Professor Zhang Lan Treatment Experience Of Subacute Thyroiditis

Subacute thyroiditis (SAT) also known as granulomatous thyroiditis ormacrophages thyroiditis. Traditional medicine thought its etiological factorsand pathogenesis mainly is a wind temperature, hot passengers in the lung andstomach, liver and stomach in the heat accumulation on backwater, phlegmretention, so that Qi and blood stagnation, depression and of heat due to thedisease. Modern medicine thinks that this disease causes related to viralinfections, in the pathogenesis of this disease has a history of upperrespiratory infection. Typical clinical manifestations, more rapid onset, fever,chills, and accompanied by cold, loss of appetite and fatigue and other symptoms.The most characteristic manifestations of thyroid site pain and tenderness,often to the ears, under the jaw or neck, radiation, increased pain when chewingand swallowing. Serious person can have hoarseness, dyspnea, dysphagia. Fewpatients may present with chills, fever, local pain, throbbing pain and purulentpus into, can appear after fluctuation. Western medicine often used intravenousor oral corticosteroids and nonsteroidal drugs approach. Compared to westernmedicine single treatments, while Chinese medicine shows obviouscharacteristics of Mentor professor Zhang Lan according to the basic theory oftraditional Chinese medicine combined with years of clinical experience: theonset of subacute thyroiditis is as much as the long depression emotionaldiscomfort, together with ferrite Qi, Wei table is not solid, heat toxin takeadvantage of a weak point, toxic heat retention, blood, phlegm qi4stasis in theneck caused by. Therefore, heat, phlegm, blood stasis is the mechanism of thisdisease is crucial, disease in liver and spleen, initial stage is related withlung. The clinical and divides it into three syndromes, i.e. heat phlegm, qistagnation and phlegm stagnation type, phlegm and blood stasis. On the importanceof heat treatment at the same time from regulating spleen to start, combinedwith patient symptoms and the tongue, pulse condition, flexible differentiation, herbal prescription, obvious effect.Show the Chinese medicine treatment of thedisease characteristics and advantages...