Clinical Studies Of Chinese Medicine Treatment Of Liver Depression And Spleen Of Chronic Cholecystitis

Cholecystitis is a cholecystital disease caused by bacterial infection or chemical stimulatus. It is one of the most common clinical diseases. This disease often comes with cholesytolithiasis. 900/c of patients with acute cholecystitis show a complication of cholesystolithiasis, which takes the second place in surgery acute abdomen. While 70% of chronic cholecystitis patients also have cholesystolithiasis. From clinical performance and process acute and chronic cholecystitis can be distinguished. In this article focusing on the research of chronic cholecystitis, acute cholecystitis is not included in this research. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) does not have a name for chronic cholecystitis. But according to clinical symptoms, chronic cholecystitis can be grouped in the 揾ypochondriac pain? 搄aundice? 揹istention due to liver disorder? 揹istention due to gall bladder disorder? 揳bdominal pain?in TCM. Many generations of doctors have achieved abundant knowledge from clinical work current Chinese medicine抯 differential diagnosis is based on their work. This disease is usually associated with stress or depression from which stagnated liver qi disturbs spleen抯 function, and overstrain, excess greasy diet, direct cold-evil attacking in Taiyin or even over abundant thinking that disable spleen and consequently cause damp-heat accumulation in middle Jiao only to disfunction gallbladder抯 ventilation. In addition, ascariasis on going also plays a part in obstructing gallbladder抯 drainage, causing bile retention and secondarily influencing on spleen and stomach function to wear out nutritional resources and block off meridian and collaterals. Symptoms of chronic cholecystitis occur in this way accordingly. Treatment routine includes selection of treatment based on the differential diagnosis, specific recipe and specific drug, acupuncture, massage 3 therapy, diet therapy and many other methods. All these research shows that treatment of chronic cholecystitis by Chinese medicine has advantages of few side effects, fast pain-killing and recurrently preventing. hi the gall-bladder disease, 70% of cholecystitis is with gallstone; the other is named no gallstone cholecystitis. Cholecystitis gallstone is the main reason in causing chronic cholecystitis. The gallstone causes the obstruction of cystic duct causing inflammatoiy reaction in gallbladder, which becomes chronic cholecystitis. Also, the chronic obstruction of cystic duct, bacterial infection, chemical factors, and parasites can all result a chronic cbolecystitis. As for treatment, western medicine still takes surgical procedure as the main treatment option. For patients not suitable for surgery, internal medicine is for substitute. But western medicine抯 treatment is not very satisfactory. The process is very long, together with many side effects, making it hard to reach the goal of long-term treatment and prevention. With regard to the above reasons, my professors owning years of clinical experience in treating chronic cholecystitis, with a combination of Chinese and Western medicine research, in the light of sage physician Zhang Zhong Jing抯 principle for treatment of 揻or the liver is sick, spleen strengthening is a must? was principally inspired by the idea of 搕reating the liver and spleen together? and made up this treatment recipe. Then in the bindi...