Primary Research About TCM Syndrome Of Intracranial Tumor

ObjectiveWe studied the distribution rule of TCM syndrome differentiation typing for intracranial tumors, and preliminarily analyzed the relationship between TCM syndrome differentiation and patient’s gender, age and other general information, disease duration, surgery or not, radiotherapy or not, chemotherapy or not, tumor types, and tumor characters through literature review and retrospective clinical research, to provide a reference for the normalization of study on TCM syndrome types and dialectical therapy.MethodsSearched the literature, summarized the most common TCM syndrome differentiation typing of intracranial tumors and its symptoms, as well as made TCM symptom information collection form and collected relevant information. Organized data, obtained the distribution rule of TCM syndrome differentiation typing for intracranial tumors by statistical approaches, and preliminarily analyzed the relationship between TCM syndrome differentiation and patient’s general information, disease duration, surgery or not, radiotherapy or not, chemotherapy or not, tumor types, and tumor characters.ResultsStagnation of phlegm-dampness tops the most common TCM syndrome differentiation typing in the literature according to literature data statistics, followed by liver-kidney deficiency of yin, stagnation of vital energy and blood stasis, accumulation and binding of heat-poison, deficiency of both qi and yin, and yang deficiency of the spleen and kidney. Totally collected 100 cases for clinical research, including 55 males and 45 females. Syndrome statistics in the clinical research are:yang deficiency of the spleen and kidney, deficiency of both qi and yin, stagnation of phlegm-dampness, liver-kidney deficiency of yin, stagnation of vital energy and blood stasis, and accumulation and binding of heat-poison, where other syndromes are little. There is no significant difference between TCM syndrome differentiation of intracranial tumors with age, gender, as well as radiotherapy or not (P>0.05), but significant difference with disease duration, surgery or not, chemotherapy or not, tumor types, and tumor characters(P<0.05).ConclusionAccording to literature and clinical studies, yang deficiency of the spleen and kidney tops the most common TCM syndrome differentiation typing, followed by deficiency of both qi and yin, stagnation of phlegm-dampness, liver-kidney deficiency of yin, stagnation of vital energy and blood stasis, and accumulation and binding of heat-poison. There is no significant difference between TCM syndrome differentiation of intracranial tumors with age, gender, radiotherapy or not (P> 0.05), but significant difference with disease duration, surgery or not, chemotherapy or not, tumor types, and tumor characters(P<0.05). The cause of intracranial tumors is body resistance weakened or pathogenic factors prevailing, where the lack of anti-pathogenic energy is the original cause, cold phlegm, blood stasis and toxin resistance is the superficial cause. This topic preliminarily discussed TCM syndrome differentiation typing of intracranial tumors, and analyzed its relationship with related factors.