Changes in Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment of Liver Cirrhosis after Experimental Techniques Involved
10.11842/wst.2014.09.022
- VernacularTitle:实验技术介入后中医论治“肝硬化”的变迁
- Author:
Xiangjing ZHUANG
;
Chunhua JIA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Cognition;
liver cirrhosis;
famous doctors' experiences;
syndrome differentiation and treatment
- From:
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2014;(9):1984-1988
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The proceeding of syndrome differentiation and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is like a problem-solving process, operated by the steps-- what is it, why does it form, and how do I do. Before making a treatment decision, a doctor needs to recognize all symptoms. However, the cognitive process is influenced by the doctor's previous knowledge and experience. Because of experimental techniques involved, TCM doctors today can see and understand the phenomenon which ancient doctors could not know. Besides, the laboratory test indices which ancient doctors could not know arouse new thinking and more interpretations of the etiology and pathogenesis for TCM doctors today. This paper would discuss the experimental techniques involved in changes of TCM treatment of liver cirrhosis as an example. It found that there were some kind of differences in understanding these issues between ancient and modern doctors, what is liver cirrhosis, why does it form, and how do I treat it. The more doctors' under-standings close to the truth of what liver cirrhosis is and why it forms, the more efficaciously they resolve the prob-lem, how to treat the disease.
