title: A survey of research on the treatment of asthma by invigorating blood circulation to remove blood stasis.
abstract: It has been demonstrated by a lot of clinical practice and experimental research that blood stasis is present in cases of asthma. In regard to the manifestations of asthma with blood stasis, medical doctors in our country carried out many investigations. The symptoms and signs of the disease are recognized consistently. Furthermore, they used blood rheological changes as laboratory indices to reach a more objective diagnosis. In the therapeutic aspect of asthma with blood stasis, either ancient recipes or those formulated by individual doctors have significant therapeutic effects. These are the important progress in the treatment and recognition of the pathogenic mechanisms of asthma. However, in regard to the diagnosis of asthma with blood stasis, at present there are no unified criteria. Therefore, it is necessary to formulate relatively unified diagnostic criteria and the criteria for therapeutic effect evaluation. Doubtlessly, this is of great significance in further research of the disease. In addition, it is also necessary to carry out extensive experimental research concerning the mechanisms of the recipes with the actions of improving blood circulation and removing blood stasis, especially the ancient recipes or those prescribed by individual doctors, which are scarcely based on systematic animal experimental research. These need to be further studied.
authors.affiliation: Nanjing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D018056:Hemorheology; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D019413:Qi
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal