Analysis On Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome Characteristics Of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

1. Objective: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome abbreviates SARS, is a new kindof infectious disease caused by a kind of form virus of the first. The diseasehave relatively strong Infection, relatively case fatality rate. The crowdis easy to be infected. Since May 2003. 61 in—patients of SARS received TCMtreatment complementary to their current conventional medicalcare. Traditional Chinese Medicine is the first-line treatment for SARS inGuangdong. Compared with matched controls who received Western medicine alone,survivors of SARS patients treated by TCM stayed shorter in hospital andreceived less steroid, suggesting that early TCM care may be more beneficialfor patients. At present, we don't have good method to treat it. Westernmedicine treating has relatively big Side effect unavoidably and Its curativeeffect is not so satisfied. So, we treating the disease with the dialecticaltheory managing of Chinese medicine have obvious advantage and prospect. It's characteristic is to regulate according to different individuals, differentperiods, different pathology states. To study the symptom complex law of theSevere Acute Respiratory Syndrome and to master the symptom complex law ofthe Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is the base of healing solution ofChinese medicine. Because SARS is a new warm disease. We have no insufficientknowledge about its symptom complex law, it's characteristic and the influenceto patients' (especially the serious patients) prognosis rotates andreturns, To study and to master the symptom complex law of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, to formulate effective clinical healing solution, tooffer decided basis for distinguish and manage clinically. All these have theimportant meaning to promote SARS clinical curative effect, his research isto investigate the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)syndrome in severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in emergency department.2. Methods: Patients, materials and methods Access to All SARS patients inGuangdong provincial hospitals of TCM could access TCM care if the fulfilledconditions of SARS. Sixty-one SARS patients received the research. Man casewas 28 and 31 for females. Female to male ratio was nearly 1: 1. All age from21 to 56 years old. SARS clinical information collection list was used to setup a clinical presentations and four examination techniques database. (suchas sweating, tiredness, couch, fever status.) Then descriptive statisticsand cluster statistics were used to analyze the data. TCM syndromes wererecorded in 61 SARS patients in the hospital.3. Results: The mainly types of the 61 SARS patients were epidemic toxinsincursion, syndrome of both the defense and Qi phases (疫毒侵袭,卫气同病),and toxin invading in the lung and stomach, obstruction by turbid dampness(毒蕴肺胃,湿浊阻遏). In the middle Phase The mainly types were hot toxininvading in the lung(热毒壅肺), the Third Phase The mainly types were hot toxininvading in the lung, obstruction by turbid dampness (湿热毒壅肺), in the lastrecovery Phase The mainly types were Insufficient of the Qi and Yin(气阴两虚).4. Conclusion: It is difficult to draw an conclusions on the rule of TCM inthe treatment of SARS based on this small-scaled observational study. However,the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome in severeacute respiratory syndrome (SARS) did had some Dynamic evolution rule.