CHEN Xiaoning's Experience in Treating Sinusitis from Lung and Spleen
SU Xiaojuan
LIU Yu
SHI Jun
YOU Songfan
YANG Fanglong
Abstract：Sinusitis can be classified into acute and chronic types.Professor CHEN Xiaoning holds that the disease cause and mechanism are closely related to qi deficiency and damp heat,and it can be categorized into deficiency syndrome,excess syndrome,or a combination of deficiency and excess syndrome based on the waning and waxing between evil qi and healthy qi.Deficiency syndrome mainly involves lung qi deficiency and cold or spleen qi weakness,while excess syndrome mainly involves hidden heat in the lung meridian and damp heat in the spleen and stomach.Based on traditional Chinese medicine theory,Professor CHEN Xiaoning summarizes the clinical experience and holds that the nose is the lung orifice and also governed by the spleen,and therefore the occurrence of sinusitis is mainly attributed to the dysfunction of the lung and spleen.He concludes that treating sinusitis should aim at lung and spleen,with warming and tonifying,clearing and resolving,and unblocking orifices as the methods.For patients with lung qi deficiency and cold or spleen qi dificiency,treatment should focus on warming and tonification.For those with latent heat in the lung meridian or damp-heat in the spleen-stomach,treatment should emphasize clearing and resolving.In cases of acute sinusitis,the principle should be despersing and unblocking.Therefore,he applies the experience of treating sinusitis from lung and spleen in clinical practice,formulating his own formulas such as Yiqi Shengqing Formula(益气升清方)and Huashi Tongqiao Formula(化湿通窍方),achieving remarkable clinical efficacy.There is verified cases for the reference.
Keywords：sinusitisrhinosinusitistreating form lung and spleenlung qi deficiency and coldCHEN Xiaoning
Publication Date：2025-06-05
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 680-684 )