[Thinking and look forward to clinical study of allergic rhinitis by treatment of traditional Chinese medicine].

ABSTRACT

Allergic rhinitis (AR) is one kind of nose mucous membrane inflammation reactiveness disease, which is mediated by IgE for the environment sensitizin. The major clinical symptoms are nose itch, the sneeze, nasal discharge, nasal obstruction and so on. It is thought that the acient disease named "Bi Qiu" has included AR. By comparing the AR clinical manifestation characteristic with trditional Chinese medicine (TCM) "Feng/wind" induced disease characteristic and the "Feng/wind" disease clinical manifestation characteristic, we can know that AR should belong to the "Feng/wind" disease category of TCM. It is shown that the "Feng/ wind" medicine is the most windly appeared in AR treatment formulas of TCM clinical research data (in each formular) in the past 10 years. To aim directly at three knids of problem in TCM clinical research, we discussed five problems which should pay close attention to the feature research, therefor to provide a mirror for AR clinical and experimental studies by TCM.