Ulcerative Colitis In Western Progress

Ulcerative colitis is a disease of digestive tract characterized by chronic inflammation and ulceration of colonic mucous membrane. It often implicates rectum and far colon, but can also extends to near colon ,even entire colon . Signifiable symptoms have diarrhea, pus and blood stool, bellyache and tenesmus .Course of diseases is often lengthy. State of an illness makes large difference.It recrudesces time after time and relates to colon cancer. because it recurs frequently and is hard to cure completely , UC ranks among refractory diseases of modern times by world health organization.Pathogenesis of the disease is not very clear yet , that is considered as a kind of immunological disease commonly. Having attack of UC relates to immunological trauma , descendiblity , infection , and frenic factor ect. Because pathogenesis of the disease is not very clear yet , Western medicine's cure mostly is to stop inflammatory reaction and to adjust immunological function, yet the disease is easily recur and side reaction is great, pationts are difficult to bear .For raveling out the problome of UC , current doctors carry on investigation into pathogeny and treatment in-depthly , and gain definitely evolvement .In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), there is no certain disease that is totally corresponding to UC; yet its symptoms are similar with some diseases recorded by doctors in ancient times such as"changpi","xiexie","xiali","jiuli","xiuxili","xiuxili". According to TCM, its onset is closely related to the attack of exogenous pathogenic factors, improper diet and overtiredness, internal injury caused by emotions or deficiency of spleen and stomach. Those factors result in trauma of spleen and stomach, stay of wet and heat in large intestine, gas and blood's stagnancy ,and trauma of blood vessel. In treatment , ancient doctors emphasize discerning cold -heat syndromes, deficiency and excess syndromes , and found principia of treatment and effective method that provide gist for today's treat .Neoteric doctors believe that deficiency of spleen is its root, wet-heat in superficiality , blood stasis inpenetrates the disease all the time, inner-carbuncle is its partial pathologic manifestations. Excess syndrome is primary and deficiency syndrome is secondary during its paroxysm, while deficiency syndrome is primary and surplus evil is not ridded completely during its remission. Using Chinese traditional medicine by many methods such as acupuncture profess to convinced , clysis ,acupuncture and so on ,that has remarkable preponderance and no obvious harmly reaction. It shows its superiority in treating this disease.With the comprehension of the review on the near 10 year's research advance of both TCM and modern medicine, the author find some strongpoint and weakness and bring forward some superficial opinion .