从湿论治泄泻

Treatment of diarrhea from dampness

泄泻是指排便次数增多、粪便稀薄,甚至泻出如水样的一种病症,主要病因强调湿邪致泄的主导性,病机为脾虚湿盛、脾胃运化功能失调、肠道功能失司,可分为急慢性两类,急性多分为寒湿与湿热,慢性多分为脾胃虚弱与肾阳虚衰。泄泻的治法较多,但总体来说运脾化湿是其治疗大法,可以分别从温化寒湿、清化湿热、健脾止泻与温肾止泻来论述,因此从湿论治在泄泻的治疗中具有重要的临床意义。

Diarrhea is a kind of disease with increased frequency of defecation, thin faeces, even spilled water, the major pathogenic factors emphasize the dominance of dampness pathogen, the pathogenesis is damp abundance due to spleen asthenia, the transforming function of spleen and stomach is unbalanced, and the intestinal function is uncon- trolled, which can be divided into acute and chronic diarrhea two types, the acute diarrhea can be divided into cold- dampness and dampness-heat, while the chronic diarrhea can be divided into insufficiency of spleen and stomach and deficiency of kidney-yang. Diarrhea has many therapeutic methods, on the whole, invigorating spleen for eliminating dampness is the primary treatment of diarrhea disease, including warming for resolving cold-dampness, clearing heat and eliminating dampness, invigorating the spleen to stop diarrhea, warming the kidney to stop diarrhea, therefore, treatment of diarrhea from dampness has an important clinical significance.