Professor Chen Min Experience Senile Coronary Heart Disease

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a kind of disease that is dramaticallyharmful to physical health of the human beings, also, is one of the commondiseases in the aged. CHD belongs to the category of precordial pain with chest discomfort in traditional Chinese medicine. My supervisor professor Chen Min has been devoted to combining traditional Chinese and western medicine clinical studying for more than20years. Professor Chen thinks that thecharacteristics of pathogeneses in CHD in the aged are more deficiency andmore stagnation, summarizes the clinical characteristics and symptoms in the aged with CHD and dose the treatment based on syndrome differentiation according to the characteristics of pathogeneses and clinical symptoms. Professor Chen divides CHD in the aged into five syndromes:1. qi and yin deficiency and blood stasis syndrome;2. phlegm and blood stasis syndrome;3. blood stasis due to qi deficiency syndrome;4. heart and kidney yang deficiency syndrome;5. heart and kidney yin deficiency syndrome. The treatment principles are invigorating and elimination. The treatments include: invigorate qi and yin, promoting blood circulation for removing obstruction in collaterals; replenishing qi to invigorate the spleen, eliminating phlegm and removing blood stasis; benefiting qi for activating blood circulation, activating meridians to stop pain; warming yang and invigorating the kidney, invigorate qi and replenishing water; nourishing yin and kidney, relieving mental stress. At the same time Professor Chen also treats the complications indifferent patients and prescribes medicines, adds and subtracts by symptoms. It achieves extraordinary results.