It's very hot and my joints hurt.

Entering the hot and rainy dog days in summer, the changeable typhoon weather from time to time, plus blowing the fan for a long time and staying in the air-conditioned room for a long time, all make our joints ache and bear great pressure.

I often hear old people say, "It's useless when people are old, but arthritis comes when they are old. My legs and feet are weak, my knees dare not move, and I feel sore all over, especially when I go up and down the stairs, I have to walk slowly sideways ... "

Epidemiological surveys in recent years show that arthritis patients are getting younger and younger. Many young people, before they are old, start to become rigid, and every move hurts everywhere. Nowadays, migrant workers work at their desks, stay up late and work overtime, and lack exercise for a long time. If they don't take care of themselves early, they will be more and more miserable.

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Self-check the joints from four manifestations to see if there is any problem:

Whether the joint movement is limited: If the joints of the body start to move freely, you should think that you may have osteoarthritis, and it may be early.

Whether the joints are stiff: If you suddenly feel that some joints are locked after sitting for a long time, this situation is especially obvious after getting up in the morning and after a long period of inactivity. Don't doubt that your joints are sick.

Does the joint click when exercising? In the later stage of osteoarthritis, the bone under the cartilage will be exposed due to the degeneration and peeling of articular cartilage. When the joint moves, the bones under the cartilage at both ends will be exposed and make a sound when they touch each other.

Whether the joint is swollen or deformed: When the joint degeneration is serious, the synovium of the joint often becomes inflamed, resulting in water accumulation, swelling, deformation and even unbearable pain.

Osteoarthropathy belongs to the category of arthralgia syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine.

Most of them are related to exogenous pathogens invading the human body and blocking meridians.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that osteoarthrosis belongs to arthralgia syndrome. Joint pain is blocking obstruction. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that arthralgia syndrome is caused by exogenous pathogens such as wind, cold, dampness and heat invading the human body, blocking meridians, and it hurts when blocked. The onset of joint pain syndrome is not as rapid as a cold, but slow.

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The external factors are mainly related to living in a cold and humid working environment, sitting in a wetland or wading in the rain, working underwater for a long time, greedy use of air conditioning, lack of courtesy, and too few clothes to feel the evil of cold and dampness. Internal factors are mainly related to improper work and rest, overwork, overwork and staying up late, and consumption of healthy qi; Sweating after work is the wind; Take a cold bath after sweating, and foreign evils take advantage of it; Weakness, lack of exercise and decreased resistance are related.

Due to different exogenous pathogens, arthralgia has different manifestations.

"Su Wen Bi Lun" says: "Wind, cold and dampness are mixed to form Bi. The winner of the ethos is paralysis, the cold is paralysis, and the wet is paralysis. " Therefore, according to different pathogenic factors, arthralgia syndrome can be divided into arthralgia syndrome, joint pain and joint pain.

Joint pain: joint and muscle pain

Mainly manifested as limb joint and muscle pain, joint flexion and extension is unfavorable, especially in upper limbs, which can involve multiple limb joints. The pain lingers, and symptoms such as bad wind and fever can be seen at first. The tongue coating is thin and white, and the pulse is floating or slow.

Pain and joint pain: joint pain is very severe.

The main manifestations are severe pain in the joints of limbs, and even the joints can't bend and stretch. When it comes to cold pain, it will decrease when it is hot. It is characterized by severe pain and local pain. The skin color is not red, the touch is not hot, the fur is thin and white, and the pulse is tight.

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Obstruction: joint pain and swelling.

The main manifestations are severe soreness of joints of limbs, or swelling, loose swelling, numbness of skin, heavy limbs, inconvenient movement, white greasy fur and slow pulse.

Arthralgia syndrome is caused by persistent pathogenic factors, which damages liver, kidney, yin, yang and qi and blood, leading to deficiency syndrome of insufficient vital qi and excess pathogenic factors. Joint pain is mainly soreness, and the painful part likes to be rubbed. It is very painful in the case of fatigue, and the pain is light at rest, and it often recurs. Patients with this disease are often accompanied by soreness of the waist and knees, white face and cold limbs, pale tongue with white fur and deep and thin pulse.

Cleverly blanch with coarse salt and compress with herbs.

Anti-arthralgia syndrome such as joint burden reduction and diet prescription

Life nursing: combining work and rest to "reduce the burden" on joints

Develop good office habits, don't spend too much time watching computers and mobile phones, and exercise your neck, waist and knuckles more every time you work 1 hour and rest 10 minute; Appropriate swimming, walking, cycling, jogging and other sports that can not only exercise but also cause excessive pressure on joints; Do not exceed the weight, control the waist circumference and reduce the joint burden; Blow less air conditioning, and the air conditioning temperature should be appropriate; Pay attention to dress and keep warm, and don't lose your temperature in pursuit of beauty.

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Diet nursed back to health: eat less spicy and cold, and barley is a good thing.

Patients with arthralgia syndrome should pay special attention to the aftercare of diet, avoid spicy, cold and hairy things, such as seafood, peppers and bamboo shoots, supplement nutrition and increase the calcium content in diet. Here, I recommend a kind of food-coix seed. Li Shizhen once introduced two dietotherapy methods to regulate arthralgia syndrome: First, coix seed is the end, and porridge is cooked with japonica rice, which can dispel wind and remove dampness, strengthen bones and muscles, and strengthen spleen and stomach; The second kind is coix seed powder, which is brewed with distiller's yeast rice or boiled in a bag.

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Chinese medicine hot compress: stir-fry with coarse salt and hot compress joints.

If the painful part of the joint likes to be rubbed, you can burn the joint with hot salt. Stir-fry 250g of coarse salt, wrap it in gauze, apply it to the affected area, or push and iron it back and forth at the affected joint.

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Chinese medicine fumigation: Chinese medicine fumigation, massage while washing.

For patients with arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, 30g of Radix Aconiti, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Olibanum, Myrrha, Caulis Sinomenii and Radix Clematidis can be decocted in water for 30 minutes, the liquid medicine is filtered, poured into a basin, and the affected limb is put on it for fumigation. When the temperature of the liquid medicine is slightly warmer, wash the affected part with it, massage while washing, and fumigate for 30 minutes each time, daily 1 time.