Spleen-Lung Relations in TCM and Modern Research of“Banking up Earth to Generate Metal”
10.11842/wst.2015.06.005
- VernacularTitle:中医脾肺关系及“培土生金”理论的现代研究
- Author:
Yan LIU
;
Qingxiang ZHANG
;
Ming LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Spleen-lung relations;
banking up earth to generate metal;
clinical practice;
modern research
- From:
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2015;(6):1146-1149
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
By employing the mother-child and meridian relations between the spleen and the lung, this paper expanded on the therapeutic method of“banking up earth to generate metal” and its clinical practice in terms of excess and deficiency. After that, a modern research on the theory was made from the following 6 perspectives:refractory angina, asthma, bronchitis and reflux gastritis, pulmonary and digestive lymphatic system, pulmonary and digestive immune system, pulmonary and digestive endocrine system, pulmonary inflammatory disease and gastrointestinal flora system, and the influence of them on spleen-deficiency asthma rats airway inflammation, which fully demonstrated the importance of the classic traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment principle of“banking up earth to generate metal” on the treatment of lung and digestive diseases.
