Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2016;22(28):4134-4137

doi:10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2016.28.037

Research progress of TCM external therapy in hepatic encephalopathy

Weiwei LOU 1 ; Yuping XU ; Yali ZHANG

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Keywords

Hepatic encephalopathy; Nursing; TCM external therapy; Review

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

This article summarized from 4 aspects which includes the definition, etiology and pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy and traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM ) external therapy, and put forward the characteristics of TCM nursing with simple operation, good curative effect and little side effects, but at the same time, it also had shortcomings such as little study samples, unclear long-term effect etc. So the application of design and optimization in the TCM clinical nursing operation will be the problem that should be solved.