The Atractylodes Peony Scattered Flavored Treatment Of Children With Tic - Clinical Studies Of Tourette Syndrome

Tourette's syndrome(TS) is a chronic childhood-onset neuropsychiatric disease.The clinical manifestation is the involuntary tics of the face,limbs or body and the vocal tic,accompanied with certain psychological and behavioral obstacles.The characteristics of TS is frequent,sudden,rapid,repeated and stereotyped.In recent years the incidence of the disease has increased.It may be caused by people's increasing emphasises on it and the unified diagnostic criteria now.Patients with TS and ordinary people have no difference in intellengence and life span,but patients with Tourette syndrome often accompanied with obsessive-compulsive disorder,anxiety,depression,impulsive behavior and attention hyperactivity obstacles.Because of the less concentration,anxiety and frequent tics,children with TS have difficulties in study,couldn't bring into full play of their potency,have a reduced ability to adapt to the society,even generate self-injurious behaviors.These have severely affected a child's physical and mental health development.TS's etiology has not yet been entirely clear,the majority reported that the genetic factors,neurophysiology,biochemical metabolism,perinatal factors,immune factors,infections,psychology,social and environmental factors interact during it's development,to generate this clinical syndrome.Haloperidol is the first choice to treat TS in Modern medicine,drugs blocking dopamine receptors also be used to treat TS.These treatments achieved certain effects,but they have poor long-term effect and marked side effects.Starting from the holistic concept of body,selecting different treatment for different syndrome,TCM has a better clinical efficacy in the treatment of TS.Children have "shaoyang" physique,with the physical characteristics of "liver is easily excessive,spleen is easily deficiency".Because of repeated rheum,it damages the function of spleen and stomach.Binding depression of Liver qi which is caused by mental and emotional disorders affects the function of the spleen.These factors cause the syndrome of "spleen deficiency and liver excessive".Combining the clinical experience,seizing the basic pathogenesis,Professor Xu Rongqian use Baizhushaoyaosan cures TS and get satisfactory results. In short,The clinical research certify Baizhu Shaoyao San has satisfactory clinical efficacy to the syndrome of"spleen deficiency and liver excessive".It provids a new and effective way for the treatment of TS.