The heart is good or bad, just look in the mirror! Five changes or heart disease precursors

According to the statistics released by the World Arrhythmia Congress, there are about 20 million arrhythmia patients in China, and about 540,000 people die of sudden cardiac death every year.

The Journal of the American College of Cardiology published the results of the Prospective Study of Chronic Diseases in China: 67.9% of major coronary events such as acute myocardial infarction and 39.1% of ischemic stroke in Chinese people are related to unhealthy lifestyles such as smoking, excessive drinking, insufficient exercise, unreasonable diet structure and obesity.

Maybe you don’t know that heart disease may affect your appearance before palpitation and precordial pain appear. Today, I will teach you how to detect signs of heart disease early by observing abnormal physical changes.

What are the unusual physical changes of heart disease?

1. Facial edema

Edema is a local or systemic swelling caused by the accumulation of extracellular fluid in the body, which is related to diseases of multiple organs.

If the face is swollen, facial muscle tissue is slack, pressing with fingers will leave an indentation, and the skin at the indentation can’t recover its elasticity immediately. These changes may indicate heart problems.

2. Finger (toe) terminal hypertrophy

The ends of fingers (or toes) are obviously enlarged, resembling drumsticks, the skin depressions disappear, the soft tissues at the ends are raised, and the surrounding skin is tight and shiny. This situation is common in patients with chronic cor pulmonale or congenital cyanotic heart disease.

3. Neck thickening

According to clinical experience, neck enlargement is relatively high with blood pressure, blood lipid and blood sugar, which are closely related to heart disease. Under normal circumstances, the neck circumference of men is more than 39 cm, and that of women is more than 35 cm, indicating that the neck is thicker.

4. Earlobe wrinkles

If there are continuous folds in the earlobe, it is likely to indicate severe coronary atherosclerosis.

The fold starts from the tragus and extends to the edge of the earlobe, with an angle of 45 degrees, and the length is more than 1/3 of the earlobe, which can appear on one side or both sides.

5. The skin is darker or darker purple.

The skin of patients with chronic heart failure or advanced cor pulmonale may appear dark brown or dark purple, which is related to long-term hypoxia of tissues.

Patients with rheumatic heart disease or mitral stenosis may have a dark red face. For patients with mitral insufficiency, the face may be pale. The dysfunction of heart pumping leads to hypoxia, which will make the skin and mucosa appear cyanosis.

If you have the above problems and suspect that you have heart disease, please go to the hospital for a comprehensive examination to determine the next treatment plan.

How to recuperate the heart?

1. Angina pectoris: Neiguan point and Shenmen point.

This method is suitable for daily health care of patients with coronary heart disease or angina pectoris.

Location of Neiguan point: it is about three fingers wide upward from the center of the proximal transverse stripes of the wrist.

Massage method: apply the force from light to heavy, so as to produce the equivalence of acupoint acid, numbness, swelling, pain and heat. Massage at each acupoint once every morning and afternoon for 2-3 minutes.

2. Arrhythmia: Qimen point

Under normal circumstances, people’s quiet heart rate is 60~100 beats per minute. When the heart rate is too fast, too slow or irregular, it is called arrhythmia.

Location of Yamen point: it is located 5 inches above the wrist transverse stripes, between the palmaris longus tendon and the flexor carpi radialis tendon. It is roughly equivalent to the midpoint of the wrist transverse stripes and elbow transverse stripes, and is located between the two tendons.

Massage method: Gently press the acupoints with the peak of thumb or forefinger (avoid pinching the skin with nails), knead first and then press, with downward pressing as the main method, alternating left and right. You need to use a little force when pressing. Massage at each acupoint once every morning and afternoon for 5 minutes.

Three soups that are good for the heart

1. Baizi Yangxin Decoction

Ingredients: 6 grams of Semen Platycladi, 20 grams of Radix Astragali, 30 grams of Rhizoma Dioscoreae, 1 pig heart, and proper amount of Fructus Lycii.

Practice: Wash Semen Platycladi, Radix Astragali and Rhizoma Dioscoreae, slice pig heart, and prepare proper amount of Fructus Lycii. Put all the ingredients in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, simmer for 1 hour, and add appropriate amount of salt to taste.

Efficacy: Baizi Yangxin Decoction has the functions of nourishing the heart and nourishing blood, calming the nerves and calming the mind. It is suitable for patients with heart disease, especially those with symptoms such as insufficient heart blood and palpitation and insomnia.

2. Red bean and barley soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of red beans, 30 grams of coix seed, 30 grams of yam, and proper amount of red dates.

Practice: Wash red beans, coix seed and yam, and remove the core from red dates. Put all the ingredients in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, cook with slow fire until soft and rotten, and add appropriate amount of rock sugar to taste.

Efficacy: Red bean glutinous rice soup has the functions of invigorating spleen, diuresis, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and has certain auxiliary effect on patients with heart disease.

3.wuren black-bone chicken soup

Ingredients: 1 walnut kernel, 8 grams of Schisandra chinensis, 5 grams of Ziziphus jujuba seed, 20 grams of lotus seeds, 20 grams of Euryale ferox, 100 grams of black-bone chicken, 250 grams of pig spine (with meat) and a small amount of honey.

Practice: Wash black-bone chicken and pig spine, blanch in boiling water pot to remove blood, remove and cut into small pieces; Wash walnut kernels, Schisandra chinensis and Ziziphus jujuba seeds, put them in a casserole, add 1500g of water, boil them, remove floating foam, stew them with low fire until the bones are crisp and the meat is rotten, eat the main ingredients hot before meals and drink hot soup (add honey to taste before drinking).

Efficacy: Supplementing weakness, nourishing kidney, nourishing heart and calming nerves. Is suitable for heart disease with neurasthenia, arrhythmia and healthy people.

Please note that the soup and massage mentioned above can’t completely cure heart disease, but are only used as auxiliary health care measures. If you or others have symptoms of heart disease, please seek medical advice in time and follow the doctor’s advice and treatment plan.

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