中医治疗多发性硬化症的临床体会

Clinical experience of treating multiple sclerosis with traditional Chinese medicine

多发性硬化症(MS)是一种以原发中枢神经系统白质炎性脱髓鞘为主要病理特点的慢性中枢神经系统疾病,病因目前尚不清,是导致非外伤性青壮年残疾的主要疾病之一,目前尚无有效的根治办法.西医治疗主要是用激素和免疫抑制剂,但单纯西医治疗并不能达到理想的控制病程的效果.笔者总结10余年治疗MS的体会认为在西医控制急性期病情基础上,加针灸和中药,同时配合纠正患者的不良生活习惯能明显改善神经症状,提高免疫功能,减少激素和免疫抑制剂用量,延缓和阻止病情发展,降低复发有确切的疗效,弥补了西医的不足.

Multiple sclerosis(MS)is a chronic central nervous system disease characterized by primary pathological inflammatory white matter demyelination in the central nervous system,the etiology is unclear and the disease can result in one of the main causes of non-traumatic young adults with disabilities,and regretfully,there are no effective ways to cure it radically.Western medicine often uses primarily corticosteroids and immunosuppressive agents for the treatment of this disease.However,using western medicine alone is not ideal to control the disease progress.For more than 10 years,the author has used the following traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)for treatment of this disease,the scheme of TCM is based on the western medicine's control of the acute phase,simultaneously using acupuncture,Chinese medicine,and correcting the patient's bad habits to treat MS,and we have obtained good therapeutic results,the neurological symptoms are significantly improved and the immune function regulated;in addition,the dosages of corticosteroids and immunosuppressants used can be decreased and further,the disease severity,incidences of recurrence and western drug side effects can be reduced and the disease progression can become milder or much milder or prevented,so as providing compensation to the deficits of western medicine.