Professor Li Xucheng's Experience in Treating Snoring Based on the Theory of Qi Deficiency and Stagnation
This paper summarizes Professor Li Xucheng's experience in the treatment of snoring based on the theory of qi deficiency and stagnation.Snoring is a common sleep-breathing disorder in clinical practice,which corresponds to sleep apnea syndrome in modern medicine.There is no specific drug in the treatment of snoring,which is mainly treated by continuous positive airway pressure and surgery.These methods,however,have limitations.Professor Li Xucheng believes that the pathogenesis of snoring is qi deficiency and stagnation,which leads to obstructed qi movement in the throat and eventually snoring.Qi deficiency refers to the deficiency of healthy qi,and stagnation refers to dampness,phlegm turbidity,blood stasis,dampness and heat,etc.,which are the evidence of internal deficiency and external excess.Accordingly,the combination of tonifying deficiency and removing stagnation is advocated in the treatment of snoring.