Clinical experience of purging lung and promoting diuresis method in the treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy
Professor XU Xinru,a famous national traditional Chinese medicine doctor,takes the lead in proposing that qi deficiency and water stagnation is an important cause of heart failure,and the method of purging lung and promoting water is an important treatment for heart failure with qi deficiency and water stagnation syndrome.She establishes a Xinshuai Mixture with the effect of'purging lung and promoting water'which has achieved good clinical effect.Professor LIU Hongxu inherites professor XU's academic thought on the treatment of chronic heart failure by purging lung and promoting diuresis,and adaptes the treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy based on the Xinshuai Mixture.According to the different stages of heart failure in dilated cardiomyopathy,combine with the treatment methods such as replenishing qi,warming yang,activating blood circulation,removing blood stasis,etc.obtain excellent curative effects,can effectively relieve the clinical symptoms of patients,improve the quality of life,and have the effect of inhibiting ventricular remodeling and improving cardiac function alone or in combination with conventional Western medicine.