Treatment of coronary microvascular dysfunction based on the five elements theory
The five elements theory discusses the inappropriate relationship between the five organs as an inherent cause of coronary microvascular dysfunction(CMD).It is proposed that illness of liver wood mother viscera affecing the child one,illness of spleen earth child viscera affecting mother one,lung gold insulting heart fire,kidney water multiplying heart fire are the specific pathogenesis of CMD.The treatment is based on the theory of five elements and the relationship between the five organs,with flexible use of treatment methods such as resolving blood stasis and activating blood circulation,tonifying the heart and spleen,resolving phlegm and dipping the lung,warming the yang and lowering the rebellion,etc.,while regulating the blood and qi in the minute collaterals of the heart and restoring orderly microcirculatory traffic in the coronary arteries,in order to treat both the symptoms and the root cause.
Coronary microvascular dysfunction(CMD)Five elements theoryEtiology and pathogenesisFive organs'relationship