The characteristics of fluid retention in chronic heart failure and its treatment based on sanjiao theory
WU Yuehua
Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Liaoning Province, Shenyang 110034, China
Abstract:Fluid retention is the symptom of chronic heart failure and the variable factor in the course of the disease. Because the basic etiology and clinical stage of heart failure are different, its clinical symptoms and syndrome characteristics are different, which has become a difficult point in the treatment of chronic heart failure. According to the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, this paper expounds the formation mechanism and evolvement rule of fluid retention in the chronic heart failure, analyzes the characteristics of fluid retention in the different causes of heart failure and the syndrome characteristics of sanjiao of fluid retention in different clinical stages, discusses the basic treatment of fluid retention in chronic heart failure, and put forward the treatment principle of sanjiao and the choosing points of representative prescriptions, which has a positive theoretical significance and clinical practical value for the treatment based on syndrome differentiation of fluid retention in chronic heart failure.
武跃华. 慢性心力衰竭中水饮的特征与三焦论治[J]. 中国医药导报, 2020, 17(10): 134-137.
WU Yuehua. The characteristics of fluid retention in chronic heart failure and its treatment based on sanjiao theory. 中国医药导报, 2020, 17(10): 134-137.