I have treated such patients. This is a male patient from Hebei, who is only in his fifties. He used to be a soldier, and his health is still good. Later, he smoked and drank, and his health gradually failed. Until there was a serious heart problem, the doctor asked him to have a heart stent operation, but he still didn't want to, so he found some Chinese medicine treatments, took medicine and massaged moxibustion, but there was no obvious effect. In this case, stent surgery was performed. After putting in two stents and finishing the stent operation, I thought that after these symptoms were eliminated, I could go to sleep and live a good life. As a result, I didn't expect another problem to appear. What's the problem?
Sitting in bed all night every night, I always feel depressed and uncomfortable in the precordial area. I am always afraid that this scaffold will fall down, so I will go to sleep at night. I can't see the rising sun tomorrow, and the burden in my heart is getting heavier and heavier. I always feel flustered and short of breath, and there is even a phenomenon called near-death feeling. I'm particularly worried and scared. After going to the hospital for examination, I found nothing serious, but I always felt uncomfortable. So this time he came to me for treatment.
When he first came to me, I took his pulse, looked at his tongue coating and checked his physical condition. I thought his heart surgery was a success, but now there is no obvious stagnation. Then why does he have such symptoms, which are more serious and even have the feeling of dying? I think this is a problem that many patients may have after heart stent implantation, which is called autonomic nervous disorder, or we can call it autonomic nervous disorder.
In fact, there will be a cluster of autonomic nerves around our heart and around our main blood vessels, which is called cardiac plexus. When we finish the operation, the permeability of blood vessels has changed, which will also cause this disorder of autonomic nervous system to a certain extent. People with this ability to adjust will naturally adjust. However, many friends may have poor self-regulation ability, which eventually leads to some abnormalities in the autonomic nervous system, such as some changes in heart rate, some changes in blood pressure, sweating, sleep disorders, emotional abnormalities and so on. Some people are depressed and even anxious, and this friend is actually like this.
So when I first came, I gave him acupuncture treatment, which is a very professional treatment in our acupuncture. When our heart function changes, in fact, some muscle strength around your body will naturally compensate and there will be some changes. After we help you change this mechanical relationship, your internal organs will naturally return to normal. At the same time, we have some key parts to stimulate his autonomic nervous system, such as Neiguan point. In fact, it has a sense of dying for this autonomic nervous system disorder in our cardiac plexus, that is, the change of heart rate. This specific performance, including excessive worry, is always
However, we use acupuncture. Generally, we can use the intradermal needling method, and even you can rub your thumb here, which can also play an appropriate role. This is a way to stimulate. Another kind of stimulation is also important. We are at a specific point on his back, called plaster point. We also talked about it specifically. Since the idiom "terminally ill" is widely known, it shows that this position is crucial, but it is not easy to stimulate. The plaster point is sunken under the spinous process of our fourth thoracic vertebra, and it is three inches sideways, which is actually the inner edge of the scapula. When we are in a normal upright position, our two shoulder blades block the position of the plaster point. Then if we do such an action, we hold our elbows and touch our shoulders with our hands. At this time, our two shoulder blades will unfold and the plaster spots will be exposed. Then below the point is the position of rhomboid muscle. Many flustered friends are excessively thin, so this rhomboid muscle can be thinner, which is very prone to symptoms. Last time, we also mentioned the training method of rhomboid muscle for your reference.
We apply moxibustion in this position, and feel very comfortable when moxibustion. There is heat flow in the chest. The primitive state of anxiety, retreat and tension is like the feeling that there is snow on the ground in early spring and the sun shines on it and slowly melts. So later, he described it as really comfortable after moxibustion, and his whole body pores were opened, and his mood would become very happy. Therefore, moxibustion at this plaster point is especially suitable for patients after cardiac stent implantation. In this area of your scapula, be sure to support your shoulders with your elbows, or you can find a slightly narrower bed and put your hands on both sides of the bed. At this time, your scapula is also unfolded, and then you can take the plaster point on the inner edge of the scapula for moxibustion. Generally speaking, it only takes us about half an hour, and I think this method is enough to relieve the pain by combining the point rubbing at Neiguan or shallow needling at Neiguan.
If your symptoms have not been relieved, remember that we once taught you a method of beating your ears in the external auditory canal, which is also a stimulation of vagus nerve to balance the excessive abnormality of cardiac plexus, anxiety, irritability and palpitation caused by this autonomic nervous system disorder, as well as the change of blood pressure and this abnormal sweating. In fact, the density of treatment is not very large, and it will be maintained once or twice a week, but we will continue for a long time, because the regulation of this autonomic nervous system is not as normal as everyone thinks, and we will be normal immediately after giving a stimulus. We often say that the threshold range of self-regulation is narrowed, which is beyond your own adjustment range, so it needs long-term adjustment to make it stable for a long time, but it is not necessarily that the number of treatments we give it is particularly intensive and much. Everyone should want to know and pay attention to this.
At the same time, we also remind these friends who have undergone heart stent surgery that after this operation, you should actually do some exercise. You should do some exercise instead of doing nothing, but when you can do this kind of exercise, you should be careful. It is best to do some monitoring under medical monitoring, that is, the doctor will record some key values for you, and then give some exercise indicators, so that the exercise effect and risks are there.