Professor Shao Yingxin’s experience in treating thyroid nodules is differentiated from qi deficiency
ZHENG Xiuyue1 SHAO Yingxin2
1.Clinical School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Hubei Province, Wuhan 430065, China;
2.Department of Thyroid Disease, Huanggang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Hubei Province, Huanggang 438000, China
Abstract:The prevalence of thyroid nodules in Chinese adults is as high as 20%, western medicine mainly adopts surgical treatment and follow-up observation. Thyroid nodules are called gall tumor in traditional Chinese medicine. It is generally treated from the liver and spleen. It is considered that the liver is out of order due to emotional trauma, or the spleen is out of health and transportation due to improper diet, which leads to qi stagnation, phlegm coagulation and blood stasis, and obstructs the neck. The gall is treated by regulating qi and activating blood, resolving phlegm and eliminating gall. Professor Shao Yingxin believes that the main cause of this disease is congenital deficiency, namely fetal transmission, or ( and ) improper intake of iodine in the diet, and emotional but not the main cause. Due to congenital deficiency or acquired disorders caused by qi deficiency, qi deficiency can not promote the movement of qi, blood and body fluid is not smooth, resulting in the combination of qi, phlegm and blood stasis, the neck and the disease. The basic pathogenesis is qi deficiency, accumulation of phlegm and blood stasis, and the key pathogenesis is qi deficiency. Qi deficiency leads to qi stagnation, phlegm coagulation, blood stasis, and accumulation of phlegm and blood stasis, forming gall tumors. The basic syndrome type is deficiency of vital qi, phlegm and blood stasis syndrome. The treatment is tonifying qi and removing blood stasis, eliminating phlegm and dispersing stagnation. Clinically, it is proved that the treatment of gall tumors based on qi deficiency is satisfactory, which provides a new idea for the treatment of thyroid nodules and is worthy of reference and application.