Discussion on mechanism of treating hypertension from liver based on intestinal flora
Hypertension is one of the most common cardiovascular diseases in modern clinical practice,also the main risk factor of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular complications.Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)believes that the occur-rence of this disease is closely related to the dysfunction of liver,kidney,spleen and other viscera.With the deepening of modem medicine and molecular biology research,the close relationship between intestinal flora and many cardiovascular diseases,including hypertension,has gradually been discovered and explained.However,the treatment of hypertension in TCM from Zangfu organs is only supported by pure TCM theory,and its modern scientific connotation still needs to be fur-ther clarified.Based on this,the author now explains the rationality and scientificity of treating hypertension from the liver with TCM from the perspective of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine,based on the classic literature of TCM and the results of related research on intestinal flora,in order to provide some basis and new ideas for the prevention and treatment of hypertension and for related research on the disease.