Professor Yuan Bin’s experience in treating childrens’ new-long cough from“wind-phlegm”
CAO Bingxue1 YUAN Bin2
1.The First Clinical College, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210023, China; 2.Department of Pediatrics, Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210004, China
Abstract:Professor Yuan Bin inherited the teacher’s theory and made some innovations, on the basis of Professor Wang Shouchuan’s theory of hidden wind, the concept of wind-phlegm cough is put forward. Professor Yuan describes the specific symptoms of this cough. He believes that the key to the pathogenesis is the retention of wind-phlegm in the lung and the imbalance in lung qi. More phlegm and blood in the stasis mutual knot day after day. After consulting ancient and modern literature, Professor Yuan wrote new prescriptions to restore lung qi by reducing phlegm and wind with ephedra and pinellia tuber. Treatment is supplemented with activating the spleen and regulating the liver to coordinate the five internal organs and improve the condition. He attached great importance to the relationship between the lung and the orifices. A distinction between the nose and pharynx should be made, and treatment of organs and orifices should be performed at the same time for internal and external patency. He is skilled in flexible methods with a combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, though mainly in traditional Chinese medicine. Diagnosis and treatment involve both Chinese and western methods. Professor Yuan bin often attaches importance to the supplementary examination of modern medicine and often combines syndrome differentiation with disease differentiation when diagnosing disease. Professor Yuan Bin’s treatment of the disease is mainly based on traditional Chinese medicine, supplemented by western medicine, and has repeatedly achieved good results.