Abstract:Vertigo is one of the common clinical symptoms and can be seen in many diseases. Zhang Xichun, based on the viewpoint of doctors in the past dynasties, learned and summarized the experience of predecessors, and put forward new ideas for the understanding and treatment of vertigo. Based on Records of Chinese Medicine with Reference to Western Medicine, this paper discusses Zhang Xichun’s academic characteristics in the treatment of vertigo. It is found that the etiology of Zhang Xichun’s treatment of vertigo starts from excess and deficiency, and deficiency syndrome is divided into qi-deficiency, blood-deficiency, and yin deficiency leading to vertigo. The excess syndrome are mostly caused by exogenous wind-cold and phlegm-dampness, the disease location is closely related to the liver, the pathogenesis involves the up-rushing of qi and the non-return of fire. Treatment of drugs to study drug properties, make good use of cold, tonifying, convergence, sedimentation, and other drugs. There are many innovations in the prescription, the creation of Zhengan Xifeng Decoction, Jianling Decoction, Litan Decoction, and other treatment of vertigo, against the blind use of Buyang Huanwu Decoction. Zhang Xichun enriched the diagnosis and treatment methods of vertigo, formed a complete ideological system, promoted the contention and development of the academic thought of vertigo. His academic ideas have important guiding significance for the treatment of vertigo today.
孙兴甲 王洋 王卉 刘坤. 张锡纯辨治眩晕学术思想探析[J]. 中国医药导报, 2023, 20(36): 142-146,150.
SUN Xingjia WANG Yang WANG Hui LIU Kun. Analysis of Zhang Xichun’s academic thoughts on the treatment of vertigo. 中国医药导报, 2023, 20(36): 142-146,150.