[The application of "preventive treatment theory" in chronic airway inflammatory disease].
Bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as chronic airway inflammatory diseases, seriously threaten the health of human beings. Chinese medicine has obvious advantages in prevention and treatment of them. "Preventive treatment theory" is a sort summarization of preventive medicine in Chinese medicine. The theory is not only reflected at the disease prevention levels, also embodied in the active treatment and the rehabilitation process. It was especially deep and colorfully embodied in the prevention and treatment of chronic airway inflammatory diseases such as asthma and COPD. In this paper,clarified were the prevention and treatment targets, ways of thinking and methods in different stages of asthma and COPD from various viewpoints including prevention before disease occurrence, treating disease at disease onset, preventing the aggravation once disease occurs, and consolidation after disease occurs. We hope to improve ways of thinking and prevention and treatment levels of bronchial asthma and COPD by Chinese medicine.
Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, China. jcdong2004@126.com
Jing-Cheng
JC
Dong
Bao-Jun
BJ
Liu
Hong-Ying
HY
Zhang
D001249:Asthma / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000517:prevention & control*