TCM prevention copd 3 laws

GaoFeng Chinese medical academy Beijing hospital

        Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common chronic respiratory disease is a slow onset, clinical, repeated attacks, gradually, the process of progress the eventual cause of death, the airway lesions irreversible and treatment of the disease caused by the limitations of the inevitable high mortality. So the prevention of COPD happen and progress is to control the burden of the disease, the most effective way to reduce mortality.

        COPD belongs to the traditional Chinese medicine "out of card", "lung deflation" category, many for innate endowment is not enough, or the long illness, lost to cough and asthma in, so that the lung, spleen and kidney deficiency of three dirty. Vital qi deficiency, and the solid so easy to guard against, qi deficiency which functions to promote the body fluid to lose cloth is disorder, qi stagnant blood, and do the endogenous weakness, so that the blood stasis resistance collaterals, qi stagnant, blood stasis accumulate knot. Because of its functions and each fell, angry machine congestion, lung gas to the inverse cough and asthma repeated attacks.

        "Cure is not ill" is the traditional Chinese medicine preventive medicine thought highly generalization, which embodies Chinese medicine in the health care and prevention and cure of diseases "to the heavier than cure" features. In "cure is not ill" under the guidance of the concept of the disease, according to the etiology and pathogenesis, syndrome, the traditional Chinese medicine combined therapy characteristics, prevention of COPD, the occurrence and development from the following aspects.

        Pay attention to health of prevention

        Stop smoking dustproof, solid research shows that the gas COPD in recent years gradually higher incidence rates and the aggravation of smoking, air pollution, dust is related to such factors as the inhaled. TCM holds that for the chief Michael essien hot smoke, smoking, long, take gas Yin, LianYe ShengTan injury. Only to be effective cut off the smoking the pathological process of progressive. Should be to do a smoking ban and quit smoking, and propaganda work the harmfulness of tobacco, persuading smokers to quit, and limit public smoking, ensure that non-smokers from passive smoking of bitterness. In recent years, studies confirm acupuncture can be obtained a certain result, smoking methods including earpins, TiZhen two kinds. Common points for lung, stomach, points of the mouth, god door, sympathetic, etc, the body acupuncture point have sp9, three Yin, listed lack, all in the valley, etc. To engage in coal mine, digging ore, tunnel construction, metal processing, papermaking, cotton, cement manufacturing work of the staff, all should take corresponding measures to ensure ventilated take a breath, strengthen occupational protection.

        Daily life have often, reduce pathogenic repeated respiratory infections is another clear COPD happen cause. Lung, a canopy for the table, susceptibility, and the functions of lung disease, virtual what gas. So should conform to the season at climate change, timely clothing, daily life have often increase or decrease, avoid moderate, worked by evil, especially to such as winter season may take appropriate measures to strengthen prevent and avoid the crowd intensive and poor ventilation public places, and according to the personal constitution stay, or in root, and i. indigotica demonstrate to eliminate pathogenic detoxification, or to Qi centralizer and, such as solid form. In addition, the traditional Chinese medicine for external use (YaoZhen, sweet fume, fumigation), moxibustion sp9, massage meet sweet, springs, shenshu point and method can effectively prevent colds, can choose according to the circumstances. Exercise is to strengthen the upright, improve the solid and the important measures ability. No matter for the jin, taiji, qigong, or jogging, mountain climbing, swimming and so on, as long as perseverance, all is effective to prevent the method. For older age, body weak, the long illness, had the disease can consider to vaccination pneumonia, flu vaccines, and injection XiongXianTai, transfer factor, nuclear dairy method such as injection.

        The timely discovery early treatment

        Patients with COPD symptoms appear before a long time (about 20 ~ 30 years) almost no self-conscious symptom, or illness is light shallow, and progress is slow, this time the timely found signs of the disease, early treatment can be reversed, the illness. Therefore, to have long-term smoking, amounts of dust inhaled, respiratory infections and risk factors such as crowd periodically lung function census, once detected early intervention airway lesions. This phase of traditional Chinese medicine's many of the qi stagnant, reason in lung aggregates to further strengthen the before stage prevention measures emphasizes, on the basis of the lung, can adopt the phlegm mission of oral medicine and acupuncture methods.

        Already disease treated early delay progress

        For the confirmed COPD, need to take a long time, DuoZhong means of comprehensive treatment of plan, improve symptoms, remove v evil, gu protect healthy atmosphere, enhance the capacity of resistance, prevent recurrent, delay progress, improving the quality of life. Specific methods include the following several kinds.

        Dietary interventions this stage patients lung, spleen and kidney deficiency, lost all three dirty in operation, the function, the subtle source for insufficient, reason diet appropriate delicate and easy to digest, and rich in nutrition; Avoid excessive enough to eat, avoid spicy, cold, fatness. From the perspective of modern medicine, nutrition support is an important link of COPD treatment, emphasizing the high protein and fat, low carbohydrate, easy to digest, avoiding excessive carbon dioxide produced, reduce burden of the gastrointestinal tract. At the same time, some methods to fill the diet also lung, spleen phlegm like lily porridge, and so on, can be YiRen kindhearted used together.

        Rehabilitation exercise patients with COPD progressive decline, active ability of Chinese medicine theory is that sedentary long lie increase, so the loss of vital qi moderate exercise is the recovery, including treadmill walking, such as systemic motion and abdominal breathing, shrinking lip breathing breathing training. According to the illness should be setting individualized and targeted exercise plan, step by step, pay attention to avoid overtiring.

        Long-range family oxygen insisted that the long-term low flow oxygen > 15 h a day, can effectively improve the internal organs of the damage caused by hypoxia, improve sports endurance, delay the lung function is worsening, have clinical research confirmed that the effective treatment methods.

        This summer to winter disease present acute exacerbation period and stable alternating law, due to weak, the sun be the spirit, spleen and kidney operation water can't wet, phlegm retention long v, therefore it has a heavy, chun xia qiu dong the characteristics of light. According to the study of "chun xia qiu dong Yang, raise a Yin" theoretical guidance for the summer, lung temperature kidney to support the spleen, eliminating phlegm) to the drink to remove v evil, can get twice the result with half the effort. Desirable lung yu, spleen and kidney yu yu, and set the hole with asthma, sprouting analgesic action, dry ginger, and white mustard, ginger bread made medicine medicine, in SanFu climate hot when the acupoint sticking apply, or oral) was Ian soup, guangxi golden cabinet of kidney shot up the spleen benefit of lung kidney agent, all can the effect.

        Traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment in the stationary COPD, adhere to the stationary into traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment application is a more positive and effective treatment methods, should to make up for the spleen profit in the kidney, lung, and blood circulation in favor of lifter give priority to clear the phlegm and more. In the clinical work we application qi and promoting blood circulation phlegm treatment of this disease, through the improvement of lung function, correct hypoxemia, reduce blood thick, improve immune function, to prevent the repeated episodes of role, reduce the number of acute attack purpose, have achieved satisfactory curative effect.

        Acupuncture treatment to lung yu, and set out, spleen and kidney yu yu, midriff yu, QuChi, FengLong, sp9, tian tu, Shan medium point is given priority to, acupuncture and moxibustion feasible, point injection, the massage attack a vital point and other methods, the channels, regulating zang-fu tonify deficiency, diarrhea reality.