Introduction to CAO Guimin's Experience in Treating Chronic Heart Failure by Syndrome Differentiation Based on Root, Manifestation, and Pathway from the Perspective of Warming Yang , Activating Blood , and Promoting Diuresis
Abstract: This paper introduces Professor CAO Guimin's clinical experience in treating chronic heart failure by syndrome differentiation based on root,manifestation,and pathway from the perspective of warming yang,activating blood,and promoting diuresis. In the view of Professor CAO Guimin,the core pathogenesis of chronic heart failure is deficiency in root and excess in manifestation, with deficiency of heart-kidney yang qi as the root, blood stasis and fluid obstruction as the manifestation,and deficiency of qi and yin as the pathway. He classifies chronic heart failure into three types:heart-kidney yang deficiency,blood stasis and fluid obstruction,and deficiency of qi and yin. The therapeutic principle should be replenishing qi and warming yang,activating blood and promoting diuresis,combined with tonifying qi and nourishing yin. In clinical practice, treatment is based on the self-made formula XinfuningⅣ Prescription,with flexible modifications according to syndrome differentiation.