中医络病的现代认识

络病理论是中医基础理论的重要组成部分,对于络病理论的深入研究将有助于中医脏腑、经络、病因病机、辨证论治等理论的发展与创新.通过在分子水平上探索与研究络病的病理生理机制,对中医络病理论给予了现代医学诠释,提出了新的络病假说,从而部分地实现了中医基础理论与西医基础理论实质性的链接,实现了传统中医药学与国际前沿科学研究的接轨.

Understanding of the TCM Collateral Disease Theory on the Basis of Modern Medical Sciences

The authors of this paper hold that the TCM collateral disease theory is an important part of TCM theoretical foundation, and a deep study of the TCM collateral disease theory will help the development and innovation of TCM theories of zang-fu, meridians and collaterals, pathogenic factors and pathogenesis, and diagnosis and treatment based on syndrome differentiation. The authors try to explain the pathogenesis of the TCM collateral disease on the basis of the molecular pathophysiologicaL facts, and have put forward a new hypothesis of the TCM collateral disease. By doing so, the authors intend to make one of the possible links between TCM basic theories and modern medical theories.