Treatment of toxic chronic hepatitis by TCM classification

Zhang Liangchen, deputy chief physician of Dongcheng traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, went on to say: Western medicine is classified by hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and other viruses, while traditional Chinese medicine is divided into damp-heat of liver and gallbladder, stagnation of liver and spleen, yang deficiency of spleen and kidney, stasis of veins, yin deficiency of liver and kidney, etc. clinically, it is mostly viral chronic hepatitis of liver-gallbladder damp-heat and liver stagnation and spleen deficiency. Hepatitis infection is well known, in reality, there are no clinical symptoms but carry the virus phenomenon, traditional Chinese medicine is called positive deficiency evil love type.

In terms of symptoms, patients with viral chronic hepatitis with right distension pain, nausea, bitter mouth, epigastric fullness, jaundice or no jaundice, but yellow red urine, yellow and greasy tongue coating, sticky and smelly stool, etc., belong to the type of damp-heat of liver and gallbladder. If the ribs are full, the complexion is yellow, the mouth is light and tasteless, the tongue is light, the moss is white, the appetite is poor, the stool is thin, the spirit is depressed, and the epigastric distension and abdominal distension is the type of liver depression and spleen deficiency.

Jaundice hepatitis

If it is dizziness and tinnitus, five heart irritation and heat, dry eyes, dry mouth, sore waist and knees, five heart heat, red tongue, thin fluid, insomnia and more dreams, or cracks, less menstruation or amenorrhea, it is the type of yin deficiency of liver and kidney; if you fear cold and like warmth, eat less loose stools, less cold pain in the waist and knees, indigestion, slipping incontinence, light fat tongue and edema of lower extremities, it is the type of spleen and kidney yang deficiency. If the complexion is dark, hepatosplenomegaly is hard, erythema, liver palm, spider nevus, female menstrual abdominal pain, dark purple tongue, and even ecchymosis, it is chronic hepatitis with blood stasis and collaterals obstruction.

Zhang Liangchen said: Western medicine is "the disease that treats people", while traditional Chinese medicine is "the person who treats diseases". That is, Western medicine is the symptom of treatment, traditional Chinese medicine for the classification of chronic viral hepatitis, focusing on the treatment of people to drive disease qi and support vital qi. Therefore, in the treatment of viral chronic hepatitis, traditional Chinese medicine also pays great attention to drug therapy, dietotherapy, psychology that is emotion and exercise, combined with viral chronic hepatitis easy to repeat and other characteristics, comprehensive, overall treatment.

Viral hepatitis B

Viral chronic hepatitis is easy to damage liver function, so it is best to use the combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine to treat various types of viral chronic hepatitis with complementary advantages, and give full play to the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, such as protecting liver, lowering enzyme and retreating jaundice, psychological dredging and regulating emotion, etc. let the antiviral treatment of western medicine make up for the deficiency of expelling pathogens in traditional Chinese medicine, which can quickly reduce liver inflammation and control the development of the disease. In the antiviral treatment of western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is still needed to protect the liver and lower enzymes, which can effectively inhibit the virus.

TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment throughout the treatment of various types of viral chronic hepatitis is always a necessity, and there have long been prescriptions of licorice, Schisandra chinensis, and some compound proprietary Chinese medicines, which are effective in protecting liver and lowering enzymes. It has become a traditional Chinese medicine in traditional Chinese and western medicine for the treatment of viral chronic hepatitis. Even in the anti-fibrosis treatment of viral chronic hepatitis, the effect of traditional Chinese medicine on reversing liver fibrosis has been recognized. If improper treatment, the development of liver cirrhosis, traditional Chinese and western medicine will be difficult to reverse, but traditional Chinese medicine treatment can still improve the quality of life of patients and bring a better prognosis.