Exploration on Professor YAN Xiao-ping,s experience in treating palindromic rheumatism / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

This thesis systematically summarizes the experience of Professor YAN Xiao-ping in treating palindromic rheumatism, the following conclusions we have got ① Palindromic rheumatism is very much like panodynia in Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic, and the treatment of this disease should according to that of panodynia; ②The primary pathological mechanism is the deficiency of spleen and kidney, and the secondary is the invading of wind evil factor accompanying with some other evil factors; ③The treatment principals including nourishing kidney and spleen for the radical treatment, expelling the evil factor such as wind, cold, dampness and hot, assisting with pungent and warm herbs to through channels when expelling hot and clearing away dampness, moving the blood stasis all the way. Because it is shortage of literatures about this disease, the thesis has some practical significance.