CUI Yunzhu's Experience in Treating Diabetic Perpheral Neuropathy

FU Lu

Abstract：The experience of professor CUI Yunzhu in the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) was summarized. The pathogenesis of the disease is deficient root and excessive branch and the liver ,spleen and kidney are closely related to it. Based on diabetes with deficiency of both qi and yin ,the blood stasis and phlegm turbidity is gradually formed,which result in the obstruction in the collaterals,then the blood is not smooth and the veins and skin are not nourished. Different treatments should be given according to dif-ferent stage. At the early stage,the main pathogenesis is qi and yin deficiency. At the middle stage,the main pathogenesis is yin deficiency of liver and kidney ,phlegm and blood stasis obstructing the collaterals. At the late stage,the main pathogenesis is deficiency of spleen and kidney,cold coagulation and blood stasis. The early treatment should be supplementing qi and nourishing yin. The middle treatment should be tonify-ing the liver and kidney,activating blood circulation and resolving phlegm and collaterals. The late treatment should be invigorating the spleen and kidney,warming yang and unblocking collaterals. Removing blood stasis is an important treatment of the disease ,which should always run through the lesion.