Professor Li Dexin 's Experience In Treating Arrhythmia By Invigorating The Spleen And Stomach

In recent years, with the rapid development of social economy, improvementof people’ s living standard, increasing working pressure, and the aging ofpopulation, the incidence of cardiovascular disease was on an upward trend，and the age of onset was on a downsides. Cardiac arrhythmia is one of commonclinical cardiovascular diseases. It could attack alone or result from many kindsof heart diseases and other organs’ diseases, and it would appear at each stageof the disease process.Cardiac arrhythmia refers to the anomaly of impulse the heart rate and rhythm,the original location, conduction sequence and velocity. Depending on thevarious original locations, it can be divided into: sinus arrhythmia, atriumarrhythmia, atrio-ventricular arrhythmia, ventricular arrhythmia, etc. It canalso be classified as the impulse conduction abnormity and the impulse formationabnormity according to the different pathogenesis. Its clinical manifestationsdepend on hemodynamic effect influenced by abnormal heart rate and rhythm.It belongs to ‘palpitation’ category in Traditional Chinese Medicine,which pathological changes are the imbalance of qi, blood, yin, yang of heart,and phlegm, retained fluid, blood stasis, fire harassing the heart. The locationof this disease is in the heart, also related to spleen and stomach, lung, liver,kidney, especially the spleen and stomach. Spleen, the foundation of acquirement,could govern transportation and transformation, produce qi and blood. Stomach,the reservoir of water and food, could govern reception and decomposition. Spleengoverning rise of the clear and stomach governing descent of the turbid, thesetwo could regular the qi of middle energizer, which is the hub of qi movementof whole body. The heart and spleen, is the mother-child or earth-fire dependent,qi-blood related and meridian-collateral connected viscera. Spleen disease could cause qi and blood deficiency then become lack of heart nourishment, orphlegm-dampness disturb the heart spirit, or qi deficiency and blood stasis thenlead to inanition of heart vessels. Fortified spleen would fulfill qi and blood,become normal govern and control, fluid transport and transform normally withoutstagnation and retention. So heart gets its nourish, spirit gets its guard.So Professor Li usually proceed with spleen and stomach to treat cardiacarrhythmia. Regulate spleen and stomach to nourish heart. The tonified spleenqi would effect the heart. This reflects the TCM quintessence of holism concept,treatment targeting root causes and resolving both the current problems and rootcauses.