中药治疗脂肪肝研究进展

近年来,随着人们饮食结构、生活方式的改变,脂肪肝的发病率呈上升趋势,且发病年龄越来越小,现已成为危害人类健康最常见的肝病。目前脂肪肝的发生机制尚未彻底明了,西医缺乏理想的针对性的特效药,主要应用调节血脂的药物进行辅助治疗。而中药对脂肪肝有着很好的作用和广阔前景,无论在改善临床症状,还是在改善肝功能方面都有明显的优势。从中医对脂肪肝的病因病机、治疗原则、中药治疗方法等方面,对近年来的文献进行了综述。

Advances in studies on treating adiposis hepatica with traditional Chinese medicine

Recently the morbidity of fatty liver shows an ascendant trend,and the age of onset is getting smaller and smaller.At present,the mechanism of fatty liver has not yet been thoroughly clear,and there is no effective drugs in western medicine.Treatment on fatty liver by traditional Chinese medicine has a clear advantage in both the improvement of clinical symptoms and the improvement of liver function and liver imaging.This article reviewed the literatures of recent years from the aspects of fatty liver pathogenesis,treatment principles,methods,and other traditional Chinese medicine treatment.