I've actually seen very early cases of deafness due to cold.
Let's put a famous medical case for you to see:
Zhou, male, 43 years old. 25 days ago, because of saving a child who fell into the water, his whole body was soaked. After returning home, he lay on the quilt, and he never got warm, resulting in sleepless nights. On the second day, I woke up with dark eyes, blindness, and only the sense of light. Accompanied by headaches, aches and chills. On ophthalmic examination, there were no problems in both eyes and fundus, and there were no abnormalities in intracranial examination.
*After 1 week, there was no improvement, and it dragged on for more than 20 days.
The spirit is poor, the complexion is not ruddy, blue and white, and the qi is insufficient. There is a feeling of inflexibility all over the body, and chills are not obvious. There was only light in his eyes, and he couldn't even see his fingers. The tongue is light and moist, white and greasy, and the pulse is thin and slightly tight.
It is believed that although there is no obvious cold disease, it still belongs to the violent blindness caused by the cold evil and the lack of yin.
It is advisable to promote lung and kidney warmth, and add ginger with ephedra aconite fine spicy soup: make aconite, ephedra, liao fine pungent and ginger.
After 1 dose, I felt sweating on my body, a little sweat, the feeling of inflexibility and discomfort in my whole body disappeared, the body pain also disappeared, and the sense of vision increased.
After 2 doses, I can count my fingers and distinguish a human figure within 1 meter. After 5 doses of the original prescription, the vision returned to normal.
You may think that this kind of case must be an individual case, and there is not much chance to jump into the river in the winter to save people.
In fact, it doesn't have to be so cold, and the evil of wind and cold can also lead to such a situation.
A while ago, Nanjing cooled down, and a pair of good friends of mine were out in the cold, and the next day after returning home, one was dumb and the other was deaf, a perfect match.
The dumb one does not mean that he is completely speechless, but that he has difficulty making a sound, and all the sounds are gas.
The deaf one is not completely inaudible, one ear is good, and the other ear keeps landing on the plane, as if blindfolded, unable to hear the words, only muffled speech.
These two people didn't look for me at first, and the dumb one ate Huang's Xiangsheng Pill and could have made a sound of breath, but he couldn't even make a sound of breath after eating.
The deaf one didn't eat anything and went straight to the hospital. I did various ear checkups in the hospital, and I said that everything was fine! Why can't you hear it? The doctor didn't know, so he said no, hang the water and try it.
Both of them stayed at home for three days and didn't come to me until the fourth day.
When I looked, both of them were sick because of the wind and cold, and both of them were weak and cold, with fat tongues and pale white edges, tooth marks, sticking out and answering wetly. The pulses are very weak.
The reason why they are deaf and dumb is because they are too weak, and the wind and cold are straight and the feet are less yin and kidney meridians. The kidney meridian follows the throat, and the kidney opens to the ear, so after the kidney is exposed to cold, it will cause violent dumbness and deafness.
If you understand this truth, when you encounter blindness, deafness and muteness, you will carefully distinguish the symptoms, and you will not rashly take cold medicine. At this time, if you use cold medicine again, it will become more serious and irreversible.
Especially for deafness, it is necessary to take symptomatic medication in time, otherwise once it is delayed for more than a month, there is almost no possibility of recovery, and only part of the hearing can be restored.
So I recommended my two friends to take ephedra aconite soup immediately.
This recipe is designed for the evidence of the deficiency of yang in the body and the relapse of wind and cold. This yang deficiency external sense, the evidence of both the surface and the inside, if it is purely divergent with pungent temperature, then due to yang deficiency and unable to sweat, or although sweat will cause yang to fall off with the liquid, the treatment should be used to help yang and solve the surface in parallel.
Recommended recipes, for reference only: boiled ephedra (fry for half an hour first), make aconite (fry for 1 hour first), fine pungent, green onion white (with whiskers).
This formula is often used for colds, epidemics, bronchitis, sinus syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Allergic rhinitis, blindness, muteness, laryngeal paralysis, itching, etc.
Ephedra needs to be fried first, for fear that too much yang deficiency and sweating will cause yang to fall off. The purpose of adding green onion white is to ventilate yang qi and diffuse the evil of wind and cold.
After these two people went home, they were very obedient, took the medicine on time, the dumb one, got better the next day, and after taking three medicines, their voices had completely recovered.
However, there were symptoms of runny nose and cough, which is a manifestation of cold and evil, which is a good thing, and he was cured by taking Tongxuanli Lung Pills.
The deaf one is more serious due to his own deficiency and cold, and his spleen and stomach are not good, so he eats and vomits.
Chronic gastritis, stomach ulcers, stomach cold pain, this pill must be understood.
After using 5 payments, the symptoms of the back of the ear disappeared, but there was a severe tinnitus sound, in her own words, like an old radio in her ear, unable to receive the channel, and kept making that kind of noise.
In this case, although the cold evil is discharged, the yang qi is floating outside and cannot be returned, so the four reverse soup + cinnamon is used later, which is also called Dahui Yang drink.
Suggested prescription, for reference only:
Make aconite (fry for 1 hour), dried ginger, boiled licorice, cinnamon powder (take with water).
This recipe continued to be used for another week, during which she experienced fever and cough in the chest, itching in the body, etc., all of which were manifestations of yang qi coming and going, so she was not afraid.
After taking the medicine, the tinnitus finally stopped, and the hearing was basically restored, and the work was called a day.
These cases are all caused by cold, and the methods are different from our general sense, there is no blind to treat blindness, deafness to treat deafness, and dumbness to treat dumbness. No targeted drugs were used, but they were mainly used to dissipate cold and benefit yang.
The results have received very good results, which shows the importance of curing the root cause.