Professor Chen Min 's Experience In Treating Senile Dystrophy With Ointment

Senile dementia is a group of chronic progressive mental deteriorationdiseasesincluding intelligence, memory, language, feeling, cognition andability of daily life, social communication and personality changes.It includesAlzheimer’s disease, Vascular dementia,Mixed dementia and other types of.Fromthe clinical manifestations of Senile dementia,the disease belongs to depressionsyndrome,dementia, melancholia,amnesia, epileptic syndrome,mania,and so onin TCM.It mostly occurs in people over the age of65,the current incidence rateof the disease was about5%.AD was50%,VD was20%,Mixed dementia was10%~20%.Mostscholars think the site of dementia is brain, and related closely withheart,liver,spleen,kidney.Kidney deficiency is the root,phlegm and blood stasisis the superficial,deficiency syndrome and excessive syndrome can be transformedinto each other.It has pathological characteristic of deficiency root andexcessive superficial.Professor ChenMin who based on the early clinicalpractice,summarzing the discussion of etiology and pathogenesis of seniledementia from ancient to modern times,think the root of incidence of seniledementia is kidney deficiency, it related with heart,liver,spleen,lung.Phlegmand blood stasis is the superficial,the site of dementia is brain.thepathological characteristic of senile dementia is deficiency root and excessivesuperficial.Deficiency, phlegm, blood stasis are the important pathologicalfactors of the disease.So she often use the method of tonifyingkidney,eliminating phlegm,dispersing blood stasis to treat the disease.Clinicalcurative effect is very good.