Having a rare disease does not mean that life is over! A seven-year-old boy was diagnosed with a rare form of scleroderma. While receiving Western medical treatment, he also sought help from Chinese medicine doctor Sheng-Pu Lee, and gradually regained his health with diligent medication and rehabilitation, and his scleroderma symptoms improved significantly.
Scleroderma, an unfamiliar disease that gradually hardens the skin all over the body, is a chronic autoimmune disease whose cause is unknown. How scary is scleroderma? In normal people, crusty tissues are produced only when wounds heal, but scleroderma patients, under normal circumstances, will continue to produce crusty tissues, not only the skin, and even the lungs, gastrointestinal tract, kidneys and other organs may also produce fibrosis death.
The boy’s skin on his waist and hands and feet was already partially sclerotic when he visited the doctor. Compared to normal skin, not only did it look obviously collapsed and atrophied, but it also felt hard to the touch. Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee, a Chinese medicine doctor who has treated scleroderma patients as early as 30 years ago, said that the boy had already received steroid treatment from Western medicine at that time, and turned to Chinese medicine for treatment at the same time without giving up any ray of hope, and the result was very obvious, and the scleroderma area has been gradually revitalized.
The simplest way to identify scleroderma is to clearly see the thickening and hardening of the skin from the outside, for example, scleroderma on the face, and even a stiff smile. Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee has seen a male patient who could not even make facial expressions and could not bend the fingers of both hands to grasp objects. According to Chinese medicine, the cause of scleroderma is closely related to the lung and the large intestine because they are both responsible for the skin, and the imbalance of the lung’s clear qi and the large intestine’s turbid qi may be reflected in general skin diseases and allergies. Dry skin and dry eyes are actually related to scleroderma in one way or another.
Why does scleroderma occur? Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee explained, citing Chinese medicine, the main reason comes from the body’s poor metabolism of nutrients, the temperature of the large intestine, poor gasification, resulting in the inability to supply the required heat to the skin, coupled with the lack of clear Qi in the lungs, affecting the breathing and elasticity of the skin, then if the liver function is not good, there will be a similar disease.
In the treatment of scleroderma, Chinese medicine advocates a three-pronged approach of nourishing the liver, tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, and strengthening the stomach and intestines, starting with the large intestine and liver in the body to replenish the vital Qi of the large intestine and channel it to the epidermis in order to achieve results. At the same time, it is necessary to pay attention to the sweat glands and water excretion in the body, so that the function of heat dissipation in the epidermis will not be affected. Although there is no cure for scleroderma, through Chinese medicine, Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee emphasized that the disease can be controlled and its deterioration delayed, allowing patients to reduce their dependence on Western steroids and restore a better quality of life.
For the treatment of scleroderma, liver nourishment is also a major key, Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee said, because liver nourishment Chinese medicine is also beneficial to the body’s absorption and storage of vitamin A, so it can help the liver to restore better function, help the body to improve, and gradually achieve the purpose of relieving scleroderma symptoms.
According to clinical experience, the initial results of scleroderma treatment with Chinese medicine can be seen in about one to three months, but patients with more severe disease need to be patient and spend at least six months to a year to carefully nurture their body, and for patients who cannot even move their limbs normally, the treatment is even more difficult.
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Originally from: Health.chinatimes.com
Health Chinatimes/ Reporter Xue-Hua Wang reports 2010.05.26
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