Professor Zhang Yongkang's Experience in Treating Chemotherapy-Induced Diar-rhea with Classic Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions from Medicinal Toxicity
Professor Zhang Yongkang's Experience in Treating Chemotherapy-Induced Diar-rhea with Classic Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions from Medicinal Toxicity
Chemotherapy-induced diarrhea(CID)is one of the adverse reactions caused by chemotherapy,with a high incidence,and it even threatens life safety.Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)has unique advantages in reducing the toxicity and enhancing the efficacy of chemotherapeutic drugs,relieving the pain,improving the quality of life,and prolon-ging the lifespan.Chemotherapeutic drugs possess medicinal toxicity,which is a special external pathogen beyond the six excesses.According to the pathogenic characteristics,different chemotherapeutic drugs can be classified into the categories of cold toxicity,heat toxicity,and cold-heat toxicity.In clinical practice,Professor Zhang Yongkang is adept at the modi-fied application of ancient TCM prescriptions and the treatment of different diseases with the same methods.He uses classi-cal TCM prescriptions to treat modern diseases with the same pathogenesis as ancient diseases.For example,he uses modi-fied Gegen Huangqin Huanglian Decoction,modified Fuzi Lizhong Decoction,and modified Wumei Pills to treat CID based on syndrome differentiation,achieving remarkable therapeutic effects.Professor Zhang's rich experience in the syndrome differentiation and treatment of CID is worth learning and promoting.
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