Kenneth Lu The Professor The Application Tongmai Huazhuo Soup Treatment Phlegm Stasis Chest Experience

Chest discomfort is a disease characterized by paroxysms of pectoral pain, sometimes accompanied by a feeling of oppression. The slight symptoms include sense of suppression in the chest and a feeling of breathing hardly, where the serious ones include severe heartburn which can spread to the back. According to its clinical features, it mainly has a strong relationship with Coronary heart disease(CHD) such as Angina and Myocardial Infarction in modern medicine. It has been a common and frequent-occurring disease of cardiovascular system whose morbidity and mortality rate are ascending gradually in our country during recent years. What's more, the patients who got this disease are becoming younger and younger, which has been threatening the quality of people's life seriously. In conjunction with clinical experience, Professor Lv Xiao-dong has made a useful exploration on the treatment of chest discomfort on the basis of researching the ancient classical Chinese medicine and the relevant treatise of past dynasties.Professor Lv believes that the disease is induced by a variety of factors, while the most important ones must be repletion and thickness, oldness and feebleness, emotions and internal injuries, fatigue or over-rest and exogenous evils invasion, and also related to smoking, genetic, social, environmental and psychological factors. The main lesion is heart, associated with many internal organs such as the lung, liver, spleen, and kidney. The pathogenesis includes coldness, stagnation of Qi,phlegm and blood stasis. But in recent years, with the improvement of living standards, the change of life style and the increase of social pressures, phlegm and blood stasis CHD become more and more common. According to this theory, professor Lv applies TongMaiHuaZhuoTang to treat the patients by the method of removing phlegm and stasis which has achieved better clinical effect.