Zuo Xinhe’s Experience of commonly used triplet herbs in the treatment of thyroid nodules#br#
WANG Xiaolu1 ZUO Xinhe2,3 ZHAO Yong3 XIE Min3 FU Chang3
1.Clinical College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Hubei Province, Wuhan 430061, China;
2.the First Clinical College, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Hubei Province, Wuhan 430061, China;
3.Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Diseases, Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hubei Province, Wuhan 430074, China
Abstract:Professor Zuo Xinhe has been engaged in the clinical, teaching, and scientific research of thyroid disease for many years. Professor Zuo thinks that thyroid disease results from emotional dysfunction, qi stagnation, spittoon coagulation, stasis and stagnant, wet obstruction as the standard, mainly liver and spleen lesions. Triplet herbs is a drug group between single medicine and prescription agent, composes of three traditional Chinese medicine, and compatibility of drugs has profound significance. Professor Zuo uses triplet herbs opportunely when treating thyroid nodule in clinic, and listes 11 pairs of commonly used triplet herbs, such as soothing liver and regulating qi, breaking qi and releasing stagnation, cleaning phlegm and dissipating bind, resolving phlegm and dissipating bind, breaking blood to move stasis, breaking blood and moving qi, fortifying the spleen and disinhibiting water, fortifying the spleen and resolving phlegm, softening hardness and dissipating bind, replenishing qi and enriching yin, removing toxin and dissipating bind. This paper summarizes the characteristics of triplet herbs compatibility of Professo Zuo in the treatment of thyroid nodules for reference.