Combining Chinese and Western medicine to deal with alcoholic liver
With the development of commodity economy, people’s living standards, expansion of social interaction, alcohol as a social media consumption increasing. Moderate drinking or drinking a small amount of the basic sound, but if the alcohol addiction, alcoholism, especially in alcoholic liver disease will be followed. The relevant statistics show that alcohol-induced liver disease after hepatitis B virus has now become the second largest after the cause of liver disease.
The main ingredient is alcohol, alcohol, chemical name is ethanol. Alcohol metabolism in the liver is the only organ, after drinking alcohol is absorbed into the liver through metabolism into acetaldehyde, liver tissue was later disposed of. Acetaldehyde is more toxic than ethanol, the liver, excessive accumulation can damage the liver cells, liver cells can occur repeatedly fatty degeneration, necrosis, resulting in fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver, referred to as alcoholic liver disease. Patients have been suffering from viral hepatitis, excessive alcohol consumption more worse. The key players here to talk about the five types of alcoholic liver disease in Chinese medicine treatment.
Mild alcoholic liver disease usually no clinical symptoms, such as the time on their own alcohol or acupuncture, ear acupuncture alcohol, or clothing Ge Hua, Kudzu, dried tangerine peel, Poria, Amomum villosum, Huang Qin, Huang Lian and other hangover Liver Chinese medicine, disease can be fully restored, if they continue to alcohol, the condition will continue to develop.
Alcoholic fatty liver may be asymptomatic, or mild discomfort, such as body fat, and general malaise, fatigue, loss of appetite, abdominal fullness, nausea and vomiting, right upper quadrant, and Cullen, or under the pain Xiphoid, about 75% of patients with enlargement of the liver, abnormal liver function. Mainly of serum transaminases and the r-glutamyltransferase GGT increased. Chinese medicine as “Xie Tong”, “accumulate”, “fullness” and other areas. Its etiology and pathogenesis of Food & Wine Festival did not hurt the spleen and stomach, spleen and lost health movement, moisture inside the stop, wet, forming sputum, sputum Yu course of time of heat, phlegm block, air-poor, bleeding inside the stop, blocking hysteresis context. In addition to the timely treatment of alcohol, the can take Chinese medicine Atractylodes, Poria, Alisma, loofah, wide turmeric, gardenia, etc. to spleen dampness, heat-phlegm, promoting blood circulation Tongluo, eliminating fat, eliminate fatigue, lower blood lipids , so that fatty liver can be reversed.
Alcoholic hepatitis often because of the recent focus on high alcohol consumption, there anorexia, nausea, vomiting, and even fever and jaundice, liver enlargement and tenderness occur, but can also have splenomegaly, ascites, edema, and spider angioma and so on. Laboratory tests commonly anemia and leukocytosis, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, r-glutamyl GGT and serum phosphate enzymes. Readily from a variety of complications: ① hepatic failure deteriorated sharply after the onset of disease, clinical performance similar to severe hepatitis, often complicated by hepatic encephalopathy, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, renal failure and secondary infection and death. ② darker jaundice intrahepatic cholestasis, liver obvious swelling, abdominal pain, fever, and serum bilirubin was significantly higher phosphatase, aspartate aminotransferase increased light or moderate. ③ hemolytic syndrome, alcoholism or hyperlipidemia, jaundice, high blood lipids and hemolytic anemia. As a subtype of alcohol-induced hepatitis, stop drinking, the symptoms may disappear. ④ alcohol-induced hypoglycemia, low blood sugar level after a large number of alcohol, the patient showed heart palpitations, sweating, loss of consciousness and so on, to ease after injection of glucose. Alcoholic hepatitis is a traditional Chinese medicine, “jaundice”, “Xie Tong,” “vomiting”, “accumulate” and other areas. Its etiology and pathogenesis of Zongjiu excessive, damage the spleen and stomach, wet muddy endogenous, Yu and of heat, fumigation liver and gallbladder, bile is not Xunchang Road, immersed skin and yellow. Should immediately stop drinking is to combine Chinese and Western medicine treatment. Clinical may be Bupleurum, Scutellaria, Pinellia, Poria, Citrus, Codonopsis, capillaris, Gardenia, rhubarb and other Chinese medicine, Shuganlidan, heat back yellow, combined with Yinzhihuang injection, injection Xingnaojing fluid, Qingkailing intravenous injection, get a good effect.