DAI Sisi,LU Shenghua,HE Tao,et al.CHENG Choufu's Experience in Treating Hypertension based on “Ascending and Descending of Qi Movement”[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2023,64(07):667-670.
DAI Sisi,LU Shenghua,HE Tao,et al.CHENG Choufu's Experience in Treating Hypertension based on “Ascending and Descending of Qi Movement”[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2023,64(07):667-670.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2023.07.004.
CHENG Choufu's Experience in Treating Hypertension based on “Ascending and Descending of Qi Movement”
This paper summarized professor CHENG Choufu's clinical experience in treating hypertension based on “ascending and descending of
qi
movement”. Hypertension is categorized into “vertigo” in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and usually occurs when there is depletion of spleen and stomach, leading to abnormal ascending and descending of spleen and stomach, and clear
yang
failing to ascend, or when excessive ascending of liver
qi
and insufficient descending of lung
qi
lead to upper hyperactivity of liver
yang
, or when there is insufficient kidney water, disharmony between heart and kidney, and heart fire hyperactivity attacking brain orifices. Following the principle that
qi
movement in the body should be descending within ascending and ascending within descending, professor CHENG suggested to prescribe formulas from the perspectives of regulating the spleen and stomach, calming the liver and descending lung
qi
, restoring normal coordination between heart and kidney, so as to achieve the balance of
qi
ascending and descending of the whole body of the spleen and stomach, liver and lung, and heart and kidney, and therefore improve the symptoms of vertigo.