糖尿病周围神经病变的中医临床及实验研究进展

Progress of clinical and experimental studies on the Traditional Chinese medicine for diabetic peripheral neuropathy

近年来，中医药对于糖尿病周围神经病变的研究取得了较大进展，认为其病因病机为本虚标实，本虚为阴虚、气虚、血虚、气阴两虚、阳虚等，标实为瘀血、痰瘀。治疗方面采用益气养阴、温阳、活血化瘀、通络等治法，内外结合，具有多靶点起效的特点。本文就近年来中医药对本病的相关研究进展进行综述。

Recently, traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） researches on diabetic peripheral neuropathy made great progress. It is found that theetiology and pathogenesis was the deficiency in origin and the ecessive in superficialty. The deficiencyincluded Yin deficiency, Qi deficiency, blood deficiency, deficiency of both Qi and Yin, Yang deficiency, while the ecessive in superficialty included blood stasis, stasis of phlegm and blood. Thus, the principles of treatment were supplementing Qi and nourishing Yin, warming Yang, promoting blood and removing blood stasis, and smooth Luo, all of which showed the characteristics of TCM treatment were combination of inside and outside, and multi-target effects. This paper reviewed the progress of clinical and experimental studies on the TCM for diabetic peripheral neuropathy.