[Systemic inflammatory reaction and its prevention and treatment with integrative Chinese and Western medicine]

The inflammatory reaction is the important pathologic foundation of growth and development of many diseases. Previously, anti-pathogen is the chief treating principle on infectious diseases, while anti-inflammation is the supplementary one. With the deep-going investigation on the effect of inflammatory reaction in the pathological process of severe infectious diseases in recent decade, especially the advance of concept on systemic inflammatory reaction syndrome (SIRS), anti-inflammatory treatment has become the vital link for comprehensive intervention therapy of severe infectious disease. Close correlation is also presented between numerous non-infectious diseases with systemic inflammatory reaction, e.g., atherosclerosis is one kind of inflammatory reaction, there are effects of many inflammatory factors on the metabolic process in patients with obesity. The regulation of Chinese herbs on inflammatory reaction may be one of the well cut-in points of integrative Chinese and Western medical study of anti-inflammation.