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| Research progress on treatment of diabetic foot by traditional Chinese medicine |
| Hits 1714 Download times 1422 Received:January 23, 2017 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2017.07.19 |
| Key Words
diabetic foot;traditional Chinese medicine;syndrome differentiation and treatment;external therapy |
| Author Name | Affiliation | E-mail | | XIANG Ping-ping | Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chineese Medicine, Nanjing 210028, China | | | LIU Ke-mian | Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chineese Medicine, Nanjing 210028, China | | | LIU Chao | Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chineese Medicine, Nanjing 210028, China | liuchao@nfmcn.com |
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| Diabetic foot (DF) is one of the most severe chronic complications of diabetes mellitus. It not only decreases the patient's quality of life but also brings huge financial and social burden. It is well known that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has great advantage in treating DF than western medicine. The TCM theory believes that the congenital deficiency, irregular diet, internal injury of emotion, unbalanced working and resting, tumble injury lead to the occurrence of DF. The pathogenesis relates to deficiency of qi and yin, stagnation of qi and blood stasis, choroids blood stasis, dampness-heat toxicity, yang deficiency of spleen and kidney and so on. The internal therapies focus on syndrome differentiation and treatment, classical and special prescription, and single medicine. The external therapies include acupoint sticking therapy,debridement therapy, steaming and washing therapy, moxibustion and acupuncture therapy, etc. All of these therapies receive satisfactory effects. |
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