Summary of Professor Lin Hai's Experience in Treating Apoplexy in Acute Stage from "Wind Evil"

Abstract

Cerebral ischemic stroke (CIS) is a kind of ischemic and hypoxic necrosis of brain tissue caused by stenosis or occlusion of the cerebral vascular wall. It is clinically manifested as neurological defects corresponding to the responsible lesion, which belongs to the category of "stroke disease" in traditional Chinese medicine. The third cause of death in China survey, cerebrovascular disease first to the cause of death in urban and rural residents in China, including cerebral infarction is accounts for 70% to 80% of cerebrovascular disease, hemiplegia, aphasia caused by cerebral infarction, dementia, difficulty swallowing, such as clinical symptoms, the serious influence of life ability and the quality of survival, to family and society bring heavy burden. It has become an important social health problem that people pay more and more attention to. Therefore, it is one of the important tasks for medical workers to improve the prevention and treatment of stroke. Professor Lin Hai is the famous TCM doctor in Shaanxi province, a successor tutor of academic experience of provincial and municipal TCM experts, a chief physician, and a tutor of postgraduate students. He has been engaged in clinical, scientific research and teaching of TCM encephalopathy and mental disease for more than 30 years, and has unique views on syndrome differentiation and treatment of stroke. He has accumulated rich experience in the diagnosis and treatment of apoplexy through studying ancient books and clinical teaching practice. He is good at treating apoplexy from "wind evil". In the acute stage of apoplexy, the basic pathogenesis of apoplexy is "Qi deficiency and blood stasis, caused by wind". It is pointed out that apoplexy is mainly based on "Qi deficiency and blood stasis" and marked by "wind evil", and the two interact to cause apoplexy. On the basis of invigorating Qi and activating blood circulation, flexible use of "wind-dispelling" drugs can improve qi and activating blood circulation simultaneously with dispelling wind and dredging collaterals, with remarkable clinical effect.