Research progress on clinical application of traditional Chinese medicine appropriate technology in the treatment of tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is a chronic consuming zoonosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and is the most important fatal respiratory infectious disease in the world. Currently, most treatment regimens are composed of several western anti-tuberculosis drugs, and patients are prone to get multiple drug resistance, which leads to prolonged treatment course and great psychological pressure. At the same time, long-term chemotherapy increases the economic burden of patients and reduces their quality of life. The traditional Chinese medicine appropriate technology has the traditional Chinese medicine characteristics, using various traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment methods to consolidate the treatment effect, has advantages on safety and simplity. Taking nursing of tuberculosis symptoms as searching clue, the author searched and summarized the application status of traditional Chinese medicine appropriate technology in nursing of patients with relevant clinical symptoms in recent years, in order to expect traditional Chinese medicine appropriate technology to play a greater role in the treatment of tuberculosis.