Exploration of the Ancient Disease Name of Heart Failure
ZHU Zhen-zhen
YUAN Can-yu
YUAN Zhi-yu
SUN Tian-fu
ZHANG Jian-wen
LI Xi-yun
YUAN Hai-bo
Abstract：Organizing and analyzing record of heart failure about the symptom,etiology,disease location and treatment principle in ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine.studying the essence of "heart obstruction","cardiac distention","cough involving heart meridian","heart water","heart failure"," gasp syndrome","edema","heart palpitations".As a result,it is only a side for heart failure that is " heart obstruction "," cardiac distention " and "cough involving heart meridian ".Neither does "heart palpitations" reflect the specificity of traditional Chinese medicine on heart failure,nor is its treatment focus consistent with heart failure.Simultaneous affection of lung and heart occurs in "gasp syndrome" of which disease location takes place in the lung and the treatment focus is not consistent with heart failure.Compared with heart failure in western medicine," edema" involves a broader range of diseases.The " heart failure" of traditional Chinese medicine is one of the pathogenesis rather than a disease.heart failure in western medicine is similar to heartwater in traditional Chinese medicine.It is more reasonable for heart failure to be diagnosed and treated as heartwater.
Keywords：Heart failureAncient books of traditional Chinese medicineHeartwaterTraditional Chinese medicineResearch on disease name
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 1509-1511 )