Experience in the treatment of melasma based on'heart governing the exterior'theory
Melasma is one of the most clinically common beauty-damaging disorders.Despite multiple treatment options available in Western medicine,no satisfactory therapeutic effect has been obtained.Based on the'heart governing the exterior'theory,professor DUAN Qu emphasizes the significance of utilizing the governing,nourishing,warming,and skin-moistening functions of the heart spirit,heart blood,heart yang,and heart fluids,respectively,in the treatment of melasma from the four perspectives of'heart spirit-blood vessels-heart yang-heart fluids'.The regulation of the heart is effected with the balance among the five zang-organs simultaneously maintained throughout the whole process of treatment,where facial appearance is nourished through mental activities with medicinals and formulas under the guidance of man-nature unity,as well as the Ying-nutrients and Wei-defence are regulated and harmonized to expel pathogens.By combining the theory with clinical practice,favorable therapeutic effects have been obtained,which not only represents the inheritance and expansion of classical theories,but has cast a new light on the clinical treatment of melasma.
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