Experience of XIANG Nan in differentiating and treating hyperthyroidism from toxicity
Hyperthyroidism is a common endocrine disease,which belongs to'gall disease'in Chinese medicine.In the course of many years of clinical diagnosis and treatment,professor XIANG Nan found that patients with hyperthyroidism often exhibit varying degrees of'toxin'manifestations.Based on the theory of toxin,she proposed to treat hyperthyroidism from toxin.Professor XIANG Nan believes that toxin is an important part of the pathogenesis of hyperthyroidism and is present throughout the course of the disease.The interaction of fire toxin,phlegm toxin and blood stasis toxin is the core of the pathogenesis of hyperthyroidism.In terms of treatment,different therapies are adopted according to the different clinical manifestations caused by toxin,such as clearing heat and purging fire to detoxify,eliminating phlegm and removing blood stasis to detoxify,benefiting qi and nourishing yin to detoxify,or nourishing yin and depressing fire to detoxify,observing the pathogenesis,using drugs based on syndrome differentiation,so that the toxin can be removed,the vital qi can be restored,and the yin and yang can be balanced,resulting in remarkable clinical effect.
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