Medical image validation of traditional Chinese medicine efficacy and treatment mechanism to achieve new breakthroughs

2017 07 15 Source: Xinmin Evening News reporter: Zuo Yan

      Traditional medicine is able to develop, the key is the efficacy, how to confirm its effectiveness? Today (15) morning in Shanghai, the National Association of Integrative Medicine Medical Imaging Professional Committee of the fifteenth national academic conference, Shanghai Institute of Integrative Medicine medical professional committee chairman, Shuguang Hospital, director of the Department of Radiology, said Professor Zhan Songhua, After thousands of years of sedimentation, clinically proven Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment methods, can also use Western medicine means for diagnosis and treatment, especially through the imaging examination, can help diagnose the disease, determine the effectiveness of treatment, study the pathogenesis and treatment mechanism.

      Zhan Songhua said that the general public generally believe that medicine is divided into Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Chinese medicine through the traditional "Wang Wenwen cut" diagnosis and treatment of diseases, Western medicine through a variety of body fluid examination, imaging diagnosis of disease. But in today's scientific progress, modern imaging equipment has become an important tool for clinical diagnosis and treatment of Chinese medicine and scientific research.

      Shouguang Hospital, a recent study shows that in the treatment of cervical spondylosis, massage is a very effective method of clinical one, by comparing the patient before and after treatment of imaging data found that patients with dentate processes and lateral Distance can change from the distance between the two sides of the dentate process before treatment from the distance between the two sides to restore the same distance from the two sides of the block, which imaging for the evaluation of the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine provides an objective evidence.

      Imaging also plays a role in the treatment of Chinese medicine. Acupuncture is one of the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, especially in migraine, facial paralysis, stroke sequelae rehabilitation and other diseases in the treatment has a very good clinical value. At present, the level of blood oxygenation dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and other advanced technologies, is used to show the changes in the structure and function of the brain after acupuncture. Professor Zhan Songhua, Dr. Tan Wenli and his team led the team of Shanghai Yingying Medical Technology Co., Ltd., independently developed the head of the special magnetic resonance head coil, the first time to achieve the acupoint stimulation of the same time, the task state BOLD fMRI check, real-time Showing the activation of the intracranial brain zone. At present, it has been found that acupuncturing acupunctures at both sides of the frontal lobe is activated, indicating that imaging can be used to study the mechanism of acupuncture treatment of disease to provide new directions and means. Chinese medicine field integration of modern imaging technology, will also be modern Chinese medicine research and clinical application to provide a broader space.