Progress of clinical and experimental studies on the Traditional Chinese medicine for diabetic ;peripheral neuropathy
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-4246.2016.05.028
- VernacularTitle:糖尿病周围神经病变的中医临床及实验研究进展
- Author:
Shuquan LYU
;
Shufang ZHANG
;
Xiuhai SU
;
Ruiqing GUO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy;
Traditional Chinese medicine;
Clinical;
Experiment;
Review
- From:
International Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2016;38(5):470-473
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Recently, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) researches on diabetic peripheral neuropathy made great progress. It is found that theetiology and pathogenesis was the deficiency in origin and the ecessive in superficialty. The deficiencyincluded Yin deficiency, Qi deficiency, blood deficiency, deficiency of both Qi and Yin, Yang deficiency, while the ecessive in superficialty included blood stasis, stasis of phlegm and blood. Thus, the principles of treatment were supplementing Qi and nourishing Yin, warming Yang, promoting blood and removing blood stasis, and smooth Luo, all of which showed the characteristics of TCM treatment were combination of inside and outside, and multi-target effects. This paper reviewed the progress of clinical and experimental studies on the TCM for diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
