FU Weimin's Experience in Treating Schizophrenia Through Accurate Differentiation / 浙江中医药大学学报

ABSTRACT

[Objective ]Summarizing the old Chinese medicine Professor FU Weimin's experience in diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia. [ Methods ] Learning from Professor FU as well as collating his medical case of schizophrenia. [Results] Professor FU thinks that sputum fire blinded heart is the pathogenesis of schizophrenia, with the Qi stagnation and blood stasis as the main risk factors. Therefore, during the treatment, clear heat and resolve phlegm should be a fundamental, and with relieving the depressed liver, promoting blood circulation to remove stasis and purgation. He emphasizes the precise dialectical when talking about the disease stage. In aspect of the drug matching, Professor FU uses formulae to clear heat and resolve phlegm, regulate the Qi, treat the interior excess syndrome with purgation and open the orifices to solve the external and internal diseases. He prefers to protect the stomach and has already made a good therapeutic effect in clinical application. [Conclusion] Professor FU's experience in treating schizophrenia provides TCM ideas and methods for clinical practice, which is worthy of popularizing.