Discussion on the TCM Treatment of Hypertension from Pathogenetic Viewpoints of Modern Medicine

摘要

The ideal hypotensive agent should possess three essentials, i.e. to depress the blood pressure surely and steadily, and to block the renin-angio-tensin system (RAS). Currently, Western medical treatment could depress the blood pressure rapidly and surely through reducing blood volume and dilating blood vessels, while traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) shows its superiorities in alleviating clinical symptoms, improving patients' quality of life, lessening or reversing the damage on terminal organs and preventing the occurrence of serious complication, by way of comprehensive regulation at multiple levels, multiple links and multiple targets. For this reason, the thinking and method of TCM in treating hypertension were summarized by the authors on the basis of patho-genesis of Western medicine and the achievements of pharmacological researches on Chinese herbs, and in conjugation with the clinical practice of TCM, for the purpose of promoting further the therapeutic effect of TCM in treating hypertension.