Professor LI Naigeng's application of the theory of"protecting yang and benefiting yin"in the treatment of pediatric diseases:four case studies
Children's constitutions are characterized by young yin and young yang,and their internal organs are delicate.In clinical practice,patients'insufficiency of qi and yin is often caused by"excessive expulsion of the evils","taking cold food or beverages after being exposed to coldness","over-consumption of fatty,sugary,starchy,and spicy foods","born with poor health","treatment failure or misuse","long-standing illnesses",and misuse of antibiotics and hormones,and so on.Professor LI Naigeng believes that such children cannot achieve therapeutic effects solely by relying on"medication based on dispelling the evils".Moreover,if the dispelling of the evils is too much,it is more likely to harm the patients'constitution.Therefore,the theory of"protecting yang and benefiting yin"should be applied for treatment.The essence of the theory is to adjust its bias in order to better support the posi-tive and eliminate the evil.Professor Li is good at using the theory of"protecting yang and benefiting yin"to treat pediatric diseases.According to this theory,prescriptions and drugs have achieved good clinical effects.This paper mainly introduces four cases of professor LI naigeng's application of the theoryin the treatment of children's"swea-ting disease,abdominal pain,purpura,cough and other diseases.Professor LI,in view of the theory of yin and yang mutual root,yin deficiency lead to yang deficiency,the coupling is difficult to be dense,so modified Yupingfeng San(玉 屏 风散)is used to benefit the qi and nourish the yin,consolidate the surface convergence of sweating combined with the anti-perspiratory external convergence of yin to stop sweating,submerged in the yang and fixed astringent treatment of paediatric sweating disease.For pediatric abdominal pain caused by insufficient qi and blood,professor LI often gave Huangqi Jianzhong Tang(黄芪建中汤)to warm the spleen,replenish qi and benefit blood.Professor LI believed that pediatric allergic purpura can be easily converted from solid to deficiency over a long period of time,resulting in deficiency of qi and yin,and prolonged illness and kidney can lead to deficiency of spleen and kid-ney,and floating yang upwards,so the treatment should be to benefit qi,warm up the kidney and submerge the yang into yin,and the formula modified Yougui Wan(右归丸)is used.Children's prolonged cough is easy to consume qi and hurt yin,the treatment should benefit qi and nourish yin,resolve phlegm and stop cough,professor Li often gave the prescription of modified Huangqi Zhikeyin(黄芪止嗽饮),the formula is heavy use of astragalus,the thera-peutic effect is remarkable.
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