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This review summarizes recent research on traditional Chinese medicine and integrative medicine for coronary heart disease, highlighting future research orientations and complementary advantages.
This review outlines future research directions for integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine with modern Western medicine in the management of coronary heart disease.
May inform integrative coronary heart disease strategies; leaves open the need for rigorous randomized validation.
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death. As the main treatment of CHD, modern medicine has improved dramatically in recent years. Although researches of TCM and integrative medicine on CHD are witnessed encouraging progress in many respects, the role TCM playing in the prevention and treatment of CHD has been unprecedentedly challenged under such circumstance of the very fast development of modern medicine. In order to share mutual complementary advantages of TCM and western medicine, this review summarizes the relatively prominent researches of TCM and integrative medicine on CHD in recent years, and illuminates the issue of the orientation of the further research of integrative medicine on CHD, including (1) original innovation of TCM etiology and pathogenesis, (2) combination of disease and TCM syndrome, (3) biological basis of TCM syndrome of CHD, (4) clinical design and quality control of integrative medicine research, (5) herb-drug interaction, (6) difficulties and hot issues of modern medicine.
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Li et al. (2013) conducted a review in Coronary heart disease (CHD). Integrative Western and Chinese Medicine was evaluated. This review summarizes recent research on traditional Chinese medicine and integrative medicine for coronary heart disease, highlighting future research orientations and complementary advantages.
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