Advances in Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis and Treatment of Cough Variant Asthma
By sorting out the document related to TCM diagnosis and treatment of CVA in the recent years,numerous studies demonstrated that TCM showed its unique advantages in the treatment of CVA,with definite curative effects,low side effects,it could effectively alleviate clinical symptoms,and improve the patients'lung function.However,some problems still existed,currently,the unified TCM disease name and syndrome differentiation system is lacking in the TCM therapy of CVA,most of the doctors treated CVA with the special prescription based on their clinical experience,therefore,a standard is lacking in TCM diagnosis,syndromes,the prescription and medicines for CVA;the next,there are fewer studies related to the mechanism of TCM in the treatment of CVA;most of the clinical studies launched today are small-sample clinical observations.In the future,we need to further standardise the name and syndrome standards of CVA,and expand the therapeutic thinking of CVA.