What are the treatments for silicosis?

Among the many component diseases, common lung disease is a lung function disease caused by patients inhaling large amounts of various dusts for a long time. It can lead to silicosis and even lung failure. It is usually accompanied by difficulty breathing, asthma, and even affects the normal respiratory system. Friends who often suffer from silicosis can usually be treated with some reasonable and appropriate methods, and the disease can recover after being effectively treated and controlled.

Comprehensive treatment

In the drug treatment of silicosis, tetrandrine is often used. This is a dibenzylisoquinoline drug extracted from the Chinese medicinal plant Menispermum family. It can reduce the amount of collagen synthesis in silicosis and has a good effect on acute silicosis. Patients can improve their clinical symptoms by taking 200 mg to 300 mg orally daily.

The side effects of this drug include loss of appetite, increased transaminase, and slow heart rate. It is also reported that taking this drug together with Liuwei Dihuang Pills for 6 days a week for two months can significantly improve cough, sputum, chest pain and dyspnea in patients with silicosis, and reduce the risk of colds and bronchial and lung infections by 52.94%.

Silicosis is often manifested by phlegm and blood stasis, so the principle of diet therapy is to resolve phlegm and soften hard masses. Seaweed, kelp, coix seed, etc. can be selected and cooked with water. In addition to phlegm and blood stasis, patients often suffer from Qi and Yin deficiency, which manifests as coughing, sputum, hoarseness, etc. You can choose to eat lily, pear, lotus root, monk fruit, loquat, etc. to nourish the lungs and replenish yin. In the late stage of silicosis, the patient is obviously weak and it is advisable to replenish the deficiency and strengthen the body. They can eat pig lungs stewed with lily and Codonopsis, chicken stewed with Astragalus, longan and ginseng honey paste, etc.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment

The superposition of magnetic medicine to regulate immunity is based on the theory of syndrome differentiation and treatment. It is not a single Chinese medicine treatment. According to the physical characteristics and symptom differences of each patient, different acupoints and prescriptions are selected according to the individual and syndrome, and different treatment plans are formulated. It is mainly treated by combining various methods such as acupuncture, cupping, fumigation, and Chinese medicine plasters.