Fecal transplant therapy had become the most effective treatment of clostridium difficile infection.It had been applied to treat more and more diseases.As early as the Eastern Jin dynasty,Zhouhou Beiji Fang documented the therapy of drinking feces to treat warm diseases.Jinzhi,a processed product of feces,was widely used in the treatment of warm diseases by ancient medical scientists,such as YE Tian-shi.As the feces drugs were difficult to manage in unified standards and were lack of systematic,in-depth research,they were used less and less.With the development of the feces transplantation therapy,a new method to treat diseases caused by alteration of intestinal flora was proposed and the role of normal flora in human body was receiving more attentions.In addition to Jinzhi directly regulated flora, which would greatly enrich the mechanism of Chinese medicine.As science progressed and human cognitive ability increased,some characteristics of TCM which were looked as ‘unscientific’ contents would be gradual revealed their scientific connotation,and service to prevent and cure diseases.
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