Department of Preventive Treatment of Disease, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200021, China
Abstract:As the internal factor that determines the course of disease, constitution has an important influence on the occurrence of disease and the formation of syndrome. In clinical practice, Professor Zhang Xiaotian often takes the three-differentiation diagnosis and treatment model of “constitution differentiation-disease differentiation-syndrome differentiation” as the basis of dispensing medicine. He believes that constitution differentiation is the source, syndrome differentiation is the root and disease differentiation is the manifestation. Chinese Herbal Paste has a mild yet lasting nourishing effect and is a good preparation formulation to tonify deficiency and treat the disease. Professor Zhang Xiaotian stresses that the formula of Herbal Paste needs the combination of “constitution differentiation-disease differentiation- syndrome differentiation”, with constitution as the priority, syndrome as the secondary and disease as the last. This paper introduces professor Zhang Xiaotian’s clinical experience in using Chinese Herbal Paste to improve constitution, and analyzes a case to provide ideas for the application of Herbal Paste in clinical practice.