Experience in treating acne / 中华中医药杂志

This article introduced Professor WENG Li-li’s experience in treating acne. She held that the following four principles should be obeyed during the treatment course: determination of treatment based on syndrome differentiation, application of drugs based on essence of disease; stopping using clearing heat and detoxicating when it achieved therapeutic effect; resolving method was the main method for syndrome of intermingled phlegm and blood stasis; weighing the main and secondary of excess and deficiency.

Study on rules of TCM differential treatment of side effects induced by antipsychotic / 中华中医药杂志

In clinical, the common side effects of antipsychotic were extrapyramidal symptoms, drug-induced liver injury, sexual dysfunction, amenorrhea, neutropenia, drug-induced dermatitis, digestive disorders, abnormal increase in body weight, etc. According to patients clinical manifestations of side effects of antipsychotics and chinese medical clinic cognitive model of ‘outer appearance from inside essence’, ‘conjecturing the interior by observing the exterior’, ‘analogy by classifi cation’, ‘identifying etiology by symptoms differentiation’, ‘syndrome determination by drugs’, etc., it can be found that in conventional treatment course, different antipsychotic drugs acted on the different human body may induce different side effects and different toxic reaction, generally including stagnation of heat in spleen-stomach, excessive heat in Yangming, excessive heat generating wind, body fluid deficiency generating wind, internal retention of phlegm and dampness, obstruction of collaterals. TCM differential treatment to antipsychotic-induced disease obtained a more signifi cant effect. Clearing away heat, purgative activity, invigorating qi, nourishing yin, activating blood flow, resolving phlegm were the basic treatment methods, of which nourishing yin, activating blood flow were of particular signifi cance.

Experience of veteran TCM doctor KONG Si-bo in treating optical disease / 中华中医药杂志

Objective: To study and discuss the experience veteran TCM doctor KONG Si-bo in treating optical disease. Methods: To analyze the academic thoughts of KONG Si-Bo from four aspects: theory, method, formula and herbs. Results: According to differentiation of syndrome, KONG Si-bo emphasized on the entirety and treating according to three categories of disease causes. He thought that on the base of traditional eight principle differentiation, yin and yang played a more important role in differentiation. In treatment aspect, he prefered to eliminating stagnation, especially eliminating liver stagnation. As for herbs, he liked using Shigao to clear heat, and had lots of gains from learning about herbs of expelling wind, regulating qi, dissipating stasis, invigoration. Conclusions: The experience of expert KONG Si-bo in treating optical disease deserved researching and learning by other doctors.