Several key problems in preventing and treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine always emphasize the essence that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD) is a pathological process of healthy qi deficiency and pathogenic factors interaction under the different expression terms.On the whole,the pathogenesis of COPD is the pathogenic factor invading,undermining and ineffective repairing with qi deficiency in lungs,and gradually leading to small airway tissue structural damage and functional decline.The critical stage of prevention is during the pathological process of chronic bronchitis or other similar pathologic stages,for the small airway structural damage and functional decline is not obvious and completely reversible,so appropriate prevention can prevent the formation of COPD.The key of the treatment is to apply the thinking of increasing healthy qi and expelling pathogenic factors, especially in catabasis.Only in this way,it can be formed and reached that correct treatment guide of healthy qi growing and pathogenic factors being expelled,and good short-term and long-term efficacy can be obtained finally.