Overcome Alzheimer's Disease

Brain is the most important human tissue which controls the sensation, movement, thinking and life functions of people.Alzheimer's disease is a primary degenerative disease of the central nervous system. It has a slow onset and slow progress. Its course is 5 to 10 years. It is characterized by comprehensively progressive Alzheimer's disease.Its main manifestation is disorder in higher nervous activities such as memory, speech, judgment, cognition, thinking, behavior, personality and emotion. Later, it is often accompanied by aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, agraphia, alexia and so on.In Hong Kong, 1 out of every 10 old people over 65 years old suffers from Alzheimer's disease. This book introduces the etiology and pathology of Alzheimer's disease in detail, highlights the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, focuses on the cognition and nursing of traditional Chinese medicine for Alzheimer's disease.According to theory of traditional Chinese medicine, senility, internal injury caused by excess of seven emotions and other diseases lead to Alzheimer's disease.According to the theory and practice of traditional Chinese medicine, the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease is deficiency in origin and excess in superficiality.Deficiency in origin is mainly due to deficiency of kidney essence and insufficiency of vital energy and blood; excess in superficiality is mainly manifested as turbid sputum blocking aperture, stagnation in vital energy and blood stasis.Among them, insufficiency of vital energy and blood is the cause of turbid sputum and blood stasis which lead to disorder of viscera function and accelerate the process of deficiency of vital energy and blood, so that deficiency in origin and excess in superficiality affect each other, transform into each other and form a vicious circle. Therefore, on the basis of treatment based on syndrome differentiation, this book puts forward specific methods of treatment of traditional Chinese medicine from aspects such as internal treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, massage and medicated diet. It combines Western medicine and means, pays attention to patients' daily nursing, answers questions on disease, shares personal experience, and provides disease assessment scales and relevant information of the disease in Hong Kong.