Proved cases of asthma treated with full course warming method by professor HONG Guang-xiang / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

According to many years' clinical experience,professor HONG Guang-xiang proposed that etiology of bronchial asthma mainly included qi-yang deficiency was the internal cause,phlegm and stasis on lung was the basic reason,six exogenous pathogenic factors were the most common inducement factors.He firstly raised therapeutical viewpoint of "treating asthma with full course warming method"(warmly diffusing,warmly dredging,warmly dispelling,warmly resolving and warmly invigorating),which was significant for clinical application.Three cases of exterior cold and interior fluid retention,heat due to phlegm stagnancy and chronic persistent bronchial asthma were presented to further explain the clinical application of full course warming method.