The "swinging" we often talk about is a colloquial term for malaria. Childhood malaria is a very serious infectious disease that causes serious harm to the healthy growth of children. Can the Chinese medicine "Di Ku Niu" treat childhood malaria?
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Can Di Ku Niu treat childhood malaria?
No, children cannot drink alcohol to take it.
The method of treating malaria with Di Ku Niu is as follows: take eleven pieces of Di Ku Niu, mix it with alcohol, and take it half an hour before the onset of malaria. For chronic malaria, it needs to be taken for a week.
The application of Di Ku Niu in traditional Chinese medicine:
1. Treatment of malaria: take eleven pieces of Di Ku Niu, mix it with alcohol, and take it half an hour before the onset of malaria. For chronic malaria, it needs to be taken for a week.
2. Treatment of childhood malaria: take seven pieces of Di Ku Niu, fry it until fragrant, and swallow it with boiled water.
3. Treatment of carbuncle: take seven pieces of Di Ku Niu, crush six of them and apply it to the carbuncle, and put the remaining one on the top of the carbuncle without crushing it, and wrap it with cloth. (The prescription below is from "Secret Prescription of Guizhou Province Traditional Chinese Medicine")
4. Treatment of lymphadenitis: mix Sha Gu Niu with borax and a little borneol, crush it and apply it to the ulcer, and cover it with plaster. ("Essential Information on Medicinal Properties of Herbs")
5. Treatment of bamboo and wood thorns and iron sand embedded in the flesh: apply Di Ku Niu with pumpkin pulp to the affected area. ("Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Journal")
Clinical manifestations of childhood malaria
1. Incubation period: the incubation period is 10-12 days for tertian malaria, 14-25 days for quartan malaria, and 9-16 days for malignant malaria. In the later stage of the incubation period, there may be mild fever, fatigue, and muscle and back pain as prodromal symptoms.
2. Fever cycle: tertian and oval malaria have a fever every other day, quartan malaria has a fever every 2 days, and the fever pattern of malignant malaria is irregular or remittent. The younger the child, the more atypical the symptoms of childhood malaria are, and they become similar to adult malaria after the age of 5-6.
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3. Acute attacks of malaria in infants and young children are atypical, with only cold limbs, pale complexion, and cyanosis of the lips during the cold stage. Even during the fever stage, the limbs are still cold. Vomiting and diarrhea are often accompanied. Sweating is rarely seen during the defervescence stage. Anemia develops rapidly, and splenomegaly is obvious. However, it can recover quickly with treatment.
4. Congenital malaria: If the mother is infected with malaria before giving birth, the newborn will develop the disease within 5-6 days after birth, and the same malaria parasite as the mother can be found in the blood. The mortality rate is high.
Precautions for childhood malaria
Due to the frequent occurrence of seizures and coma in malaria, especially when severe malaria causes continuous high fever and changes in brain disease, if the condition is not well controlled, it will have a certain impact on the intellectual development of children, so active prevention is necessary.
To treat malaria, it is necessary to strengthen environmental hygiene management, eliminate mosquitoes, and prevent transmission. If necessary, use mosquito nets, mosquito coils, and install mosquito prevention devices such as screens, screen doors, and mosquito nets as much as possible.
It is especially important for children to take antimalarial drugs when moving to endemic areas.
