Chinese medicine teaches you gallstones.
Notes of Wu Xianzhong, Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine:
From the mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine, the formation of gallstones is mostly due to the long-term stagnation of liver qi, and then the accumulation of damp heat, so that bile fluid boils and condenses into stones. According to TCM syndrome differentiation, it is similar to biliary tract infection. If gallstones are in a static state, they can be manifested as "unlicensed illness", and when biliary colic occurs, they can be manifested as liver depression and qi stagnation. If it is complicated with infection, it shows damp heat or heat toxicity.
—— Excerpt from Interpretation of Prescriptions and Medicines for Acute Abdomen
Interpretation of TCM
Cholelithiasis, also known as cholelithiasis, is a common disease in biliary system. The function of biliary system is mainly to transport, store, concentrate and excrete bile. Therefore, if the physiological structure or bile composition of the biliary system itself changes, solid crystal gallstones will form in any part of the biliary system, and even cause biliary obstruction, and further cancer lesions will be derived from the biliary system.
According to experts' research, the causes of gallstones are mostly bad living habits. If you don't eat breakfast often, the content of cholic acid in bile will decrease, bile will concentrate and stones will form in gallbladder. In addition, after dinner, I often lie down and watch TV, newspapers and magazines, sleep immediately after dinner, and eat high fat for dinner, which will also slow down the digestion and emptying of food in my stomach. Constant food will cause a lot of bile secretion. At this time, because * * * is supine or semi-recumbent, bile drainage will not be smooth, and it will accumulate in the bile duct, leading to the formation of stones. And if you eat sweets regularly, too much sugar will secrete insulin, increase the synthesis of glycogen and fat, and increase the synthesis and accumulation of cholesterol, which will lead to the increase of cholesterol in bile and gallstones.
From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, the formation of gallstones is mainly due to the stagnation of liver qi for a long time, and then the accumulation of damp heat leads to the stagnation of bile fluid. Generally speaking, when gallstones are at rest, they can be manifested as "unlicensed illness", but when biliary colic attacks, they will be manifested as liver depression and qi stagnation. If it is complicated with infection, it shows damp heat or heat toxicity. As an expert on acute abdomen, Professor Wu Xianzhong has cured countless patients with cholelithiasis. The following are two prescriptions commonly used in his clinic, which can be used as reference for related patients.
1. Bile duct decoction
Comprises 78g of Gardenia, 39g of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, 39g of Fructus Aurantii, 39g of Radix Aucklandiae, 39g of Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, 78g of Herba Lysimachiae Christinae and 39g of Radix Bupleuri.
Decoct with water, 3 times a day, each time 100 ml.
Clearing away heat, benefiting gallbladder and expelling stones.
Indications: hepatolithiasis and cholelithiasis.
In the prescription, clearing heat and promoting diuresis, Gardenia, Bupleurum root, Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, Fructus Aurantii and Radix Aucklandiae regulate qi and relieve pain, and Lysimachia christinae removes heat and promoting diuresis and removes stones, and simultaneously attacks rhubarb.
2. Bile Duct Paishi Decoction 1
Comprises Bupleuri Radix, Radix Curcumae 12g, Herba Lysimachiae Christinae 30g, Radix Aucklandiae 18g, Fructus Aurantii 12g, and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei 30g.
Decoct with water, 1 dose, twice a day.
Soothing the liver and regulating qi, benefiting gallbladder and expelling stones.
Indications: Gallstones due to qi stagnation.
In the prescription, Bupleurum DC. Soothing liver and regulating qi, Lysimachia christinae DC. Clearing heat and promoting diuresis, turmeric DC. Activating blood circulation to relieve pain, Radix Aucklandiae and Fructus Aurantii regulating qi to relieve pain, and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei purging the interior.
Healthy echo wall
Cholelithiasis is a kind of acute abdomen, which causes biliary colic as sharp as a knife, making patients extremely painful. Once an attack occurs, the following emergency measures can be taken:
1. Acupoint acupressure relieves pain
Let the patient undress and lie prone, and press the three points of liver, gallbladder and spleen with thumb or palm. If the colic persists after pressing, you can use steamed or boiled towels to hot compress Qimen point under the right and the upper abdomen under the xiphoid process (heart) to relieve pain.
2. Bake Xiaxi point with cigarettes
Xiaxi point has a tender position at the instep of the foot between the fourth and fifth toes. Light a cigarette (moxa stick is better) and bake it at this acupoint (be careful not to get too close, so as not to hurt your skin). The length of baking depends on the patient's reaction. If you don't feel hot when you start baking, bake until you feel hot; If you feel hot at first and bake until it is not hot, the pain can be relieved.
Five prescriptions of gallstones in traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescription (1)
Syndrome differentiation of damp-heat stagnation of liver and gallbladder invading China.
Relieve gallbladder and stone, benefit spleen and relieve pain.
Fangming Biliary Duct Paishi Decoction.
It consists of 9 grams of Bupleurum, 6 grams of Pseudostellaria heterophylla 15 grams, 0/5 grams of Paeonia lactiflora, 30 grams of Desmodium styracifolium, 0/2 grams of Radix Curcumae/kloc-0, 6 grams of Pollen Typhae, 6 grams of Oletum Trogopterori and 3 grams of licorice.
Usage: decoct with water, 1 dose, twice a day.
Originated in Deng Tietao.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescription (2)
The connotation of damp heat is differentiated and accumulated into stones for a long time.
Soothing the liver and regulating qi, benefiting gallbladder and expelling stones.
Fang Mingdan Paishi Tang.
Consists of 9 grams of prepared rhubarb, 9 grams of immature bitter orange, 0/5g of giant knotweed rhizome/kloc-,0/5g of turmeric root/kloc-,and 30g of lysimachia christinae.
Usage: decoct with water, 1 dose, twice a day.
Originated in Jiang Chunhua.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescription (III)
Syndrome of liver depression and qi stagnation.
Soothing the liver, relieving depression, regulating qi and relieving pain.
Fangming Shugan Lidan Decoction.
It consists of Bupleurum10g, Fructus Aurantii Immaturus10g, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride10g, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae10g, Polygonum cuspidatum 30g, Flos Lonicerae 30g, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei12g, Herba Lysimachiae Christinae 30g, Herba Artemisiae Scopariae 30g and Radix Curcumae.
Usage: decoct with water, 1 dose, twice a day.
Source Xie Xinjian Fang
Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescription (IV)
Syndrome differentiation liver qi stagnation, wood stagnation into fire.
Soothing the liver and regulating qi, clearing heat and relieving depression, benefiting gallbladder and expelling stones.
Fang mingqing gallbladder fossil soup.
It consists of 6 grams of Bupleurum, 0/5g of centipede/kloc-,6 grams of corydalis yanhusuo, 0/5g of Lysimachia christinae, 0/5g of Jin Lingzi/kloc-,9 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, 6 grams of Radix Curcumae, 3 grams of medulla tetrapanacis, 0/2g of dandelion/kloc-and 0/5g of Herba Artemisiae Scopariae.
Usage: decoct with water, 1 dose, twice a day.
The source is Weng Gongfang.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescription (5)
Syndrome of damp-heat accumulation in liver and gallbladder.
The treatment methods are soothing the liver and benefiting gallbladder, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, regulating qi and regulating camp, and relieving pain and resolving hard mass.
Fangming Shugan Lidan Decoction.
It is prepared from Radix Bupleuri 10g, Radix Scutellariae 8g, Spora Lygodii 15g, Herba Lysimachiae Christinae 15g, Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli 10g, Rhizoma Chuanxiong 8g, parched Jin Lingzi 10g, Radix Paeoniae Alba 10g, and parched Fructus Aurantii Immaturus.
Usage: decoct with water, 1 dose, twice a day.
Originated in Li Peisheng.
Eating well, drinking well and sleeping well can effectively prevent gallstones.
Cholelithiasis is very common, but the focus of the disease is prevention. Only prevention can lead to early detection. To prevent gallstone diseases, we should pay attention to the following points:
eat
There are many people lying on the sofa watching TV and eating snacks after meals, among which potato chips are the main ones. They are called "couch potatoes". "Sofa potato" itself and physical labor are very few, and it is easy to gradually reduce the contractility of gallbladder. When curled up, the intra-abdominal pressure increases, and gastrointestinal peristalsis is restricted, which is not conducive to food and bile excretion, hinders the reabsorption of bile acids, makes the ratio of cholesterol and bile acids in bile unbalanced, and cholesterol is easy to deposit and form stones.
drink
Drinking a glass of milk before going to bed can effectively prevent it. Because milk can empty the gallbladder, bile will not be deposited and concentrated in the gallbladder overnight, thus avoiding the formation of small crystals in the gallbladder and preventing gallstones.
Pull
Pay attention to feces after defecation. If the discharge is gray and loose, we should realize that it may be a problem of biliary tract, which affects the normal secretion of bile and prevents it from entering the intestinal cavity through the biliary tract and yellowing the feces. Elderly people with gallstones, biliary tract infections and biliary tract diseases are advised to observe the changes of feces every day.
spill over
Drinking plenty of water can promote smooth urination, dilute urine components and reduce the risk of gallstones. It should be noted that it is best to drink boiled water and drink less sugary drinks, which will increase blood lipids and produce cholesterol stones.
sleep
A study by Danqing Qiangtie Biliary Rehabilitation Center shows that patients with gallstones often get sick at night, and the reason is related to the left position of the human body. According to experts in gallbladder diseases, there were no obvious symptoms when stones began to form in the gallbladder. After nightfall, people often lie on their left side, with the gallbladder bottom and gallbladder body facing up. The neck of gallbladder and cystic duct are in the lower part. Therefore, the stones in the gallbladder gradually squeeze into the neck of the gallbladder under the action of gravity, thus causing pressure in the capsule. Experts remind patients with gallstones not to lie on their left side, but to lie on their back or on their right side.
expert opinion/advice
Skipping breakfast makes gallstones "younger"
As the saying goes: "A year's plan lies in spring, and a day's plan lies in the morning." Maybe you will spend an hour getting dressed before going to work in the morning, and another half hour arranging the day's schedule, but you can't spare a proper breakfast? In fact, no matter students or office workers, if there is not enough energy, the "machine" will run in fatigue.
Experts from the Bile Disease Rehabilitation Center suggest that gallstones, which used to be common, are getting higher and higher among young people, which is caused by skipping breakfast and eating a high-fat diet.
If you don't eat breakfast for a long time, you will unconsciously fall into the "root cause": the gallbladder is the place where bile is stored. After eating, the gallbladder begins to contract, and bile is discharged into the intestine to help digest food. If you don't eat breakfast, your gallbladder won't contract. If bile is stored in your gallbladder for a long time, you will suffer from gallstones. Therefore, breakfast must be eaten and eaten healthily.
What should gallstone diet pay attention to?
1 to avoid irregular diet
When people are hungry, bile emptying decreases, but bile remains. Bile is concentrated in the gallbladder and its viscosity increases, which is easy to promote the formation and increase of gallstones. Therefore, it is necessary to develop new habits, especially the habit of eating breakfast, in order to reduce the occurrence of gallstones. This is the reason why Shangshu "can't eat out of season".
2. Avoid foods high in fat and cholesterol.
The formation of gallstones is related to lipid metabolism disorder and high cholesterol. When people digest high-fat foods, they need a lot of bile. Patients with gallstones and cholecystitis will have biliary colic when their gallbladder contracts rapidly. If stones block the bile duct, the pain will be more severe, accompanied by symptoms such as pallor, nausea and vomiting. Patients with chronic cholecystitis may have indigestion symptoms such as dull pain in gallbladder area, abdominal distension, nausea and anorexia after eating high-fat food due to poor bile secretion. Therefore, patients with this disease should limit their fat intake, and it is best to use vegetable fat. Cholesterol is an important raw material, and more than 90% of gallstones are composed of cholesterol. Restricting foods with high cholesterol content can regulate the cholesterol level in the body and prevent the formation of gallstones. Foods with high cholesterol include animal offal, eggs, crab roe, squid and shrimp skin. Patients with this disease should eat more cholesterol-lowering foods, such as oats, buckwheat, soybeans, mushrooms, onions, hawthorn, milk, seaweed and so on.
3, avoid spicy fried food
Spicy condiments, such as Zanthoxylum bungeanum and Sichuan pepper, can increase the production of cholecystokinin, the sphincter of biliary tract can not relax, and bile flow is not smooth, so it should be banned. Fried and barbecued foods, which produce toxic substances at high temperature, can cause biliary tract and biliary colic, and should also be banned.
4. Avoid eating gas-producing food.
Patients with cholelithiasis and chronic cholecystitis are usually accompanied by weakened digestive function, and their condition is often aggravated by flatulence. Therefore, beans, sweet potatoes, taro, garlic, leeks and other foods that are easy to cause flatulence should be used with caution.
Tips: A notable feature of gallstones is that women are more important than men, and female patients are 2-4 times higher than male patients! So female friends should pay special attention to it ~