Treatment of Myasthenia Gravis Eating Problems

Hebei Yiling Hospital Research Report——Resolving Eating Problems of Myasthenia Gravis Patients by Regulating Qi Function and Harmonizing Stomach for Descending Adverse Qi

Choking and cough during eating, difficulty in swallowing and aphagosis are one of the medulla symptoms in patients with myasthenia gravis, which seriously affect the patient's quality of life and even endanger their lives. Because there is no effective treatment method, it is also recognized as one of medical problems in the world at present. To our delight, recently good news is coming from Hebei Yiling Hospital of key specialty of National Administration of traditional Chinese Medicine—the department of myasthenia gravis has brought about the exciting news. The department has already made breakthrough of difficulties in choking and cough during eating and swallowing by adopting the unique characteristics Treatment of myasthenia gravis of traditional Chinese medicine by regulating Qi function and harmonizing stomach for descending adverse Qi to help many patients with myasthenia gravis regained normal swallowing function.

Myasthenia gravis is a chronic disease that is caused by muscle weakness contraction due to the conductive obstruction of neurotransmitter in neuromuscular junction of patients. Patients can suddenly have difficulty in swallowing, drinking with choking and cough and eating and severe patients may be dead due to suffocation. If severe patients have not been cured for a long time, they may have organs failure with concurrent muscular dystrophy. Currently clinical treatment adopts drugs such as gamma globulin, hormones and immunosuppressive agents etc. Although it has a variety of drugs, these western medicines have serious side effects to functions liver and kidney and bone marrow. Still conditions of a many patients cannot be effectively controlled.

Expert group of the department of myasthenia gravis in Hebei Yiling Hospital have listed the disease as a key research project and carried out special study by digging the medicine treasure house of traditional Chinese Medical Sciences and looking for answers. The study shows that patients with myasthenia gravis belong to paralysis in traditional Chinese medicine and its morbidity is caused by Qi deficiency, Qi function dysfunction and inverse chaos. The function of the spleen and stomach has a close relation with eating. Qi deficiency and inverse chaos of Qi will lead to the spleen-qi falling to rise and further patients may have symptoms of difficulties in choking and cough in diet and difficulty in swallowing. According to this understanding, the expert group screen precious traditional Chinese herbal medicines of reinforce vital energy into the spleen and stomach meridian and formulate therapy of traditional Chinese medicine of regulating Qi function and harmonizing stomach for descending adverse Qi through the regulation of Qi function of the spleen and stomach to make QI lift and descend and come in and go out in order maintain the normal swallowing function in body, and recover normal eating ability of patients.

It is reported that the related traditional Chinese medicine preparation studied and developed by the department has been listed in the Shijiazhuang medical insurance pharmaceutical formulary list. Due to successfully crack the world-recognized medical problem of patients with myasthenia gravis patients who cannot eat and find effective therapy for patients to eat, the research carried out by them has been identified as reaching the international advanced level by experts and it has been rewarded with scientific and technological progress award by China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and provincial and municipal scientific and technological progress award.