What are the traditional Chinese medicine therapies with distinctive features for farmer's lung?
Farmer's lung is one of more than twenty types of pneumoconiosis and belongs to the organic pneumoconiosis series; it has not yet been included among the statutorily designated pneumoconioses in China. The twelve types already included as pneumoconioses in China are silicosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis, electric graphite pneumoconiosis, carbon graphite pneumoconiosis, talc pneumoconiosis, cement pneumoconiosis, aluminum pneumoconiosis, mica pneumoconiosis, foundry workers' pneumoconiosis, welders' pneumoconiosis and others, all of which are inorganic pneumoconioses. Traditional Chinese medicine treats pneumoconiosis with distinctive therapies that do not distinguish between organic and inorganic types, using green therapies such as acupoint herbal medicated-cup infiltration.
The twelve types of pneumoconiosis already listed as statutorily designated pneumoconioses in China are all pneumoconioses caused by industrial dust. Farmer's lung is pneumoconiosis formed after crop dust and the like is inhaled into the lungs and cannot be expelled; because the human body is also an organic entity, the adhesion and mutual solubility are in fact stronger, making it even harder to clear. The distinctive traditional Chinese medicine therapy of acupoint medicated-cup infiltration for treating farmer's lung and other pneumoconioses combines cupping therapy with herbal medicine therapy by combining cupping with natural medicinal materials extracted through nanotechnology.
The specific treatment method is that on the local acupoints of the meridians related to farmer's lung and other pneumoconioses, specially made medicated cups are used with high-pressure infiltration to promote the dilation of local capillaries. This allows the active ingredients of the medicine to enter the lesion site directly, carry away exudates, and strengthen the alveolar and tracheal mucosa. It can also naturally repair the tissues and cells at the lesion site, promote local microcirculation in the lungs, relieve or eliminate respiratory spasms, inhibit glandular secretion, and promote the regenerative capacity of the lesion site.
The distinctive traditional Chinese medicine treatment of farmer's lung and other pneumoconioses relies on and inherits the basic essence of green therapies in traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese herbal medicine, with remarkable results. Moreover, Chinese medicinal materials have a wide range of sources, which is conducive to promotion; the principles of traditional Chinese medicine meridians and the functions of acupoints have been expanded in the new therapy, and it has also laid the foundation for more green therapies of traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese herbal medicine, such as acupoint herbal fumigation, acupoint medicated-cup magnetic therapy, and acupoint interventional injection. On this basis, it can also be combined with Chinese herbal preparations, physical therapy methods, personalized treatment methods and plans, and so on, to better improve the therapeutic effect.