NING Wei-Min's Experience in Treating Chronic Migraine with the Method of Soothing Liver,Relieving Depression and Expelling Pathogens
10.13359/j.cnki.gzxbtcm.2024.11.032
- VernacularTitle:宁为民基于疏肝开郁透邪法治疗慢性偏头痛经验
- Author:
Xue-Xing LIANG
1
;
Jia LIN
;
Wei-Min NING
Author Information
1. 广州中医药大学,广东 广州 510006;东莞市东南部中心医院,广东 东莞 523000
- Keywords:
chronic migraine;
soothing liver,relieving depression and expelling pathogens;
Kaiyu Touxie Prescription;
Chuanxiong Rhizoma;
Angelicae Dahuricae Radix;
Asari Radix et Rhizoma;
acupoint selection along the meridian;
NING Wei-Min;
clinical experience
- From:
Journal of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2024;41(11):3040-3044
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
This article summarized Professor Ning Wei-Min's experience in treating chronic migraine with the method of soothing liver,relieving depression and expelling pathogens.Chronic migraine is a common neurological disease with relatively high incidence.Currently,its treatment is mainly through oral administration of drugs,but there exist the disadvantages of unstable therapeutic effect,obvious adverse reactions after long-term medication,low treatment compliance,drug dependence,and easily ignorance of emotional co-morbidities such as anxiety and depression.Professor NING Wei-Min,a famous traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)physician of Guangdong Province,believes that chronic migraine affects the region along the meridians of the liver and gallbladder,and is closely related with the liver's function of ensuring the free movement of qi.Once the liver-qi stagnates,internal retention of phlegm and blood stasis easily induced,and persisting illness causes stagnant liver qi turning into heat,and then the headache will attack by the trigger of a variety of factors of external pathogens such as wind,cold,summer-heat,dampness and heat,as well as the emotional disorders,which leads to the stirring of liver-wind and the stagnation of phlegm-fire insidious pathogens in the meridian.For the treatment of chronic migraine,therapies of soothing liver,relieving depression and expelling pathogens can be utilized,and oral administration of Kaiyu Touxie Prescription combined with acupuncture is recommended.Kaiyu Touxie Prescription is composed of Chuanxiong Rhizoma,Angelicae Dahuricae Radix,Asari Radix et Rhizoma,Bupleuri Radix,Gastrodiae Rhizoma,Curcumae Radix,Paeoniae Radix Alba,Bombyx Batryticatus,Scorpio,Malloti Apeltae Radix Et Rhizoma,and Glycyrrhizae Radix et Rhizoma.Acupuncture is performed mainly on the acupoints along the meridians of the liver and gallbladder,such as Fengchi(GB20),Shuaigu(GB8),Toulinqi(GB15),Wangu(GB12),Xuanli(GB6),Yangbai(GB14),Yanglingquan(GB34),Taichong(LR3)and Xingjian(LR2),alternatively on acupoints of Waiguan(TE5),Hegu(LI4),Baihui(GV20),Touwei(ST8),etc.Professor NING Wei-Min's experience in treating chronic migraine with oral administration of Chinese medicine combined with acupuncture based on the method of soothing liver,relieving depression and expelling pathogens will provide a reference for clinical treatment of chronic migraine.
