FAN Yongsheng's Experience in Treating Gouty Arthritis by Using Simiao Powder / 浙江中医药大学学报

ABSTRACT

[Objective] To summarize the experience of professor FAN Yongsheng who uses the herbal prescription"modified Simiao powder"to treat gouty arthritis, so as to direct our clinical practice better. [Method] By learning from professor FAN as well as collating his medical cases that applicating "modified Simiao powder" to the treatment of gouty arthritis, clearing and definiting how teacher FAN thinks etiologies and pathogenesis of gouty arthritis and analyzing the prescription of"Simiao powder"and giving two clinical cases, so that we can learn and discuss. [Result] Teacher FAN believes that gout pathogenesis for the body fluid metabolic abnormalities, and body fluid metabolism and liver and spleen and kidney three organs are closely related. Patients usually irritable or liver qi stagnation, or like to eat greasy meat, temper deficiency, or lack of kidney essence, gasification weakness, resulting in wet endogenous, wet evil staying in the joints, the emergence of local fever, phlegm, blood stasis, poisonous evil, into gouty arthritis. Acute onset of the pathogenesis of "hot and humid", the course of time for the "hot and humid phlegm stagnant each other", treatment should follow the law of "clear away heat-dampness", according to the cause, changes in the pathogenesis of flexible application of four wonderful addition and subtraction; And to Qufeng, detoxification, blood circulation, dredge meridian, so as to achieve dialectical treatment, with the card addition and subtraction. [Conclusion] Professor FAN Yongsheng uses"modified Simiao powder"to treat gouty arthritis and has achieved good clinical efficacy, worthy of clinical study and reference.