Professor Xu Yanling 's Experience In Treating Idiopathic Pulmonary Interstitial Fibrosis With Traditional Chinese Medicine

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a kind of disease prevalence in recent years, increasing year by year, has gradually become a common disease and frequently encountered disease of respiratory system disease, morbidity and mortality are rising trend. IPF occurs in middle-age males than females. The main clinical manifestations were cough, expectoration, progressive exertional dyspnea. Velcro rale can be heard near the bottom of the lung and the pleural in end-inspiratory.Purple lips and acropachy can be seen in the late stage of this disease. Physical and chemical examination of IPF contains pulmonary imaging examination, pulmonary function test, arterial blood gas analysis, etc. Pulmonary imaging examination is mainly dominated by diffuse lesions of lung, which is a grid or grinding glass like change; Pulmonary function tests were mainly manifested in the restrictive ventilation disturbance and the decrease of the diffusion function; Arterial blood gas analysis was the most frequently seen in patients with hypoxia.Because of the lingering illness, Modern medicine has no significant effect on the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and lead to poor recovery rate and poor prognosis. In the treatment of IPF, however, Traditional Chinese medicine designed to alleviate clinical symptoms and delay the disease process. The clinical curative effect is considerable. TCM has the very big superiority and the potential in the treatment of IPF.My teacher,Professor Xu Yanling, is the excellent traditional Chinese medicine clinical talents in the department of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine. She engaged in medical and research work in respiratory department of Internal Medicine for 30 years. She is especially good at combine traditional Chinese medicine with Western medicine in treating respiratory diseases with theoretical knowledge and rich clinical experience.My teacher thinks that this disease can belongs to the category of "fei-wei", "pulmonary arthralgia", "asthma" and "the lung distension". Especially it is more appropriate to take it as "fei-wei".This disease belongs to the syndrome of the deficiency. Six exogenous pathogenic factors, improper diet, emotional disorders and fatigue lead to phlegm and blood stasis, the consumption of Qi and Yin, Jin and Gas big injury. Lungs gave is weak and useless because of failing to nourish. Later, it would be happen of spleen, stomach, kidney and other organs failure. My teacher treats the disease with the way of getting rid of evils, protecting the righteousness in acute episode and benefiting viscera, regulating of qi and blood in remission stage. This article do a brief analysis of the clinical experience of Professor XuYanling in the treatment of IPF by summing up the name of disease, etiology and pathogenesis, treatment experience, self nursing cases for reference.