What is purpura and is it easy to cure?

When it comes to purpura, everyone should be familiar with it. Purpura is a skin disease, but it is more difficult to cure than general skin diseases, and the symptoms are more severe when it occurs. When purpura occurs, the patient's skin will bleed and then bruises will form. Children are more likely to suffer from purpura, and if you suffer from purpura, you must go to the hospital for treatment. So, what exactly is purpura?

1. What is purpura

Purpura is a disease name in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Also known as purpura, it is characterized by blood overflowing under the skin and mucous membranes, resulting in the appearance of petechiae and ecchymoses that do not fade when pressed. It is one of the common hemorrhagic diseases in children. It is often accompanied by nosebleeds, bleeding from the teeth, and even vomiting blood, blood in the stool, and blood in the urine. This disease belongs to the category of blood syndrome. The diseases and syndromes recorded in ancient Chinese medical books such as "grape plague", "muscle bleeding" and "spot poison" have similarities with this disease. This disease includes allergic purpura and thrombocytopenic purpura in Western medicine. The age of onset of Henoch-Schönlein purpura is mostly 3-14 years old, especially school-age children, more common in males than in females, and more common in spring. The age of onset of thrombocytopenic purpura is mostly 2-5 years old, with no difference in the incidence between boys and girls. The mortality rate is about 1%, and the main cause of death is intracranial hemorrhage.

Causes

Purpura is mainly a disease in the blood and can be divided into deficiency and excess. The external cause is the exogenous wind-heat evil, which brings dampness, heat and poison into the blood on the skin surface, forcing the blood to flow abnormally and overflow into the skin pores, mainly manifesting as a positive symptom. The internal cause is insufficient qi and blood in the heart and spleen, deficiency of kidney yin, ascending of virtual fire, and failure of blood to return to the meridians, with deficiency syndrome being the main symptom.

symptom

The disease usually develops rapidly, with bleeding as its main symptom. In addition to purpura on the skin and mucous membranes, it is often accompanied by epistaxis, bleeding from the teeth, hematemesis, blood in the stool, and hematuria. Severe bleeding may cause symptoms of blood deficiency such as pale complexion, or even collapse.

3. Acupuncture therapy

1. Main acupoints: Quchi and Zusanli. Preparatory acupoints: Hegu and Xuehai. First pierce the main point. If the effect is not good, pierce the supplementary points. If there is abdominal pain, add puncture Sanyinjiao, Taichong and Neiguan. Used for allergic purpura.

2. Select the acupoints Baliao and Yaoyangguan. Moxibustion with moxa sticks and ginger. Moxibustion each acupoint for 45 minutes, once a day. Used for syndrome of qi failing to retain blood.

3. First, insert the needle into the diaphragm point and the spleen point at a 45° angle toward the spine. Insert the needle quickly, twist and lift it, and retain the needle for 5 minutes after getting qi. Then, insert the needle into the Xuehai point and the Sanyinjiao point, and retain the needle for 30 minutes after getting qi. Once a day, half a month as a course of treatment. It is used for syndrome of qi failing to retain blood and syndrome of yin deficiency and fire inflammation.