EUROMEDICA  Hanover 6-7  Juni 2008	Advanced methods of diagnosis, treatment and prophylactics
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow

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Objective. The objective is to define the approach to the treatment of joint diseases from the point of view of Oriental medicine.

Methods: clinical observation of the patients, diagnostics using the methods of traditional Chinese medicine, Korean Sutczi-Chimsur therapy, methods of functional diagnostics and laboratory methods.

Results: A new approach to diagnostics, prophylaxis and treatment of articulation diseases from the point of view of Oriental medicine was created.

Articulation diseases are one of the most common human illnesses. The causes of most of them are still not found out. At present scientists associate the incidence of the disease with sex, age, environment, metabolism, immunity factor and the way of life of the patient. Unfortunately the conventional treatment is followed by side effects and mostly causes only temporary improvement leaving the problem unsolved for many years.

We treated a significant amount of patients with various joint diseases of inflammational and infectional genesis and articulation diseases associated with metabolic processes – arthritis, gout etc.

In Chinese medicine arthritis and other joint diseases are defined as stagnation condition; the symptoms are: location and intensity of pain, extent of inflammation, size of the edema and extent of the organ dysfunction.

There are inner (organism condition) and outer (environment) factors which cause the joint diseases.

Outer predisposing factors:

• Windy weather;
• Cold and high humidity which cause edema;
• stagnation;
• numbness and pain in joints and surrounding tissues.

Inner causes:

• stress;
• anxiety;
• depressions and other factors which weaken immunity and vitality.

This leads to a disorder of regeneration processes and metabolism in osseous tissue, tendon and cartilaginous tissues. Our methods are based on studying the intensity of the pain syndrome by the duct of the channels around the joints. Around each big joint from each side there are six channels. For example, around the hands joints there are lungs, colon, heart, small intestine, pericardium and three body parts channels. Around the feet articulations there are spleen, pancreas, stomach, kidneys, urinary bladder, liver and gall bladder channels.

All the channels surround the join and pain mostly begins in the location of the channel.

Our treatment takes into consideration the cause and pathogenesis of the joints and channels duct, determines Ying or Yang type by the syndromes (outer-inner, heat-cold, excess-shortage) and the main organism syndromes. The found pathology determines the treatment.

For example, if the pain in the knee joint spreads in the outer surface of the leg we can assume that the cause is in the stomach channel, if it spreads in the inner side – spleen and pancreas channel. It goes the same regarding other joints.

It often happens that the patient does not feel pain in an organ or system and the pain in the legs joints can signify a disorder in the stomach channel system. It combines with one of the Hering’s laws, which states that in order to cure the organism tries to bring the

pain to the surface, away from the important organs to the less important ones, from the stomach to the bones and joints.

The important role in treatment of such syndromes play acupuncture, Korean Sutczi-Chimsur therapy, homoeopathy, herbal medicine and Ayurvedic treatment. In severe cases correction with conventional medications is recommended.

Only combination of all treatment and prevention methods can lead to positive results.

• Conclusion: for treatment joint diseases it is necessary to account the channels duct irrespective of etiology and pathogenesis. Knowing only the location of pain and the channels duct we can detect the organ or system pathology and indicate the treatment.