Professor Chen Min The Kidney Act Experience For The Treatment Of Senile Dementia

Senile dementia, with another name-Alzheimer’s disease(AD), is adegenerative disease of mental function of cranial nerve, with thecharacteristics of progressive memory impairment, cognitive impairment andpersonality changes,belong to the category of "dementia disease","vecordiasyndrome","amnesia", and "consumptive disease". As the aging population growing,senile dementia has become an increasingly serious medical issues and socialissues, and has attracted more and more attention and research. Breakthroughprogresses have not been made in the understanding and the treatment with modernmedicine for senile dementia etiology pathogenesis. Traditional Chinesemedicine（TCM）has an unique understanding about the basic pathological of thisdisease. It argues that this disease locates in brain, the mentality house andthe marrow sea, which is in close relationship with kidney. It represents thecombination of asthenia syndrome and sthenic syndrome. The asthenia syndromemanifests itself as disability of supply to brain resulting from kidney essenceasthenia, Insufficient production of marrow due to age；Sthenic syndrome is braindisturbance result from phlegm, blood stasis and other pathogeny. As atraditional Chinese medicine commonly used therapeutic method, tonifying thekidney in senile dementia treatment plays an important role. With the principleof individual-concerned, this method can be used with the traditional Chinesemedicine of tonifying kidney as the main component. Activating blood and removingstasis, dispelling phlegm and eliminating dampness should been given evenconsideration for reinforcement and elimination, and combination of branch androot. In clinical, it often play a good effect, so patients with dementia symptomsimproved, fully embodying the Chinese medicine treating senile dementia withcharacteristics and advantages.