“肺与大肠相表里”现代生物学认识浅谈

Discussion on Lung and Large Intestine Being Interior-Exteriorly Related Theory In Modern Biology

"肺与大肠相表里"是中医的重要基础理论,随着现代医学的发展,其中医理论方面的内涵认识已日趋深入,并且现代生物学技术对肺与肠的关系提供了更多分子方面的证据。二者在生理关系方面,从胚胎发育角度,肺与肠的发育过程紧密相关;在病理关系方面,肠缺血/再灌注病理状态下可能导致肺功能受到影响,肺病在一定的病理状态下也可以转移至肠,引起肠部病变。肺与大肠无论在生理方面还是在病理方面都存在联系,文章试对现代生物学关于肺与大肠在生理病理上的关系进行综述。

The theory of lung and large intestine being interior-exterior related is an important basic theory of traditional Chi- nese medicine. With the development of modern medicine, the connotation of this theory in TCM has been increasingly in-depth studied. And modem biology techniques have provided more evidence of the molecular aspects for this theory. In physiology, the lung is associated with the large intestine form embryos. In pathology, intestinal ischemia/reperfusion （II/R） may cause serious influence on the lung function. And lung disease could show metastasis to large intestine at some pathological states. The lung is associated with large intestine both on physiology and pathology. And in this article we attempted to review the relationship of lung and large intestine through modern biology.