Clinical characteristics of ‘phlegm disease’ in TCM
- VernacularTitle:论中医“痰病”的临床特征
- Author:
Guijuan PAN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
TCM;
Phlegm disease;
Clinical characteristics
- From:
China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy
2006;0(09):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The characteristics of phlegm are accumulating gradually,owing un-predicted,being adhesive in nature,turbidity and corruption,causing strange disease.Once the phlegm was formed in the body and accumulated to a certain range which was can't be removed,it would cover mind,block the activities of qi,stagnate the blood vessels,over ow the skin,accumulate to the tumors,or the inveterate phlegm lost its way,further causing the phlegm disease with complicated and strange clinical manifestation.The key of the diagnosis,prevention and treatment of the'phlegm disease'is understanding and grasping the clinical characteristics correctly.From three aspects of physical sign,symptom and syndrome,the article summarized and discussed the basic clinical characteristics of the'phlegm disease'in order to provide good inference to the diagnosis and prevention and treatment of the phlegm disease.
