Guangdong Women and Children Hospital

Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic（越秀院区）

The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a clinical department centered on maternal and child health care and conditioning, providing constitution-based conditioning for people with suboptimal health and traditional Chinese medicine prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation for various maternal and child diseases. It is a National Demonstration Unit for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Maternal and Child Health Care Institutions, a Guangdong Province Demonstration Unit for Traditional Chinese Medicine Work in General Hospitals, one of the first batch of national key gynecology specialties in traditional Chinese medicine (integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine) for maternal and child health, and a training base for traditional Chinese medicine and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in maternal and child health care. It currently has multiple specialties, including TCM pediatrics (pediatric respiratory health care, pediatric digestive tract health care, and pediatric growth and development conditioning), TCM gynecology (TCM gynecology, TCM postpartum health care, TCM reproductive health care, and the TCM pregnancy-nurturing health care subspecialty), and a TCM pain specialty, among others; TCM pediatrics and TCM gynecology are among the first batch of key TCM specialties in Guangdong Province under the “11th Five-Year Plan.” The Department of TCM has always adhered to the concept of “nurturing the soil, cultivating the seeds, and protecting the seedlings.” After years of accumulation and consolidation, the team now has 25 members, including 2 renowned TCM physicians of Guangdong Province. They have extensive diagnostic and treatment experience and possess distinctive clinical efficacy and traditional therapies with TCM characteristics. The main services are as follows: Pediatric direction: 1. Respiratory system diseases: such as fever, the common cold, cough, recurrent respiratory tract infections, allergic rhinitis, allergic cough, herpangina, acute bronchitis, pneumonia, bronchial asthma, etc. 2. Pediatric digestive system diseases: such as diarrhea, anorexia, ganji (infantile malnutrition), constipation, pediatric mesenteric lymphadenitis, vomiting, etc. 3. Pediatric growth and development system diseases: such as delayed growth and development, short stature, precocious puberty, etc. 4. Other pediatric diseases: such as eczema, jaundice, allergic purpura, hyperhidrosis, enuresis, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, epidemic mumps, chickenpox, pediatric attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, tic disorder, etc. Obstetrics and gynecology direction: 1. Polycystic ovary syndrome, pelvic inflammatory disease, postoperative intestinal adhesions, and abdominal pain caused by postoperative intestinal adhesions in gynecology and obstetrics. 2. Preconception and pre-childbearing conditioning: including preconception and pre-childbearing constitutional conditioning, TCM conditioning for ovulatory disorders, improvement of endometrial receptivity, and conditioning for andrological diseases such as oligospermia and asthenozoospermia. 3. Menstrual disorders: including early menstruation, late menstruation, scanty menstruation, excessive menstruation, and prolonged menstruation. 4. Pregnancy complications: including maternal-fetal ABO blood-group incompatibility, intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, colds and coughs during pregnancy, hyperemesis gravidarum, constipation during pregnancy, sleep disorders during pregnancy, etc. 5. Postpartum diseases: such as persistent lochia, postpartum body pain, postpartum hyperhidrosis, postpartum hypogalactia, milk stasis, postpartum hair loss, postpartum depressive state, postpartum constipation, postpartum urinary retention, postpartum urinary leakage, uterine prolapse, pelvic floor muscle dysfunction, etc. Pain direction: 1. Osseous conditions such as neck, shoulder, low-back, and leg pain: cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, acute and chronic lumbar sprain, pain syndrome after lumbar surgery, sciatica, vertebral compression fracture, osteoarthritis, periarthritis of the shoulder, tennis elbow, synovitis, etc. 2. Headache: such as migraine, menstrual headache, cervicogenic headache, tension headache, post-traumatic headache, etc. 3. Neuralgia: such as trigeminal neuralgia, intercostal neuralgia, acute herpes zoster, postherpetic neuralgia, local pain syndrome, etc. 4. Other conditions: such as gouty arthritis, intractable hiccups, facial paralysis, restless legs syndrome, etc. The department currently provides nearly 50 TCM services, including Chinese herbal medicine decoctions, Chinese herbal ointments, Chinese herbal medicinal diets, acupuncture, moxibustion, acupoint thread embedding, fire-dragon cupping, thunder-fire moxibustion, cupping therapy, acupoint application, Chinese herbal fumigation, pediatric tuina, manual reduction, needling of the four seams, TCM constitution identification, midnight-noon ebb-flow treatment, and transcutaneous drug-delivery electrical stimulation.