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Through the traditional Chinese medicine inheritance platform system, with the help of medical records, Ye Tianshi and Wu Jutong's medication characteristics for summer heat sickness were analyzed, the laws of the two people's medication were summarized, and the similarities and differences between the two were explored to explore the relationship. As a result, it was found that both of them recognized the relationship between summer heat and wetness, and Wu Jutong believed that "wind" was also an important pathogenic factor. Both of the patients were treated with cold medicine and warm medicine. They used mostly bitter, sweet, pungent taste and lungs, spleen, stomach, and heart meridian are the main components; two are commonly used Armeniacae Semen Amarum, Talcum, Rehmanniae Radix, Ophiopogonis Radix, Pinelliae Rhizoma and other drugs, Ye Tianshi use Scrophulariae Radix, Tetrapanacis Medulla, Coicis Semen and other drugs more, Wu Jutong use Gypsum Fibrosum, Sojae Semen Praeparatum, Menthae Haplocalycis Herba and other drugs more; at the same time, a combination of two high-frequency medicines used by two people has been excavated, and a new prescription has been deduced to provide a reference for further understanding and treatment of summer diseases.
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Objective To investigate the therapeutic effect of point Shixuan(Ex-UE11) bloodletting on blood viscosity, and pain and numbness in patients with cervical spondylotic radiculopathy. Method One hundred patients with cervical spondylotic radiculopathy were randomized to treatment and control groups. Both groups received conventional acupuncture at Huatuo jiaji(Ex-B2) points. The treatment group received bloodletting therapy in addition. Pain and numbness severity and blood viscosity were recorded before and after treatment. The data were analyzed statistically. Result The pain and numbness, and blood viscosity were improved in both groups of patients with cervical spondylotic radiculopathy, but there were statistically significant differences between the two groups (P<0.01). Conclusion Bloodletting therapy can improve not only the pain and numbness but also blood viscosity in cervical spondylotic radiculopathy. There is a certain correlation between the two.