Analysis of etiology and pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis with traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine
Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune demyelinating disease of the central nervous system,which is studied mostly in Western medicine.In recent years,traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)has gradually deepened understanding of multiple sclerosis,and TCM scholars mostly explain the pathogenesis of this disease from the aspects of damp heat,latent toxin,and yang deficiency in governor vessel and kidney.The symptoms,etiology and pathogenesis of the disease have been described in many ancient books,but they are scattered and lack systematic integration.Therefore,based on the analysis and collation of ancient Chinese medicine books related to multiple sclerosis,and referring to the theory of modern Western medicine research,the paper systematically summarizes and expounds its etiology and pathogenesis.The pathogenesis of the disease is summarized as deficiency of healthy qi,lung heat scorching lobe,latent remnant toxin,and prolonged heat damaging yin.And the etiology is disharmony between the lung and kidney,remnant pathogenic factors failing to be eliminated,and the combination of internal and external pathogenic factors resulting in incomplete recovery from the disease.This paper is to enrich the connotation of TCM theory of multiple sclerosis and provide new ideas for the modern clinical diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis.
multiple sclerosisetiology and pathogenesistraditional Chinese medicinewestern medicine