Drug-resistant pneumonia

a refractory and common disease in clinic

belongs to warm disease category in Chinese medicine. The characteristics of recurrent

protracted course and activation by new infection are similar to clinical features of hidden pathogen in Chinese medicine. According to the theory of hidden pathogen

the pathogen character of drug-resistant pneumonia is wind

phlegm

damp and heat. Disease name could belong to wind-warm disease caused by incubating pathogens. The pathogenesis is deficiency of Qi and Yin

activation by infection

as well as wind-phlegm-damp-heat obstructing lung. This disease could be treated differently in initial phase

brewing toxin phase and recovery phase clinically. The authors summarize the syndromes

treatments and proved recipes of all phases. Medical records are added to explain.