Prof. WANG Shou-chuan’s Experience in treating children tourette,s Syndrome according to pathomechanism of wind and phlegm / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

Prof. WANG Shou-chuan thought that children Tourette’s syndrome were due to wind and phlegm accumulation interior, imbalance between yin and yang. It is a manifestation excess include wind that is excess wind of liver wind and lung wind and deficiency wind due to yin deficiency, phlegm that is phlegm-fire and phlegm-turbidity; and root deficiency lying in the liver, spleen and kidney. He treated the patients with the main method of eliminating phlegm and extinguishing wind, according to the pathomechanism of wind and phlegm, accompanied with pacifying liver and purging fire, dispelling phlegm and calming mind, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the heart, nourishing the liver and tonifying the kidney. He produced the formula Fengning decoction, modif ication according to the symptoms of the patients. Its curative effect was remarkable and should be widely applied in clinic.