, just give you a piece of "Japanese knotweed" to lean on. Yes, the name is indeed very interesting, and of course the effect is also very good.

The name of Japanese knotweed also has a origin. Japanese knotweed is a plant of the Polygonaceae family. It has a horizontal, woody rhizome and a yellowish-brown outer bark. The stem is erect, clustered, hollow, and has scattered red or purple spots on the surface, resembling tiger skin spots. Therefore, Shizhen said: "The stick refers to the stem, and the tiger refers to the spots."

Polygonum cuspidatum is bitter and slightly cold in nature. It enters the liver, gallbladder, and lung meridians. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, promoting dampness and relieving jaundice, clearing away heat and detoxifying. It is often used for low back pain caused by external evils such as trauma or rheumatic fever. "Yi Lin Zong Yao" records: "Applying it to the injured or broken parts can repair tendons and bones." It has a good therapeutic effect on waist and leg pain.

As the saying goes, "A doctor who does not know medicine is like a general who does not know his soldiers." Therefore, I only got to know Polygonum cuspidatum after I became a doctor, and then I realized that we were old acquaintances. I often played with it when I was a child. Because its stem is hollow and grows in water-rich places, it cannot be used as firewood, so it became a weapon for my friends.

Pull out one with force and remove the leaves, and you will have a "dog beating stick", a weapon for fighting with friends. It would be even better if you pull out part of the root, as it can be a natural walking stick, a "dragon head walking stick" is no more than that! When I was a child, I was always easily satisfied and had a very rich imagination. I could think of an unknown hollow stick as a dog-beating stick and a dragon-headed cane.