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Experience of invigorating the spleen and lung on treating respiratory muscle fatigue of COPD |
Hits 1664 Download times 1921 Received:August 28, 2010 |
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DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1673-9043.2010.04.05 |
Key Words
the syndrome of dyspnea;chronic obstructive pulmonary;invigorating the spleen and reinforcing the lung |
Author Name | Affiliation | LIN Xuan-ling | 广东省中医医院芳村分院 510370 | ZHONG Liang-huan | The First Hospital Affiliated to Guangzhou University of TCM, Guangzhou 510405, China | LIU Xiao-hong | The First Hospital Affiliated to Guangzhou University of TCM, Guangzhou 510405, China |
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Abstract
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The fatigue of respiratory muscle can occur in all the process of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD),including the onset,development and death and was one of important factors causing the symptom of dyspnea with rapid and short breath and some other complaint.The therapy that focused on the lung and kidney sometimes could not obtain a satisfactory curative effect.The spleen could nourish the muscle and the fatigue of respiratory muscle of COPD can be induced by deficiency of spleen QI and insufficient supply of nutrition.At the same time spleen was the center of five organs.If spleen was in good health other organs could get the nutrition from the essence acquired after birth.Therefore,when meeting a patient with the syndrome of dyspnea induced by the fatigue of respiratory muscle the treating should addressed on the spleen and unexpected satisfactory effect could be obtained. |
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