Vascular inflammation is a chronic, persistent, and progressive vascular inflammatory condition. Many suffer from its pain, severely impacting their daily lives. Maintaining optimism is crucial when facing illness. We must actively cooperate with medical treatment while also incorporating dietary therapy into our lives. The results will surely be remarkable...
Jujube and Earthworm Wine:
Soak 20 jujubes, 30g each of earthworms and su mu (Sappan wood), and 15g asarum root in 1500ml white wine for one week. Take 30ml per dose as needed for pain relief. Functions to invigorate blood circulation and alleviate pain. Mainly treats thrombotic occlusive vasculitis with blood stasis in the vessels.
Pheasant with Cinnamon and Safflower Soup:
Boil 250g pheasant meat in water until 80% cooked. Add 10g cinnamon twigs and 15g safflower, then simmer together. Consume the meat and soup as a midday or evening meal. Functions to warm yang, dispel cold, activate blood circulation, and unblock meridians.Indications: Yang deficiency with cold stagnation pattern of thromboangiitis obliterans. Symptoms include cold extremities, pain, soreness, distension, numbness, intermittent claudication, decreased local skin temperature, pale or sallow skin color, weakened or absent pulses in medium/small arteries (Duyang, Taixi, popliteal), pale-purple tongue with white moist coating, and tight-string pulse.
Hawthorn and Brown Sugar Decoction:
Decoct 60g hawthorn berries, 9g chicken gizzard lining, and 9g safflower in water. Strain, add 30g brown sugar. Take 1 dose daily, divided into 2 warm servings. Functions to invigorate blood circulation, relieve pain, tonify qi, and resolve stasis. Indicated for stasis-type thromboangiitis obliterans.
Chuanxiong and Astragalus Porridge:
Boil 10g Chuanxiong and 15g Astragalus in water for 20 minutes, strain, and add 50g glutinous rice to cook into porridge. Functions to tonify qi, activate blood circulation, regulate qi, and relieve pain.Indications: Thrombotic occlusive vasculitis with blood stasis in collaterals. Symptoms include coldness, soreness, distension, and numbness in the affected limb; intermittent claudication worsening with activity; possible persistent pain intensifying at night; dark red, purplish red, or cyanotic skin color on the affected limb; absent dorsalis pedis pulse; cyanotic tongue with ecchymoses or petechiae; deep and fine or deep and涩 pulse.
Salvia Wine:
Infuse 30g Salvia miltiorrhiza in 500ml white liquor for 7 days. Take 20–30ml per dose, 2–3 times daily. Functions to invigorate blood circulation, remove stasis, and cool blood. Indicated for stasis-heat pattern thrombotic occlusive vasculitis; presenting with aching distension in affected limb,Numbness, burning pain worsened by heat and relieved by cold, intensifying at night, with skin redness and disappearance of dorsalis pedis artery pulse. Tongue red or dark red with yellow coating; pulse deep and涩 or fine and涩. Pangolin and Musk Antiseptic Ointment provides the aforementioned effects.
Black-Bone Chicken Soup:
Simmer 1 black-bone chicken until tender. Consume meat and broth in appropriate amounts. Take once daily in the morning and evening, completing the course within 2–3 days. May be repeated with additional chickens. Functions to tonify liver and kidney, replenish qi, and nourish blood. Indicated for vasculitis in qi and blood deficiency-type constitution with physical weakness.
Double-Nourishing Paste:
30g each of Codonopsis, Chinese Yam, Longan Meat, Astragalus, and Poria; 20g each of Licorice, Atractylodes, and Goji Berries;Cornus officinalis, Angelica sinensis 15g each, Jujube 10 pieces. Decoct twice with water, combine extracts, heat to concentrate, add 100ml honey to form paste. Take 20ml per dose, 3 times daily. Functions: Tonifies qi and nourishes blood, strengthens spleen and stomach. Indications: Thrombotic occlusive vasculitis due to qi and blood deficiency.
Maodongqing Decoction:
Remove hair from 1 pig's trotter, wash thoroughly. Simmer with 100g Maodongqing in 3 liters of water over low heat until reduced to 1 liter. Divide into 5 portions and drink while hot. Take twice daily. Functions to clear heat, detoxify, activate blood circulation, and unblock vessels. Indicated for thrombotic occlusive vasculitis with stasis-heat pattern.