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CAI Shuyu,HE Youcheng,WU Yue,et al.Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment of Cathartic Colon Based on the Principle "Yang Transforms Qi,Yin Forms Substance"[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2025,66(17):1764-1768.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2025.17.006.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment of Cathartic Colon Based on the Principle "Yang Transforms Qi,Yin Forms Substance"
Cathartic colon results from long-term use of bitter-cold purgatives, which damage
yang
and consume
yin
, deplete fluids, and impair the stomach, thereby disturbing the functions of "
yang
transforms
qi
" and "
yin
forms substance", leading to injury of
qi
, blood, and body fluids. The fundamental pathomechanisms are spleen-kidney
yang
deficiency, lung deficiency with intestinal dryness, and obstruction of intestinal collaterals by blood stasis. Treatment focuses on harmonizing
yin
and
yang
to restore the functions of transforming
qi
and forming substance, with syndrome differentiation of
zang
-
fu
organs,
qi
, blood,
yin
, and
yang
. Therapeutic approaches include warming and tonifying the spleen and kidney, assisting
yang
to transform
qi
, tonifying
qi
and nourishing
yin
to promote peristalsis, and invigorating blood to resolve stasis with acrid-moistening methods to unblock the collaterals, providing guidance for integrated traditional Chinese medicine-western medicine clinical management of cathartic colon.
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