Current Situation and Prospect of Chinese Medicine Pharmacology on Autoimmune Thyroiditis / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

As the most common organ-specific autoimmune disease,autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) is characterized by intrathyroidal lymphocyte infiltration and specificthyroid autoantibodies.Modern medicine is short of effective etiological treatment at present,and has no specific medicine foreuthyroidism of AIT patients,who have been followed-up passively.Chinese medicine treatmenthas the characteristics of multiple-targets,multiple-links and multiple-pathways,which plays a special superiorityrole in the prevention and treatment of AIT.The purpose of this article was to sort out and set forthmore Chinese medicine pharmacology on AIT recently,which provided evidence for further clinical apply.