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[CHEN Shiduo's heart-based treatment of impotence: Analysis of its therapeutic system and value]
1Department of Urology, Nanjing Jiangning Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211199, China.
Abstract:
CHEN Shiduo's Bian Zheng Lu (Differentiation of Syndromes) fully expounds the etiology and pathogenesis of psychogenic impotence and the system of therapeutic prescriptions with the cases of successful heart-based treatment of the disease. Aging-related decline, excessive attention, indulgence-induced damage to essence, and mental frustration are the main causes of psychogenic impotence, and heart-fire deficiency and heart-qi stagnation are primarily involved in its two pathological types of deficiency and excess. The chief therapies for psychogenic impotence have fixed combinations to nourish heart-qi, promote heart-will, assist kidney-tonification and communicate the heart and kidney. CHEN's theory plays an important enlightening role in contemporary clinical and scientific research, his therapeutic prescriptions have been widely verified from bed to bench, and his unique system of heart-based treatment of impotence is proved of scientificity and advanced nature.
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