Research Progress on Pathogenesis and Prevention of Hidden Hearing Loss in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Hidden hearing loss is a disease characterized by normal pure tone hearing threshold and reduced speech recogni-tion ability under noisy background.Noise exposure,drug damage and aging are the main pathogenic risk factors.Its onset is hid-den and easy to be ignored,and continuous exposure to risk factors can cause irreversible hearing loss.Currently,there is no ef-fective treatment method in clinical practice,and early prevention is the main focus.Based on the pathogenic factors and patho-genesis of implicit hearing loss,this article explored the traditional Chinese medicine pathogenesis of implicit hearing loss.It is believed that spleen deficiency and dampness stagnation,obstruction of clear orifices,deficiency of kidney and accumulation of e-vil in the ear orifices are the internal factors causing the disease,while toxic pathogens invading the ear,internal toxin retention and toxin stasis meridians are the pathological mechanisms.A summary wass also made of the research on the prevention and treatment of implicit hearing loss in recent years,providing theoretical basis and clinical experience for the study of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of implicit hearing loss.