Bronchial asthma is a kind of paroxysmal allergic dis-ease of the bronchia. The clinical manifestations are par-oxysmal and exhaling dyspnea accompanied by wheezing. The patients usually have allergy and family history. This disease is similar to asthma and asthmatic cough in TCM. It is usually caused by dysfunction of the lung, spleen and kidney due to exogenous pathogenic factors, improper diet and improper caring after illness, leading to retention of endogenous phlegm in the lung. The latent phlegm is easy to be provoked by climatic changes, diet, emotional chan-ges and overstrain, leading to ascendance of the phlegm with qi that obstructs the trachea and causes asthma. Recurrent asthma will result in simultaneous asthenia of the lung, spleen and kidney, or even involve the heart and bring about critical conditions.
asthma
Treatment
1. Body acupuncture
Prescription. Feishu (BL 13 ), Dingchuan (EX ¡§C B 1), Tiantu (CV 22), Zhongfu (LU 1), Tanzhong (CV 17) and Kongzui (LU 6).
Modification: For retention of cold fluid in the lung, Fengmen (BL 12) and Taiyuan (LU 9) are added; for stagnation of phlegm-heat in the lung, Dazhui (GV 14)
and Fenglong (ST 40) are added; for asthenia of spleen and lung qi, Pishu (BL 20), Gaohuang (BL 43), Qihai (CV 6) and Zusanli (ST 36) are added; for asthenia of lung and kidney yin, Shenshu (BL 23), Guanyuan (CV 4), Taixi (KI 3) and Sanyinjiao (SP 6) are added; for asthe-nia of heart and kidney yang, Xinshu (BL 15), Shenshu (BL 23), Qihai (CV 6), Guanyuan (CV 4) and Neiguan (pc 6) are added; for tidal fever and night sweating, Yinxi (HT 6) and Fuliu (KI 7) are added; for coma, Shui-gou (GV 26) and Suliao (GV 25) are added.
Performance: In the stage of attack, usually filiform needles are used with reducing techniques. For the treat-ment of syndrome with a mixture of asthenia and sthenia, mild reinforcing and reducing technique can be used. The needling is done twice or more a day. Electrical acupunc-ture can also be used at the same time. Each time 2 - 3 couples of acupoints are selected and dense or sparse wave can be chosen, 400 - 500 times one minute. The stimula-tion is monitored to the tolerance of the patient. The elec-tricity is attached to the needles for 30 - 40 minutes. In the remission stage, reinforcing technique is used. The needling is done once every 1- 2 days. For the treatment of cold syndrome, qi asthenia syndrome and yang asthenia syndrome, acupuncture and moxibustion can be used together; for weak and slow regular intermittent pulse and slow pulse with irregular intervals, Qihai (CV 6) and Guanyuan (CV 4 ) are moxibusted heavily for restoring yang and stopping prostration.
