Professor Wang Dong 's Experience In Treating Goiter

Goiter is a benign thyroid epithelial hyperplasia, the formation of goiter,thyroid gland is a common and frequently occurring disease. Most of patientswith symptoms, not often found in physical examination or and his family goiter.If you have symptoms, generally for the neck coarsens, consciously tight collar,neck discomfort. When the swelling significantly, may be oppressed trachea,esophagus, leading to breathing disorders, difficulty swallowing. Few thingscould be laryngeal recurrent nerve compression, and cause hoarseness. Westernmedicine thinks the reason of endemic goiter with iodine deficiency and iodineexcess, sporadic goiter complicated reasons. Western medicine mainly includeoral drugs,131I therapy, surgical treatment, thyroid puncture injection therapy,but side effects, high recurrence rate, operation not easily accepted by patients.According to its neck swelling performance, it belongs to “gall” categoryof traditional Chinese medicine. Has a long history of traditional Chinesemedicine understanding of gall, think of blood stasis and qi stagnation, TanNing,indicates anterior portion is its pathogenesis.Wang Dong has been engaged inclinical endocrinology research work for more than ten years, has accumulatedrich clinical experience, to a good use of traditional Chinese medicine treatmentof the disease and a variety of symptoms associated with, have their own opinionsand experience unique to this disease. According to Professor Wang Dong, thecause of goiter, classification and treatment of goiter, achieved good clinicaleffect, we love to experience the understanding and treatment of the diseaseto do the following summary.