Study on interstitial lung disease associated with connective tissue disease in TCM / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

The interstitial lung disease associated with connective tissue disease is beyonded to the lung bi disease or the lung wei disease. The basic pathology of pulmonary fibrosis is deficiency in origin, which is focused on lung, spleen and kidney. And excess is caused by stagnation of phlegm and blood. Deficiency, phlegm and blood can be finded during all over the pulmonary course. The deficiency in origin and the excess in superficiality often affect each other. In clinical course, the disease is assigned to four key kinds. At present, superiority has been made in the treatment of the interstitial lung disease with TCM. Moreover, it is necessary to research it with TCM furtherly to resove more difficult problems.