Professor Zhang Lan On The Treatment Of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis Experience

Hashimoto's thyroiditis is also called chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, belonging to a kind of autoimmune diseases,Traditional Chinese Medicine thinks that the cause of disease and pathogenesis of this disease is mainly internal impairment by emotional changes,irregularity of diet and autoimmune unacclimatization and constitution factor etc. causeing to make stagnation of qi,stagnation of phlegm,blood stagnation before the neck to come into being disease.The modern medical science thinks that this disease is inheritting easy emotion foundation up,because the inducement of environment factor makes the organism take place autoimmune response region and cause paroxysm taking place.The mainly clinical performance is both sides of Adam's apple before the neck the agglomeration is swollen big,the main characteristic is a serum to exist a thyroid gland oneself antibody and thyroid gland organization inside lymphoid cell gradually,the outbreak mechanism of this disease is definitely still not quite,but inherits factor,environment factor and infection and iodine to absorb too much have a count for much function in the outbreak of this disease currently.Tutor,professor Zhang Lan combines for several years according to the Chinese medicine basic theory of clinical experience think:the outbreak of Hashimoto's thyroiditis is liver,spleen and kidney which three internal organs of the body's functions are lack of proper care,with stagnation of qi,stagnation of phlegm,blood stagnation etc. pathologic factor.Stagnation of liver-qi is a familiar cause of disease,and spleen asthenia is order to be taken onset of disease foundation,and liver depression and spleen asthenia with stagnation of qi and stagnation of phlegm is the familiar pathogenesis of the disease,the pathological changes can involve in kidney gradually,in a later period deficiency of spleen and kidney yang is to be seen more.In clinical it is often divided into three types of syndrome which is namely:stagnation of liver-qi,liver depression and spleen asthenia and deficiency of spleen and kidney yang.The most important of treatment should be nursing and treating liver and spleen to commence,combining of the patient's symptoms,conditions of tongue,conditions of pulse to vivid syndrome differentiation and ways of prescribing drugs,not only improved the patient's clinical symptom,but also the index signs of the thyroid autoantibodies etc. obviously lower,and prompt the patient's autoimmune function which gets an obvious improvement,and display special feature and advantage of Chinese medicine in treatment of the disease.