Treatment of Disseminated Sclerosis Combining Disease and Syndrome with Traditional Chinese Medicine / 中华中医药杂志
China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy
;
(12)2005.
Article
in Chinese
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ABSTRACT
Disseminated sclerosis(DS) is an autoimmune demyelinating disease of the central nervous system(CNS) that attacks generally the youth.The common symptoms of DS are hypopsia,paralysis,abnormal sense,urine deposited,dysfunction of bowels,etc.Sometimes MS also injures neural advanced functions.Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) mainly defines DS as "atrophy syndrome" according to its clinic symptoms.During acute relapsing period,most DS patients present deficiency of yin of both the kidney and liver,occurring with blood stasis and phlegm.Moreover,high dose methylprednisolone can activate pathogenic fire to damage the yin that aggravates deficiency of yin.Along with repeated relapse and evolvement of DS,the body's condition will change into syndrome of deficiency of both the yin and yang.So,the drugs of nourishing both the kidney and liver yin,activating blood circulation and clearing phlegm should be applied first to treat DS. Besides,the drugs of clearing heat,activating yang,motivating flow of qi,dredging the Fu-organ,invigorating blood and regulating liver-qi should also be used according to the different syndromes.
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China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy
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2005
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