| Atrophic rhintis is a common disease in department of ENT. Atrophic rhinitis is a disease what the main characteristics of it is the due to the body fluid of Yin can’t moist the mucosa of nose lead to the dryness nasal, nasal muscle atrophy even the Nasal cavity becomes larger. The method of Treatment of Western medicine for Rhinitis sicca is mainly through the localy moist the nasal cavity. The method to treatment atrophic rhinitis is to improve the nutritional status, change the habits of life, the drugs to nasal irrigation, the operation or drugs to narrow the nasal cavity. To reduce nasal ventilation and the water what evaporation, and reduce the dryness of nasal and scabby. The advantages of oral or local administration is to alleviate the dry condition of nasal mucosa atrophy in a certain extent. the disadvantages of operation is to bring the pain to patients however the effect of treatment is not perfectly. Compared with it, the method of TCM in the treatment of Atrophic rhintis has the less side effects and the better effects of treatment. It meaningful to study the treatment what based on syndrome differentiation and the method of TCM of Atrophic rhintis.Objective Systematic stydy the nasal release literature and summarizes the research about treatment what based on syndrome differentiation and treatment rules. To provide the reference for the prevention and treatment of Atrophic rhintis.Method This subject studies the ancient and modern literature, modern TCM literature, the cases of famous physicians. Attention to the syndrome differentiation treatment of Atrophic rhintis, the rule of use the TCM durg. By observing the change of name of disease, etiology and pathogenesis, syndrome differentiation and treatment, to summarize the recognition of these literature to this disease.Result The complete study of ancient literature of Atrophic rhintis is relatively rare, the earliest symptoms is "dry nose", "atrophic rhinitis", "nose gao". It is belongs into the scope of the disease of Atrophic rhinitis and rhinitis sicca in modern medicine.The ancient doctors believed that the main etiology and pathogenesis to Atrophic rhintis is "The deficiency of qi and imbalance of yin and yang in the viscera of Lung and Spleen and Stomach and Liver and Gallbladder and Kidney and other visceras lead to the dry evil invasion the Lung and the stagnation of qi, the stasis of blood". The research summarizes ancient and modern physicians found that Atrophic rhintis was treatment based on syndrome differentiation in the pattern of lung dryness invading the lung and the pattern of dificiency yin in the lung and kidney and the pattern of deficiency qi of spleen and the patter of stink of damp heat and the pattern of accumulate heat of viscera and the pattern of stasis of blood and phlegm. The fundamental reason of this disease is due to dryness heat invading the lung. Most of the doctors selected the drugs of "clearing heat and nourishing yin". The recorded of ancient physicians on the treatment of atrophic rhintis is relatively few, combined with modern medical treatment the drugs like Radix Ophiopogonis, radix, lily, Eclipta, licorice, ginseng, Codonopsis, Atractylodes, Chinese yam, Radix Scutellariae, Cortex Phellodendri, Radix Astragali, Radix trichosanthis, gypsum, rehmannia root, figwort root, fragrant solomonseal rhizome, red peony root, tree peony bark, hemp seed, tuckahoe, coix seed, Platycodon root, Bai Mao, Fritillaria, loquat leaf, almond, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Radix Angelicae Sinensis o, tuckahoe, coix seed, mulberry leaf, donkey hide gelatin were commonly used. |