An overview of research on the treatment of carotid atherosclerosis in TCM
Carotid atherosclerosis(CAS)is a common chronic disease,and the main pathological factor of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.It is of great significance to prevent and reverse the course of CAS.At present,Western medicine mainly treats this disease by lowering blood lipid,stabilizing plaque and resisting platelet aggregation in clinic,which usually causes obvious adverse reactions.The prevention and treatment effect is often not desired.Traditional Chinese medicine has good practice foundation and application prospect in preventing and treating CAS.Traditional Chinese medicine has omni-directional and multi-target action characteristics in clinical treatment,which can act on all stages and links of atherosclerosis,and has the advantages of good curative effects and adverse reactions.In traditional Chinese medicine,CAS is considered to be the syndrome of deficiency and excess.The basic pathogenesis of CAS is'deficiency,blood stasis,phlegm and fire',which leads to the obstruction of blood collaterals.The unfavorable treatments mainly include promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis,tonifying deficiency and purging excess,and eliminating phlegm and eliminating turbidity,which can effectively regulate blood lipid,improve vascular endothelial function,reduce inflammatory reaction,delay plaque evolvement and even reverse plaque.Traditional Chinese medicine moxibustion,acupoint application and other special therapies are important clinical adjuvant treatments,which can effectively delay plaque evolvement,relieve clinical symptoms and improve patients'lives.At present,there are still some problems to be solved.For example,there are few studies on the mechanism of preventing CAS in traditional Chinese medicine.In the future,we should expand the sample size and further study.In recent years,traditional Chinese medicine plays an increasingly important role in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases in China.Many experts and scholars have done a lot of research on the prevention and treatment of carotid atherosclerosis in traditional Chinese medicine.The author consulted the literature in recent 15 years and summarized the research progress of prevention and treatment of CAS by traditional Chinese medicine characteristic therapy in order to expand new ideas for the clinical prevention and treatment of CAS.
Traditional Chinese medicineCarotid arteriosclerosisCharacteristic therapyResearch progress
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