Experience of Dr. Ding Guangdi in Treating Chronic Enteritis

摘要

Chronic enteritis, with long-term diarrhea as its main symptom, can easily affect people over 40. Engaged in medical practice for more than 60 years, Dr. Ding Guangdi of Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine has inherited experience of ancient physician Li Dongyuan in treating the spleen and stomach and achieved very good curative effect in treating chronic enteritis. His experience is introduced as follows. Pathogenesis with Damp Pathogen as Super- ficiality and Yang Deficiency as Origin Dr. Ding believes that chronic diarrhea is mainly caused by damp pathogen, and that yang deficiency of the spleen and stomach is also the pathological basis of this disease. A long-term diarrhea certainly causes qi deficiency even yang deficiency of the spleen and stomach in middle-aged and old people with declined functions. The pathogenesis of the disease is characterized by disturbance of the spleen due to dampness, yang deficiency of the spleen and stomach, deficiency in origin and excess in superficiality.