Treatment of nodular goiter based on “dimple corresponding”
LI Xin′ai1 QI Shuo2 CHEN Xiaoheng2 LI Zhe2 LI Huilong2 DING zhiguo2 YANG Yapeng2
1.The First Clinical Medical College, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100101, China;
2.Department of Goiter, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700, China
Abstract:Nodular goiter in traditional Chinese medicine is called “gall”. It is traditionally believed that the pathogenesis of this disease is based on qi stagnation, syndrome of intermingled phlegm and blood stasis is main pathogenesis. For the disease syndrome differentiation, experts and scholars in different areas have different opinions. However, this disease has its own law of occurrence, development and evolution. On the basis of deficiency of vital qi and dysfunction of Zang Fu organs, qi stagnation, phlegm coagulation and blood stasis occur. Thyroid diseases often involve multiple systems in the whole body, that is, the disease is located in the thyroid gland, involving multiple systems, and the thyroid gland is integrated with the whole body, that is, “dimple corresponding”. This paper will start from the pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, treatment prescriptions, expounds the academic thought of “dimple corresponding” theory in the treatment of nodular goiter.