Clinical experience of treating hyperthyroidism by HENG Xianpei
Modern medicine mainly uses antithyroid drugs,radiation,and surgery to treat hyperthyroidism,focusing on the local thyroid gland,but the overall effect is not satisfactory.Based on many years of clinical experience,professor HENG Xianpei proposed the etiology of hyperthyroidism that involves both physical and mental aspects,the pathogenesis of co-occurring heart and liver disease,and the therapeutic approach based on the concept of the unity of heaven and man.The creation of a dual-primary and five-auxiliary treatment method,clinically divided into two main syndrome types:Heart and liver fire exuberance and heart and liver yin deficiency,and combined with five secondary syndrome types such as restlessness of the mind,liver qi stagnation,heat from qi stagnation,heat from blood stasis,and obstruction of the meridians.The clinical efficacy is significant.Combined with an clinical case,this article introduces professor HENG's above-mentioned academic thoughts on the treatment of hyperthyroidism.
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