(1) 10g Lucid Ganoderma, 50g barley. Scissor the Lucid Ganoderma into pieces and add water to decoct, take the decoction to boil with mashed barley, season it with right amount of white sugar for eating as breakfast or night snack, once a day.
(2) In the autumn. Middle-aged and aged people can infuse several acanthopanax in the boiling water, take it as a drink, or infuse in the alcohol for drinking. It’s effective to treat neurasthenia.
(3) Pressing the ear with pills: Main acupoints: Heart,central rim, Shenmen. Matching acupoints: Kidney, subcortex, positive interactant, incretion, spleen. Methods: Main acupoints are selected with matching acupoints are selected when there is not effect by selecting main acupoints. Press the pills which are made into the shape of rice by Semen Vaccariae, green bean or borneol on the bilateral sides of the ears for one minute, making the auricle congestive and heat. The patient should press acupoints on the ears for 3 to 5 times a day and press them once for 1 to 2 minute(s) before sleep. Change the pills every other day, 5 times as one course of treatment, the interval between two courses is 4 days.
(4) Cutaneous acupuncture: Main acupints selected: Bilateral cervical vertebra 1-7 and thoracic vertebra 5-12. Matching acupoints selected: Forehead, head, geisoma, Shenmen (HT 7), Zusanli (ST 36), Sanyinjiao (SP6).
Manipulation: Emphasis on knocking acupuncture with skin needle to the main acupoints with gentle or moderate force for two time, acupuncture to the cervical vertebra first, then acupuncture from up to down, then horizontally acupuncture to the thoracic vertebra 5-12 for three needles, regular knocking acupuncture to 0.5-1.5 cm surface of these acupoints for 20-50 times, horizontally acupuncture to the forehead for triplex row with network knocking with the same manipulation. Once a day or every other day, 12 times as a course of treatment, repeat it after one week. Continue to read TCM Treatment Evaluation for Neurasthenia.
