Traditional Chinese medicine entering global markets
BEIJING — An indigenous Chinese herb, growing across the country, has been used to treat a variety of diseases for hundreds of years. Now it has entered global markets.
It is called Danshen in Chinese, or Salvia miltiorrhiza in Latin.
Its product, Fufang Danshen Diwan, extracting curative ingredients mainly from the herbal plant, is now available in 16 African countries and becomes the first Chinese herbal medicine approved by the Food and Drug Administration for clinical tests in the United States.
The medicine is now undergoing clinical tests in the US and European Union, which are going well, according to the producer, Tasly Pharmaceutical in the northern port city of Tianjin.
Although a small step forward, the success has cast light on the development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
Often a complex mixture of herbs and animal products, TCM has found it tough to enter the area dominated by the Western pharmaceuticals, as it is hard to explain the magic working of TCM in scientific language.
The key to the globalization of TCM would be standardization, Dr. Bradley B. Keller, the Pediatric Biomedical Innovation Development director at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh said.
Trying to find and integrate the effective curative compounds in herbal plants would be the new hope, many researchers and drug makers agreed.
True standardization could not be attained without knowing the effective compounds in TCM, Yang Xiuwei, head of the school of pharmaceuticals at Peking University, has said.
According to government figures, the industrial output of TCM reached 177.2 billion yuan ($25.9 billion) in 2007, accounting for 26.53 percent of the total pharmaceutical industrial output value.
Facial Pain
Guanjianzi: facial pain，Invasion of Pathogenic Wind and Cold，Stagnation of Fire of the Liver and Stomach，Excessive Fire due to Yin Deficiency，Main Manifestations，Treatment，Prescription
Facial Pain
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Invasion of Pathogenic Wind and Cold |
Stagnation of Fire of the Liver and Stomach |
Excessive Fire due to Yin Deficiency |
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Main Manifestations |
Abrupt onset of pain occurs like an electric shock. The pain in cutting, burning and intolerable, but transient and paroxysmal. Each attack lasts a few seconds or one to two minutes. It may occur by the local spasm, lacrimation , nasal discharge and salivation as well as the exterior symptoms and string-taut, tense pulse. |
Besides the characters of pain in last type, it combines with irritability, hot temper, thirst, constipation, yellow, dry tongue coating and string-taut rapid pulse.
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Insidions pain, emaciation, malar flush, soreness in the lumbar region, lassitude, pain aggravated by fatigue, thready, rapid pulse, red tongue with little coating. |
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Treatment
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The points are selected from the local area and the distal and along the course of the affected meridians, and punctured by reduing manipulation with filiform needles combining with continuous rotation. |
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Prescription |
Pain at supraorbital region : Yangbai (GB 14), Yugao (EX-HN 4), Cuanzhu (BL 2), Taiyang (EX-HN 5), Hegu (LI 4). |
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Additional Points |
Invasion of pathogenic wind and cold : Fengchi (GB 20); |
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Acupuncture and moxibustion treatment-cold
Ordinary cold is respiratory tracts infectious disease due to the virus. Clinical manifestation its for get up disease to be relatively worried, some symptom have sneeze, have a stuffy nose, flow tears, person who swallow do, itch, have a pain, voice is hoarse or cough, whole body symptom is relatively light, the adult does not generate heat or have low-grade fever.
Acupuncture and moxibustion treats the modern literature of ordinary cold to see in 1954 for the first time. [1]Later, not numerous to this common disease report. But since the eighties, not merely France where the point was amazing was various day by day, for instance, the point was injected, moxibustion of ending, point massage, setting aside the pot,etc., there are certain results. Observe quantity expand constantly also, have, adopt law that point find fault, carry on to observe on a large scale a thousand sample, curative effect is definite.
Except treating, also there is function of preventing cold in acupuncture and moxibustion, adopt the point to inject and link men in France such as glue calcium or placenta tissue fluid in early days. Maintain the method is for the moxibustion law of simple and convenient ending at present.
Eyes needle
Eyes needle begin, apply will it be the seventies the 20th century to, acupuncture and moxibustion house according to ancient times about ” watch eyes examine disease ” JingShan Peng Record,through observation and practice of treatings repeated of patient of tens of thousands of, a kind of little needle treatment that can be formed. Eyes needle law, there are less cave districts, all around eyes, easy to master; Only the acupuncture under the cover, safer too.
[Adapt to the disease ]
Eyes stitch use mainly for apoplexy ‘ Cerebral hemorrhage, brain block up etc.) Hemiplegia, in order to have illness coming on the within 3 months, persons who have not presented deformation of limb, the result is the best. Can still be used in headache, toothache, sprain dampening, sit acutely
Bone neuralgia, menstruation, stomach enterospasm,etc. are treated.
eyes needle
[Attentive matters ]
Eyes avoid stabing the eyeball at the stitch. In left eye the eighth district of acupuncture and right eye and the fourth zone time, can’t be too deep, the artery so as not to adjoin while accidentallying injure, cause and bleed. The eyelid is plump, the eyelid vein was decreased obviously or somely and sickly, should use the eyes needle carefully.
Promote the facial and head region-Acupressure Techniques for Health Maintenance —
Chinese massage promotes blood and qi flows, smoothes meridians and regulates organs, and thus benefits the overall physical condition. For musculoskeletal problems, it is best to obtain the services of a massage professional, as improper massage manipulation can easily lead to further damage. For general health maintenance, there are some acupressure techniques that you can do yourself. The techniques are simple and fairly easy to learn. Generally, you just need to select an appropriate massage plan that suits your health need, perform it in the morning and evening and make it last 20-30 minutes each time. When kneading or pressing on particular points, the force should bring about numbness or soreness, while rubbing or wiping should create a feeling of warmth.
Massage to promote
Massage to promote the facial and head region
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Place the middle knuckles of the index fingers in the center of the forehead, and push apart firmly and slowly, and then knead along the hairline, about 40 times.
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Wipe the temples: thumb press firmly on the temples, wipe back and forth in the temple area, about 30 times.
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Press-knead the back of the head: firmly press the thumb on the depressions below the occipital bone (Gb20), at the bottom of the skull, 10 times. Follow by kneading along the bottom hairline about 30 times; this usually creates a feeling of soreness.
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Pat the crown of the head: sit still with eyes looking forward and teeth clenched, use the palm to pat evenly over the area about 10 times.
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Rub the face: rub the hands together to warm them, cover the forehead with the palms, rub forcefully downward to the chin, and let the palm edges slide along the chin, rub toward the ears, proceed to the temples and to the forehead again. Repeat the procedure 20-30 times until the face feels warm.
This massage can invigorate mental functions, refresh the mind, and also benefit in the treatment of headache, dizziness, insomnia, amnesia, neurosis and facial paralysis.