On *Stroke* at Late Autumn and Early Winter
As autumn turns to winter — cool to cold — hypertension and cerebrovascular accidents enter peak season. Looking at the illness: its cause is in the neck; its effect, in the head. Signs: blood-pressure irregularity, migraine, facial paralysis, eye unable to open, mouth-and-eye askew, severe functional impairment of same-side upper and lower limbs. Onset sudden; severe cases life-threatening; treatment long; prognosis poor.
From long clinical work: this kind of trouble belongs to cervical soft-tissue functioning out of normal — compressing or affecting blood vessels and nerves passing to the head. The brain operates long under reduced oxygen and energy supply, leading to changes in brain tissue and normal function of mouth, eye, ear, nose. The abnormal tissue or organ shows altered physiological elasticity; the area's qi-blood flow is unbalanced; its temperature noticeably lower than normal; it is highly sensitive to outer cold-and-hot change. When weather turns from cool to cold, the abnormal area is struck by cold-evil and an attack easily comes on.
In this kind of trouble, prevention and early treatment are precious. The head, wrapped in the skull, is hard to injure without strong outside force. The neck is the only passage for vessels and nerves to the head; so attending to neck muscle and ligament function — not letting it slip — safeguards the head's energy supply and effectively prevents bad change in head tissue and function.
Early treatment — at first feeling of dizziness, headache, eye-twitch, facial spasm or numbness, drool, gait imbalance — seek treatment in the shortest time; this can effectively slow or stop the worsening.
TCM tuina, by hand techniques on relevant abnormal-function areas, effectively changes the area's imbalanced qi-blood flow and the body's functional abnormality — with quick effect, low pain, no side effects. We hope it brings you health.