Treatment of Small Cell Lung Cancer from the Perspective of Wind
10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2024.09.013
- VernacularTitle:从风论治小细胞肺癌
- Author:
Rong HUANG
1
;
Liqun JIA
2
;
Ruitao WANG
1
;
Jianrong SUN
1
;
Qing LIU
2
Author Information
1. School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, 100029
2. China-Japan Friendship Hospital
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
small cell lung cancer;
wind pathogen;
deficiency of both qi and yin
- From:
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2024;65(9):949-953
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
It is believed that wind pathogen is one of the core pathogenic factors of small cell lung cancer (SCLC). The nature and pathogenic characteristics of wind pathogen are closely related to the occurrence and metastasis of SCLC. Mainly manifested as deficiency of both qi and yin, healthy qi deficiency of SCLC makes it susceptible to invasion of external wind. Simultaneously, there are internal wind pathogenesis such as yin deficiency causing wind, blood deficiency causing wind, phlegm, stasis and toxin causing wind, liver yang transforming into wind. The internal and external winds together lead to the disease. Therefore, it is proposed to treat SCLC from wind theory, that is, boosting qi and nourishing yin to extinguish wind with taizishen (Radix Pseudostellariae), wuweizi (Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis) and others; resolving phlegm and moving stasis to dispel wind with wind-dispelling and phlegm-resolving medicinals such as jiangcan (Bombyx Batryticatus), muhudie (Semen Oroxyli), fangfeng (Radix Saposhnikoviae), tianma (Rhizoma Gastrodiae), quanxie (Scorpio) and blood-invigorating and wind-dispelling medi-cinals such as danggui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis), chuanxiong (Rhizoma Chuanxiong) and danshen (Radix et Rhizoma Salviae Miltiorrhizae); attacking toxin and dissipating masses to dispel wind with shuizhi (Hirudo), dilong (Pheretima), fengfang (Nidus Vespae), quanxie, baihuashe (Agkistrodon), jiuxiangchong (Aspongopus) and other drastic medicinals; calming liver and extinguishing wind to prevent brain metastasis of SCLC with Tianma Gouteng Beverage (天麻钩藤饮) modification.