Fibromyalgia Chinese remedies do not help needles

Chinese medicine sees cause in faulty Infektverläufen
When muscles and joints are unbearably painful and patients report a persistent cold and fever, it is often fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS).

Most sufferers are middle-aged women. Although the condition is common, there are many puzzles. Thus, the fibromyalgia shows neither a change in the radiograph nor in the blood. Quite a few school physicians often forward fibromyalgia patients to psychiatrists because of the lack of diagnostic options and the lack of treatment success, classifying causes as "psychosomatic". Chinese medicine, on the other hand, does not exclude mental illness factors, but considers fibromyalgia primarily as a physical disorder.

Chinese medicine sees the main cause of fibromyalgia (FMS) in the stuck infection, ie in an immune regulatory disorder. "Fibromyalgia usually starts with not cured infections", explains the chief physician of the TCM-Clinic at the Steigerwald. med. Christian Schmincke. "From the point of view of Chinese medicine, however, humans need teething troubles, respiratory tract infections with cough, runny nose, hoarseness at regular intervals as immuno-training and as 'cleaning up' of the mucous membranes and body tissues.

In FMS patients, the defense behavior in infections is disturbed. Measured by the standard course of infections, fibromyalgia sufferers feel cold, but the cold process remains stuck in its course, it does not progress to the subsequent phases with fever, phlegm discharge and regeneration. The organism is thus in the state of permanent immunological activation. He is forced to exhaust himself over and over again in the unsuccessful defense. That costs strength. Since there is no discharge of the inflammatory substances accumulate, bound to the tissue, inflammatory contaminated sites. This is cause of tiredness, pain and other symptoms.

From this explanatory model also results the Chinese therapy. The predominantly herbal ingredients in the drug therapy allow on the one hand the treatment of acute symptoms, on the other hand, but also the reversal of the faulty immune regulation. "In some fibromyalgia patients, the alternative therapy leads to bronchitis, otitis media or cystitis after years," Dr. Schmincke the effects.

This catch-up of the old infections is controlled with the help of Chinese recipes so that the cold no longer goes inward, but is led out of the body, for example via mucous membranes. The most popular therapeutic pill of Chinese medicine, acupuncture, is not always possible with fibromyalgia. Patients often suffer from massive touch sensitivity, and even the gentle piercing of a thin needle causes pain. The diet according to the principles of Chinese medicine, however, complements the Chinese drug therapy well. This is about promoting cleansing with detoxifying food. Cold-acting foods such as cottage cheese and raw food should be avoided.