The TCM Stage-Oriented Treatment for Chronic Cardiac Insufficiency

摘要

According to the clinical manifestations, chronic cardiac insufficiency (also called chronic heart failure) usually falls into the TCM category of ‘palpitation’ or ‘dyspnea’, and ‘edema’. Parts of the left cardiac insufficiency characterized by night cough and hemoptysis, and the right cardiac insufficiency by congestive cirrhosis and hydrops in the pleuroperitoneal cavity, are usually classified into the TCM category of ‘cough’, ‘blood troubles’,