Abstract:For chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), western medicine mostly adopts COPD global strategy(GOLD) graded treatment, which cannot reverse the progressive decrease of pulmonary function and brings great side effects.In recent years, with the gradual deepening of people′s understanding of COPD, the traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) external treatment has made a significant effect in the treatment of COPD.This paper gives a brief overview of the research progress in the treatment of COPD by TCM external therapy in recent years to provide more basis for clinical application.Databases such as CNKI, Wanfang Data, CQVIP have been searched and the representative related literatures in recent 5 years at home and abroad have been selected.The experimental and clinical research progress in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by TCM external treatment has been summarized from the aspects of acupuncture, moxibustion, acupoint application, acupoint embedding and so on.It is shown that the TCM external therapy can improve the clinical symptoms, pulmonary function and quality of life of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and is an effective and safe method of treatment.In the meantime, this paper COPD and deficiencies in the current studies, thus provides a way of thinking for further research.
王彧; 陈枫; 洪敏申. 中医外治法治疗慢性阻塞性肺疾病的研究进展[J]. 中国当代医药, 2020, 27(13): 22-24转29.
WANG Yu; CHEN Feng; HONG Min-shen. Research progress in treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by traditional Chinese medicine external therapy. 中国当代医药, 2020, 27(13): 22-24转29.