Professor ZHAN Wen-tao’s academic experience of prevention and early treatment of diseases on critical illness / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

The‘prevention and early treatment of diseases’conception as‘Huangdi Neijing’suggested,is the highest academic realm among the Chinese medical theory,it flows through the entire process of Chinese medical theory and diseases prevention.Four aspects of the prevention conception manifested in the process of Chinese medical prevention of diseases are Taking preventive measures before confirmed diagnosis(health cultivation),impeding diffusion after confirmed diagnosis, deterring diffusion from deterioration,and restraining deterioration from being malignant.The malignant causal chain conversion of the coexistence of asthenia and sthenia is considered as the inducing links of critical illness’occurrence,evolution and transformation.Therefore,to intercept the malignant causal chain conversion comes to the key technique of Chinese medical remedy for critical illness.The‘prevention and early treatment of diseases’conception must impenetrate the versal process of treating critical illness.The overall clue and method of Chinese medical remedy for critical illness is to identify and grasp the vital contradiction and each respect of the malignant causal chain conversion which concurs with the evolution of the critical illness,simultaneously utilize the method which combined the prevention in etiology and pathogenesis with the remedy in etiology and pathogenesis,then actuate the pathologically changed organism to extricate from critical conditions at the first opportunity, finalizing with convalescence and recuperation thereafter.