An Overview of Research on Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment of Pulmonary Nodules
ZHENG Yujia
SHAO Dong
ZHAO Yakun
TIAN Yan'ge
Abstract：The detection rate of pulmonary nodules has been increasing annually,posing a severe challenge to public health.Early diagnosis and intervention have become critical in the clinical management.Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)has demonstrated advantages in delaying the progression of pulmonary nodules and alleviating patients' anxiety in the early intervention of pulmonary nodules.In traditional Chinese medicine,pulmonary nodules are classified into excess syndrome,deficiency syndrome,and com-bined deficiency and excess syndrome.Among them,common excess syndromes include phlegm and tur-bidity obstructing the lungs,blood stasis obstructing the pulmonary collaterals,and the intermingling of phlegm and blood stasis.Deficiency syndromes are primarily characterized by lung qi deficiency,lung qi and yin deficiency,lung-spleen qi deficiency,etc.Combined deficiency-excess syndromes include qi deficiency and phlegm stasis syndrome,qi deficiency and blood stasis syndrome,lung deficiency and phlegm stasis syndrome,etc.The patients' constitution is often characterized by phlegm-dampness,qi deficiency,yin deficiency and qi stagnation.Clinically,corresponding treatment strategies are selected based on the patients' syndrome type and constitution,following the principle of supporting the body's healthy qi and eliminating pathogenic factors,and good therapeutic effects have been achieved.External treatment methods such as acupoint application,bloodstabbing at the back-shu acupoints,and acupuncture therapy can contribute to enhancing clinical efficacy to some extent.However,current clinical evidence supporting the effectiveness of TCM in treating pulmonary nodules remains insufficient.This paper collects relevant studies to compre-hensively explore TCM treatment approaches for pulmonary nodules from the perspectives of etiology,patho-genesis,syndrome differentiation,and constitutional characteristics,with a prospect of providing a scientific basis for the clinical prevention and treatment of pulmonary nodules.There are 83 references.
Keywords：pulmonary noduleexcess syndromedeficiency syndromecombined deficiency and excess syndromeconstitutiontraditional Chinese medicine external treatmentsupporting the body's healthy qi and eliminating pathogenic factors
Publication Date：2025-12-05
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：7( 1387-1393 )