Treatment of Motor Neuron Disease Based on the Academic Thought of"Thinning And Regulating Qi Machine"
motor neuron disease(MND)is a kind of chronic progressive degenerative neurological disease which involves the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord,the motor neurons of the brain stem and the vertebral tract.There is no special treatment in Western medicine,and it is a terminal disease in neurology.Chinese medical master Zhang Zhen believes that this disease can belong to the category of Chinese medicine"flascid syndrome",the cause of the disease is the liver,spleen and kidney deficien-cy,treatment should focus on tonifying the kidney and spleen,supplemented by Shutiao liver-qi,and based on the characteristics of the disease and"Shutiao Qi machine"thought,self-designed Shutiao Zengli decoction.Radix bupleurum,Radix Astragalus,Radix pseudostellariae,Angelica sinensis,Ligusticum Chuanxiong,horny medium,Fructus officinalis,Morbus officinalis,Po-ria,white art,Chinese yam,peppermint and licorice were used in the whole recipe,which provided a new idea and method for the treatment of motor neurone disease.
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