| Tourette syndrome(TS) is a tic disorder(TD) in a more serious form, mainly characterized by sudden involuntary multiple muscle tics in the head, face, limbs, or trunk, and vocalizations, which belongs to the categories of "liver wind" or "chronic infantile convulsion". Professor Ma Bingxiang believes that when qi movement becomes deranged, internal wind arises and gives rise to muscle tic, when wind phlegm obstructs the throat, it can causes vocal tic, and if wind phlegm moves inward and block the heart orifice, coprolalia may occur and the person may not be able to recognize people. Professor Ma, after years of clinical experience, has summarized and put forward the view of "Unrest is resolved when phlegm is eliminated and qi movement becomes normal". He pointed out that in the treatment of TS, one should combine the physiological characteristics of children's "three surpluses and four deficiencies", and take promoting lung qi, harmonizing liver and spleen, clearing the heart and orifices, and strengthening essence qi as the main method to sort out qi movement. This way, the phlegm can be eliminated and wind can be extinguished. |
