Advances in treatment of stroke with cerebral edema / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

It is discovered in massive clinical practices that Chinese medicine intervention in the acute stage of stroke can make enormous improvement in stroke prognosis,moreover in many cases,which is prompted to be related with the improvement of hydrocephalus in the acute stage of stroke.This article makes a preliminary theoretical discussion that the function of Chinese medicine to hydrocephalus is possibly related with the following three hypothesesremoving the blood heat and dredging the ori ces can promote diuresis;catharsis and clearing turbidity can remove water;clearing the liver and suppressing wind can facilitate water.And elaborate the possible mechanisms in detailsremoving the blood heat and dredging the ori ces can remove the blood stasis and promote diuresis;catharise and clearing turbidity can smooth Fu-qi and make qi and blood spread,and achieve the goal of dredging the ori ces to free the collaterals and alleviate hydrocephalus;clearing the liver and suppressing wind may have many kinds of e ects such as suppressing re,smoothing qi,harmonizing blood,removing the blood stasis and stoppingconvulsion,and then smooth qi and blood to control or alleviate hydrocephalus.