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| Characteristics and predominance of TCM in treating and preventing hypertension |
| Hits 1659 Download times 2390 Received:October 12, 2011 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2012.02.17 |
| Key Words
hypertension;treatment;TCM |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | CHEN Xiao-yu | Department of Teaching, The First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China |
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| Hypertension is one of the common cardiovascular diseases,its incidence,mortality and disability rate are still high,but the awareness,treatment and control rate are low.Prevention and treatment of hypertensive disease with TCM has some characteristics,including individual treatment mode of syndrome differentiation,whole adjustment means guided by whole concept,early intervention under the guidance of "treating disease before onset" and so on.The advantages are steady and equilibrating decreasing the blood pressure and reducing the risk events;improving symptoms and enhancing the quality of life;protecting the target organs and preventing the complications;combining with Western medicine,decreasing the dose,detoxication and increasing the therapeutic effect;non-drug therapy and effective comprehensive intervention. |
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