Treatment of Alzheimer's disease by combination of acupuncture and Chinese medicine based on pathophysiological mechanism: A review.
Medicine (Baltimore)
; 101(49): e32218, 2022 Dec 09.
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ABSTRACT
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by neurodegeneration, nerve loss, neurofibrillary tangles, and Aß plaques. In modern medical science, there has been a serious obstacle to the effective treatment of AD. At present, there is no clinically proven and effective western medicine treatment for AD. The reason is that the etiology of AD is not yet fully understood. In 2018, the international community put forward a purely biological definition of AD, but soon this view of biomarkers was widely questioned, because the so-called AD biomarkers are shared with other neurological diseases, the diagnostic accuracy is low, and they face various challenges in the process of clinical diagnosis and treatment. Nowadays, scholars increasingly regard AD as the result of multimechanism and multicenter interaction. Because there is no exact Western medicine treatment for AD, the times call for the comprehensive treatment of AD in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). AD belongs to the category of "dull disease" in TCM. For thousands of years, TCM has accumulated a lot of relevant treatment experience in the process of diagnosis and treatment. TCM, acupuncture, and the combination of acupuncture and medicine all play an important role in the treatment of AD. Based on the research progress of modern medicine on the pathophysiology of AD, this paper discusses the treatment of this disease with the combination of acupuncture and medicine.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Terapia por Acupuntura
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Enfermedad de Alzheimer
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
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En
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Medicine (Baltimore)
Año:
2022
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Article
País de afiliación:
China