title: TCM diet therapy for bronchial asthma.
abstract: Bronchial asthma is a disease with reversible tracheospasm and tracheostenosis due to excessively increased tracheal-bronchial reactivity induced by sensitinogen or non-sensitinogen. Although its etiology is complicated, the disease is generally caused by internal injury resulting from accumulation of phlegm in the lungs, damage to the spleen by improper diet and impairment of the kidneys by overstrain and excessive coitus; or it can be caused by six exogenous pathogenic factors, with obstruction of the airways by phlegm and upward adverse flow of the lung-qi. TCM usually categorizes the disease into the following 3 types: invasion of the lungs by wind and cold, stagnation of phlegm and heat in the lungs, and deficiency of the kidneys and lungs, which should be respectively treated by promoting the dispersing function of the lungs and expelling the cold, clearing away heat to resolve phlegm, and nourishing the kidneys to improve respiration.
authors.affiliation: China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.
authors.forename: Zi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Deng
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000178:diet therapy* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000517:prevention & control; D018752:Diet, Fat-Restricted; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015444:Exercise; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000187:drug effects / Q000503:physiopathology; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D008903:Minerals / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019413:Qi; D014815:Vitamins / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D008903:Minerals; D014815:Vitamins