Trauma

We are easy to be hurt when we have sport, or to do something else. We feel pain on the skin or bone, the skin turns bruise and swelling and we hardly are able to move the arm, wrist or legs. People are educated and experienced to run into the hospital for help. Here we introduce some Chinese tips to solve the trauma by yourself.

If the affected area shows swelling, but no purple color, you can cover the affected area with warm towel. Then massage on the area little bit with light force. If there are both swelling and the skin color has changed into purple, you can use cold towel first to cover the affected area for 20 min to maximum hour to stop bleeding. Twenty min of cold patch is enough to reduce the bleeding. It should not be used for a long time. Otherwise, it will only make the later recovery slower. After the stop of the bleeding, change to warm towel to cover the affected area. Repeat two to three times a day. You can also massage slightly on the affected area little bit to speed up the reduction of swelling.

(1). Chestnut

Material: chestnut (Li zi), not cooked or processed at all. .

Preparation: Remove the out shell of the chestnut. Bite into pieces in your mouth. Put the chestnut mud on the wounded area.

Function: it works to reduce swelling and pain.

(2). Red hot pepper

Material: Red hot pepper and Vaseline.

Preparation: Grind the hot pepper into powder (you can get the powder in grocery store). Take some Vaseline that is five times of that of the pepper powder. Melt the Vaseline in a pot. Add the pepper powder in, mix well. Cool the mixture down quickly.

How to use: smear the paste on the wounded area. Cover with several layers of gauze. Chang the pepper-Vaseline paste every day.

Function: It works to release pain and swelling.

(3). Crab-cook wine

Material: Crab and some cook wine.

Preparation: Dry the crab over the oven. Grind it into powder.

How to use: Drink the powder, 10g each time with the help of drinking cook wine to swallow.

Function: Clear fire, reduce swelling and pain.

(4). Soy oil

Material: Soy oil some.

How to use: drink the soy oil, 9g each time. Once in the morning and once in the evening. In winter, it should be drink after warm little bit.

Function: Cold blood and stop bleeding, swelling and pain.

(5). Chinese Flowering crabapple (Hai Tang hua)

Material: Chinese Flowering crabapple, 250 g.

Preparation: Grind into mud.

Application: Apply on to the affected area. It works to reduce swelling. You can also use this way to treat ulcer (abscess) on skin.

(6). White turnip (Luo pu)

Material: Turnip some amount.

Preparation: Wash the turnip, chop into small pieces, grind into mud.

How to use: Apply the turnip mud on to the affected skin area.

(7). Chinese Chives (Jiu chai)

Material: Chinese chives roots.

How to use: Wash the roots, grind into mud, apply onto the affected bone area. This is used for fractioned fingers and other bones. You can use Chinese chives leaves instead of its root, or you can use both the leaves and the root together.

(8). Eggplant (Qie zi)

Material: Eggplant, one; cook wine, some.

How to use: Dry the eggplant, grind into powder. Drink the powder, 10g each time, twice a day, with the help of cook wine for swallow.

Function: it works to reduce swelling and pain.

(9). Green Chinese onion (Da chong)

Material: Green Chinese onion, some amount.

How to use: Grind the green Chinese onion into mud. Dry fry to warm. Apply the warm mud on to the affected bone area. Replace with warm mud again when the first one turns cold.

(10). Pepper (Hu jiao), green pepper (Hua jiao), Chinese onion (Da chong)

Material: Pepper, green pepper, and Chinese onion, each amount.

How to prepare: Grind all the material into powder or mud. Apply it on to the affected skin area, fold with gauze. Change the powder once a day.

(11). Ginger

Material: Ginger, one. Salt, one teaspoon.

How to prepare: Grind the fresh ginger and the salt together into mud/paste. Apply to the affected area. Fold with gauze. Repeat every day. You can also use the ginger and Chinese chives together.

Function: to reduce swelling and pain.

(12). Vineger

Material: Ginger, one. Salt, one teaspoon.

How to prepare: Grind the fresh ginger and the salt together into mud/paste. Apply to the affected area. Fold with gauze. Repeat every day. You can also use the ginger and Chinese chives together.

Function: to reduce swelling and pain.

(13). Crab (Xie)  for bone fraction

Material: Crab one.

How to use: Wash the crab. Grind into mud (without any cook). Eat the mud 150g (without the bone dregs) with the drink of the cook wine little bit. Apply the dregs on to the broken bone area (not open fraction).

Beside the use of the Folk therapies above, you can also try to use the acupressure technique.

Principle:

(1). Press acupuncture point with your fingers. Do not use sharp material.

(2). Try not to massage the affected area too long, except if the trauma has been there after one day. After massage, cover the affected area with warm towel or similar material. Far infrared lamp is another choice. Rinse in warm water is another. It is better to add fresh ginger pieces in the water.

(3). Press the mirror points of the affected joint, or the opposite point of the joint. For example, if the affected joint is the inside ankle, its mirror point is the inside ankle of the another foot, and its opposite point is the outside ankle of the same foot. This is one of the tips for us as acupuncturist to choose acupuncture point. Try the miracles.

(4). Before the swelling disappears, do not move the affected joint too much. We do not recommend you to start physical exercise too early. This is opposite from what you may have learned before but we feel it reasonable in our clinic experience. Try to know the difference by yourself.