Blood stasis accumulated in brain cleared, toe spasm and cramps cured
Premature aging / Amnesia / Brain atrophy, Medical Case
There was a man who suffered from a frequent pain in his left big toe and second toe. Western doctors suggested a surgery to solve the problem. After taking painkillers, he got better and didn’t bother anymore. Soon after that, they became numb again. He came to visit me in 2002. He was sixty-nine years old when he was first diagnosed. His face was ruddy and he told me he had done a spine CT Scan. It showed bone hyperplasia in his fourth lumbar vertebra which was pressing his spinal nerves, affecting his left foot. When he slept at night, the two toes cramped and had upward spasm. In the morning, his hands and fingers were swollen and his shoulder and back muscles were tense. He had slipped and fell before.
Patient recalled that 40 years ago, he was hit in the back by a mast on a ship and fainted. I thought his brain was hit, causing a concussion and minor bleeding, hence the formation of blood stasis. Since he had slipped and fell before, it could be related to a minor stroke or the burst of microfilament blood vessels, resulting in stasis in his brain causing neuralgia, with problem appearing in his toes. I conducted a test on him, asking him to lower and raise his head. His vision then became clear, with the brightness greatly increased. The numbness in his toes was relieved and his whole body was more relaxed. This proved that numbness in his toes was caused by a brain blockage by stasis, which led to brain cell ischemia and nerve compression in the related area, and not by the seemingly bone spurs in the fourth lumbar vertebra pressing his nerves.
After analyzing the multiple problems, I believed the brain concussion caused a disorder in his nervous system, leading to epilepsy-like symptoms, causing the toes to cramp upwards. In addition, his arm muscles often twitched. It was due to blockage in his brain. Signals sent were obstructed and bounced back and forth, sending multiple false signals, causing twitching in his hands and feet. The patient had sought massage from other Chinese medicine practitioners, which only cured the symptoms instead of the root cause. I thought the treatment should first strengthen his liver and kidney functions. After strengthening his heart, medicine and blood supply to the brain should be increased to dissolve the stasis and open up the blockage. All problems would be solved accordingly. The urine to be brought in next visit would prove whether my statement was correct.
Two left toes twitched less
After taking the first three doses of the medicine, good signs had appeared immediately. When the patient woke up in the morning, his left arm was less swollen and less difficult to be flexed and extended compared with before. The numbness in his fingers was also relieved. His joint pain had become much better and the twitching of his two left toes had reduced, becoming less numb and a bit more relaxed. The pain in his waist had completely subsided and when he walked, he felt brisker. Urination became less frequent and strong, with larger volumes and no urine dripping. His defecation was smooth. Nocturnal penile tumescence, which had not been experienced for a long time, reappeared. His penis was enlarged and his scrotum became firm. With the many improvements, patient was overjoyed. Some of the urine samples were blood red, indicating stagnant blood in his liver and accumulated blood stasis in his heart and brain were being brought out. These proved that the patient’s brain was indeed blocked by lots of blood stasis.
In the second follow-up visit, his condition had improved a lot. He slept very well, and the numbness in his fingers had mostly subsided except for the fingertips. His left toes no longer cramped, and his penis was firm during nocturnal penile tumescence. However, the back of his right knee and the inside of his right sole had a burning sensation. Only a slight touch would already feel burnt and excruciating.
In the previous few weeks, the main problem still lay on his two left toes, which sometimes cramped. The burning sensation in the back of his right knee and the inside of his right sole remained. His calf muscles were tense and his left arm sometimes twitched, but the condition became better than before. Despite patient came to me to treat his twitching, my treatment also strengthened his kidneys, resulting in the “revival” of his penis, which had not happened for the previous ten years. At the bottom of the bottles containing his recent urine, there were many brown urate crystals, which were calcium oxalate. It indicated that the medicine was dissolving his kidney stones, which were discharged along with his urine.
At the sixth follow-up visit, I found that his face was rosy and shiny. His left brow bone had an abrasion due to a fall. He walked briskly and with ease. His toes no longer twitched and the burning sensation in the back of his right knee and the inside of his right sole completely disappeared. In addition, the patient gradually regained sexual interest and had longer duration of sex. I suggested that he have sex once every two weeks to remove the dirt accumulated in his prostate and strengthen its contraction ability.
Periodontal disease and teeth extraction required
After a while, the patient suffered from periodontal disease with an unbearable pain. I taught him to drink dried oyster water to relieve the pain. The situation had gradually improved, but his teeth continued to bleed. Finally, three teeth had to be extracted. With the redness and swelling in his gums gradually subsiding, the situation became better. Since most Chinese medicine he had taken recently aimed to remove the heat and help reduce inflammation, nocturnal penile tumescence no longer appeared every day. It gradually came back not until the 11th follow-up visit, but compared with before, the condition was only 70% recovered. The cramps in his toes recurred occasionally but were much milder. His complexion was fair, rosy and shiny and his palms were warm.
The patient was infected with a skin disease after going to the sauna and had to be injected with antibiotics. Although the redness and swelling subsided, the antibiotics had damaged his liver, kidneys and heart. His toe cramps recurred and his sexual function deteriorated. The destructive effect of antibiotics could be imagined. At the fourteenth follow-up visit, the patient happily told me that his skin disease was cured, while nocturnal penile tumescence also reappeared with his penis restoring firmness.
Improvements were seen one after another. The colour of the patient’s urine began to become clear with no urate crystals found. In other words, his kidney stones were beginning to be cleared, meaning another leap forward to recovery. At the seventeenth follow-up visit, his head felt bloated after taking a dose of medicine. His urine was very dark in colour and many liver cells were found at the bottom of one of his urine samples. The patient reported his sexual status from time to time. He said that he had sex once a week. His condition was good and his penis firm. I asked him how much younger he felt his condition was. He said that his current condition was even better than any time before. He now had sex for about 15 minutes every time, incomparable with the past when he had premature ejaculation.
Before the 20th follow-up visit, the patient had a blood test, which showed a very high blood glucose level, confirming that he had diabetes. He began feeling dryness in his mouth, tiredness and listlessness, and he lost a lot of weight. A new problem arose before the old was solved. I treated his diabetes first. After taking medicine, he measured his fasting blood glucose, but the figure remained high. Two days later, he checked that again and the figure had returned to normal. The patient did not take Western medicine. He paid special attention to his diet to avoid elevated blood glucose level. The patient might actually be at the early stage of diabetes. Only after taking one dose of medicine, the disease had not recurred and his blood glucose level had remained stable.
At the 23rd follow-up visit, in addition to hepatocyte sediments, there were many small black particles (urate crystals) and white debris (cholesterol sediments) in his urine. There was blood colour in several bottles of urine. Until the following appointment, his best blood glucose level recorded was four hours after breakfast. I pointed out that this was because his digestive system had not completely decomposed blood glucose into glycogen, which would take a longer time. I asked him not to worry about it too much. The numbness in his hands and feet had been gradually reducing. His toe cramps had not recurred and he felt relatively tired.
Pain travelled in his body, sometimes in the left and sometimes the right
At the 28th follow-up visit, the patient told me that he wanted to stop taking medicine for a while and asked for my comment. I thought that the patient was approaching the recovery stage but had not fully recovered. Stopping medicine would only affect his conditions. Only when the residual stasis in his brain had been brought out could the disease be cured at the root. Of course, I understand patients’ mentality very well. Usually, when patients’ conditions have improved to a certain degree, they would stop taking medicine immediately without letting me know and suddenly disappear without a trace. Unless the conditions deteriorate again that they will come back for medical treatment. However, it is necessary to know that during the process of treatment, there will be ups and downs. So after the conditions have improved, a consolidation period is required to cure the disease once and for all. This patient’s attitude was relatively good as he consulted my professional opinion before deciding whether to continue the treatment. Fortunately, he listened to my advice and continued the treatment.
At the 29th follow-up visit, he brought in a blood test report. His blood glucose level reached 7.8, slightly higher than normal. However, self-conducted test paper examinations during the previous few weeks showed everything was normal. His diabetes should have recovered with his conditions returning to normal.
In the middle of the treatment, the patient had pain in his shoulder, arm and kidney, all on the right side of his body. I explained that this indicated his right brain was discharging stasis, with the pain caused by the compression of corresponding cranial nerves. After the stasis blockage was cleared, the pain would disappear.
At the thirty-fifth follow-up visit, cramps in his left toes had rarely occurred, but the pain had changed to his right fingers and elbow. Based on my observation, since there were still urate crystals discharged into his urine, I believed that these uric acids travelled to different parts of his body through the blood, accumulated in his joints, pressing his nerves, causing the pain. As long as the uric acid and stasis were removed, the problem would disappear. As expected, two weeks later, the pain in his right arm had eased a lot. Then there was a pain in his inner left elbow. As I said, the pain would move along with the blood stasis and its location would keep changing. By the 37th follow-up visit, the pain in his right arm had basically disappeared, but his left toes problem seemed to have recurred with slight cramps reappearing. Therefore, to treat this kind of disease that was caused by the brain, we must be patient as the conditions would progress with ups and downs.
Later, the patient’s two left toes still felt slightly cramp, but it was not as severe as before. As for his right arm and right foot, there was no more problem at all. Though he was already an old man in his 70s, his sexual performance had unexpectedly returned to the state when he was young. He felt very satisfied with my treatment. He again expressed that he wanted to stop the treatment. Although I thought the blood stasis in his brain had not been completely cleared and the cramps might recur, but he had made up his mind, so I did not say more. The patient was first diagnosed on 31 August 2002 and the treatment ended on 15 October 2003. He was treated for one year and two months with 60 visits, and the results were remarkable.
This article was written by Dr. Sik-Kee Au
July 11, 2017
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Medical case number: 020831