Professor Gao Tianshu Use Of Iodine-rich Clinical Experience Of Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment Of Nodular Thyroid Swelling

Nodular goiter is the more common thyroid nodule in endocrinologist clinical. Traditional Chinese medicine doesn’t identify the disease name for nodular goiter, generally belongs to the category of "Wart disease".”Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic” is the earliest record of using seaweed to treat wart disease. As well known seaweed is rich iodine herbal which iodine contentof1951.75μg/L. However, the relationship between iodine intake and thyroid disease has been controversial, All kinds of experimental study and clinical experience indicates that the compound Chinese herbal medicinal brothof iodine in the treatment of goiter have a positive effect, but lack of epidemiological data and a large amount of scientific and standardized clinical trial evidence. At the same time, excessive iodine intake harm imprisoned the application of iodine traditional Chinese medicine; however the softening and resolving hard mass effect of iodine traditional Chinese medicineis confirmed by the ancient physicians. My teacher professor Gao Tianshu has the unique in using the rich iodine Chinese Herbal in the treatment thyroid nodule of by his yearly clinical experience and scientific research. This article mainly deals with my teacher’s experience in treating nodular goiter. My teacher takes softening and resolving hard mass therapy as the principal method, with the use of rich iodine Chinese herbal medicine for treatment character. At the same time with soothing the liver and resolving depression，regulating qi-flowing and dispelling phlegm, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis and other methods, clinical effect is remarkable. The Chinese medicine treat nodular goiter on the basis of the Chineseancient concept of the whole, but according to the major clinical manifestations of patients to treat the disease and give the traditional Chinese medicine prescription instead of iodine supplementation. Chinese medicine treatment proves to have a positive effect on patients to improve symptoms, re duce side reaction and shorten the course of disease.