The Literature Investigation Of Ephedra-almond-licorice-gypsum Supplement Broth's Treatment Of Bronchial Asthma

Bronchial asthma is a common disease in internal medicine, which has an increasing incidence rate year by year. Ephedra almond licorice gypsum broth((abbreviation of"EALC") is commonly used for the treatment of Bronchial asthma in modern clinic. This topic searched and collected document information about EALC's treatmeat of asthma with bibliography and literature ways, furthermore sorted and analyzed these information. Ultimately, this topic summarized the academic thinking about EALC's treatmeat of asthma to get the valuable conclusions to guide the modern clinic.Ephedra almond licorice gypsum broth((abbreviation of"EALC"), derived from Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Zhang zhongjing considered that the prescription and symptom-complex belonged to deteriorated case of TaiYang, the property of the disease was mostly interior syndrome,mainly to internal, with or without exterior syndrome. It has been placed to diaphoretic recipe, internal and external relieving recipe and internal clearing recipe. From differentiation of symptoms and signs it belong to deteriorated cases, The effectiveness is to clear exterior, co-work with diaphoresis relieving superficies.According to the ancient and modern documents, we found that the etiological factor and pathogenesis were very complicated, including the familial inheritance factor,exogenous evil invading lung to provoke insidious phlegm, phlegm and stagnant blood incubating in lung, aboundant wind and phlegm blockage, asthenia of healthy energy being basic and renal deficiency being mastering, disorder of movement of QI, FU QI being obstructed, damp toxin trouble, et al. Meanwhile the stagnate phlegm can hide in lung and became the root of asthma, which can influence the normal function of lung ,spleen and kidney. On the basis of modern medicine,Asthma is a chronic airway inflammation involed by many cells especially including mast cells, eosinophile granulocytes,T leukomonocytes,with tremendous relationship with the organism autochthonous immunity. The symptom of asthma by the treatment of EALC is abundant heat obstructed in the lung, mainly belongs to the category of pyretic syndrome and sthenia syndrome. The clinical diadynamic criteria include fervescence and cough with asthma, flaring of nares, dry mouth, restlessness, dry stool,yellow urine,red or purple-red tongue, yellowish coating or yellowish and greasy tongue coating,yellowish sputum, floating rapid pulse or string slippery pulse. Based on the clinical symptom, we usually apply the modified EALC by adding the honeysuckle flower , heartleaf houttuynia herb, fritillariae tuber, white mulberry root bark, loquat leaf, hogfennel root etc.In the modern research, EALC is mainly used for of preventing cough, relieving asthma,resisting viruses, defending allergy, regulating immunity, correcting imbalance of Th1/Th2 and decreasing the production and releasing of mediators of inflammation, meanwhile , it can improve the pathological variation of lung and bronchopathy.