What causes knee bone spurs?

The feeling of bone spurs in the knee joint is very obvious. If not treated or relieved in time, the pain will continue and intensify, affecting the patient's normal life. There are several reasons for knee bone spurs, such as cold blockage, heat accumulation, qi and blood deficiency, etc. The knee joint is an important bone link, so everyone should pay attention to the symptoms of knee joint pain.

(1) Cold blockage

Lying on the road and catching a cold or being soaked in water can cause the cold and dampness to stay and penetrate deep into the knees, blocking Qi and blood flow and causing knee pain. For example, in Zhang's Medical Encyclopedia: "Due to lying on wet ground, the water flowed into the feet and knees, causing numbness, weakness and severe pain."

Symptoms: Severe knee swelling and pain, difficulty walking, or feeling of heaviness and sluggishness, aggravated on rainy days, cold body and limbs, bluish face, white and slippery tongue coating, and deep and tight or slow pulse.

Treatment method: Dispel cold and dampness, dispel wind and relieve pain.

(II) Dampness and heat accumulation

Affected by rheumatism, it becomes heat due to depression, or invaded by dampness and heat, which stay in the meridians and gather in the knees, causing swelling and pain. For example, in "Xizhuo of the Origin and Development of Miscellaneous Diseases": "If the disease occurs on the feet and knees, with swelling at first and then ulceration, it is called beriberi. It is caused by kidney deficiency and rheumatism, which attacks the feet and the soles of the feet."

Symptoms: Swelling and pain in the knee, local redness, a feeling of heat when touched, the knee can be bent but not extended, yellow and red urine, yellow and greasy tongue coating, and a slippery and rapid or soft and rapid pulse.

Treatment method: clear away heat, drain away dampness, relieve pain.

(III) Deficiency of Qi and Blood

The spleen and stomach are weak, the source of Qi and blood is insufficient, or the body is weak after illness, after pregnancy, childbirth and menstruation, the Qi and blood are not restored, the tendons and veins in the knees are not nourished, and pain occurs. As stated in Zhang's Medical Encyclopedia, "Women's gout knee syndrome is caused by irregular pregnancy, delivery and menstruation... and external infection."

Symptoms: persistent knee pain, weakness in the limbs, dull complexion, dizziness and palpitations, pale red tongue with a thin white coating, and a deep or weak pulse.

Treatment method: tonify Qi and relieve blood, warm the meridians and relieve pain.