What to do if you have restless legs? What home remedies are available?

The full name of restless legs in medicine is restless legs syndrome, which is a relatively common disease in middle-aged and elderly people, and the cause of this disease is not clear, but it is found that some patients have other diseases before the onset of the disease, such as iron deficiency anemia, Parkinson's, uremia, folic acid deficiency, iron deficiency anemia, pregnancy, etc., so it is believed that the occurrence of restless legs is also related to other diseases. So, how to alleviate the restlessness?

1. Patients with restless legs can soak their feet in warm water before going to bed every night to effectively relax local muscles, promote local blood circulation and nutrient supply, and reduce the incidence of symptoms. At the same time, you can also rub the soles of your feet with your hands after washing your feet early in the morning or before going to bed, and stop the operation when the soles of your feet are rubbed to fever and redness, which can also prevent symptoms such as numbness and sensitivity to cold in your feet and legs. Usually you should also combine work and rest to avoid excessive fatigue and cold.

2. Patients with restless legs should also pay attention to maintaining a balanced diet at ordinary times, especially pay attention to quitting smoking and drinking, eat less meat dishes, and eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. You can also take some dietary remedies under the guidance of TCM syndrome differentiation to regulate your physique and fundamentally prevent the onset of restless leg symptoms.

3. Patients with restless legs can also be alleviated by traditional Chinese medicine methods, which mostly adopt the method of dialectical classification treatment, such as the patient's dialectical belonging to the external wind, cold and dampness, and the method of dissipating cold and dampness should be used when the disease is dissipated; If the dialectic belongs to the patient with blood stasis, it is necessary to use drugs that invigorate blood and remove blood stasis**; Patients with insufficient hepatic blood should use drugs that have the effect of nourishing the liver and kidneys**. During the period of medication, acupuncture, scraping, cupping and other methods can also be used to assist**, which can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Method. 1. Acupuncture:

a) Acupuncture points. Main acupoint: divided into 3 groups. 1. Zusanli, Chengshan, and Boneless; 2. Yangling Spring, Jiexi, Sanyinjiao; 3. Outer hills, commissions, and eight winds.

2) Governing the law. Take a group of acupoints each time, after entering the needle, make the patient have soreness, numbness, heaviness or slight radiating sensation in the local or lower legs, and then apply the flat and flat laxative technique, leave the needle for 30 minutes, and use moxa sticks for gentle moxibustion for 5 minutes after the needle, with ** redness as the degree. 1 time a day, 10 times a course of treatment.

Method. 2. General**.

Wash your feet with lukewarm water or wash your lower limbs with mugwort leaf water before going to bed. Massage local muscles.

Method. 3. Symptomatic**.

If anemia is present, it should be corrected. If the onset occurs during pregnancy, symptoms may disappear after delivery.

Method. 4. Drugs**.

Inositol 1 g, 1 time per night.

Use vasodilators such as niacin, hyoscyamine 5 mg**. 1 time daily.

Dopaminergic drugs or dopamine agonists, such as medopa 125 to 250 mg and sinimab 125 mg, are used once daily. It is rarely used in China.

Antispasmodics such as carbamazepine or sodium valproate should be taken once before bedtime.

Vitamin B1 100mg, vitamin B2 50mg, alternately injected in the body surface of Weizhong, Chengshan or along the peroneal nerve trunk, one acupoint of the affected limb once a day, 5 days as a course of treatment.

Restless legs are mainly the symptoms of sudden leg cramps and discomfort when the elderly sleep at night, this kind of convulsions are not due to calcium deficiency, and their convulsions can be accompanied by pain, which will seriously affect the sleep quality of the elderly. In such cases, the legs are usually massaged, and Western medicine can use demerol, dopamine agonists, and carbamazepine**. Traditional Chinese medicine can use needles.