“肺与大肠相表里”的中西医结合研究进展

The Integrated TCM and Western Medicine Advances of Exterior and Interior Relation of Lung and Large Intestine

肺与大肠相表里起源于《黄帝内经》,是中医学的基本理论之一。几千年来,广大中医人对这一理论不断深入探讨和挖掘,使其从基础理论到临床不断取得新的发展,对指导中医临床起到了举足轻重的作用。近10年来,从事中西医结合研究的学者对这一理论进行了更加深入地研究,从文献到临床,从现代分子生物到免疫学,从胚胎学到内分泌学,从肠病及肺到肺病及肠等都进行了细致的研究,不断地从各个层次探讨肠与肺相关的机制,包括细胞水平、分子水平,而且还发现了各种机制间的内在联系。这些不仅为中医学"肺与大肠相表里"理论的研究奠定了坚实的基础,而且也开辟了研究新途径。总之,肺与大肠相表里这一理论经过古代以及近现代的研究有了很多新的进展,为指导中医以及中西医结合临床工作作出了突出贡献。

The exterior and interior relation of Lung and Large Intestine was orientate from ＂Huang Di Nei Jing＂, and it is one of the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine. For thousands of years ,the majority of Traditional Chinese Medicine doctors explored this theory continuously, which made it developing in spite of basic theory and clinics, and it also played a important role in the guidance of TCM clinics. In the last decade ,the researchers of integrated TCM and western medicine conducted a even more in- depth research of this theory. From literature to clinics, from modern molecular biology to immunology, from embryology to endocrinology, from the bowel diseases influencing lung and pulmonary diseases influencing intestine, they all carried out detailed studies, and continuously detected the intestinal and lung - related mechanisms from the various levels including cell and molecular level. In addition,they also found the intrinsic link between the mechanisms. These laid a solid theoretical foundation not only for the exterior and interior relation of Lung and Large Intestine in TCM, but also opened up new ways of researches. In short, this theory of the exterior and interior relation of Lung and Large Intestine, through the ancient and modem study, had many new advances, and made outstanding contributions for the guidance of the Integrated Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine clinical work.