Said Chinese medicine for smoking cessation

ZhengFangJiang Gansu Provincial Hospital of traditional Chinese Medicine

        Since the Ming Dynasty Wanli, tobacco spread from Philippines to China, there is Danbagu, Acacia grass, gold and many other titles of discharge. Zhang Jingyue was famous doctors in their income" of Jing Yue book·materia medica was", it is" to avoid the miasma, by the cold virus" role. To the Qing Dynasty, the tobacco has gradually evolved into a kind of " the Lords of literati and the catch women, are addicted to tobacco smoking behavior". This caused the medical scientist and a person with breadth of vision attention, and initiation of early cessation of consciousness. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty doctor Zhang Lu in the" on" said:" the poisonous gas, fumigate viscera, parade main and collateral channels, without strong fire gas dispersion of worry?" Another doctor Wu Yiluo in the" compendium of Materia from new" will be classified as class tobacco poison, issued a " health should be far" warning.

        Qing Dynasty writer Li Boyuan in" South Pavilion notes, volume five" contains:" the emperor Qian Long quit the historical Beijing Daguan thermophilic Danbagu in ten and eight or nine, Qian Long L. This is cool, as the Fed cannot sleep. For no reason after suffering from cough, doctor said: ' is this severe disease in lung, who Danbagu also '. Imperial Chamberlain doesn't return, not much good has disease." The emperor Qian Long eat tobacco have a cough, listen to the doctor to discourage smoking cessation after the disease was cured, cough, leaving the court to quit a test case.

        Ming, Qing medical experts were also observed in tobacco to human toxicity. Such as" Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" records, tobacco" upsetting, become unconscious ... ..." The word" Materia Medica" record" occasionally eat, the gas closing, bored out as dead, is a good thing just know". Doctor Zhang Jingyue said:" the smoke can dispel evil, gas consumption, also" draw" smoke also harms". Zhao Xuemin of the Qing Dynasty in the" compendium of Materia Medica" gleaning", points out that tobacco consumption of lung damage the blood, Yin people by its curse instead of feeling", and a list of tobacco harm human organs of the six kinds of diseases. For example, friends Zhang Shouzhuang daily morning cough spit sputum, medicine treatment. Then do not smoke, even " morning cough, no sputum saliva all day long, mental health diet meal, multiplication". This is the first recorded case of smoking cessation from medical case.

        In the Chinese history of smoking control in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, the emperor Chongzhen emperor Kangxi had decreed that the smoking ban, but the order and prohibitions, two administrative intervention have not worked. The Zhao Xuemin book of Zhang Shouzhuang and Qianlong quit under the pen of Li Boyuan records, to tobacco smoking causes disease after smoking cessation consciousness produce tobacco control in China, is the earliest history of the case.

        Nowadays, Chinese government already to the WHO Framework Convention on tobacco control." Promise", the Ministry of health, State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine, Health Department of the general logistics, armed police force has been recently jointly issued" on the2011national health care system comprehensive ban on smoking decisions", put forward by 2010, and all the health administrative department and at least 50% of the medical and health institutions to build a smoke-free unit, to ensure that the2011health administrative departments and medical institutions comprehensive smoking ban target.

        Traditional Chinese medicine to control smoking can do? Some a person with breadth of vision have been adopted in clinical practice, summed up many smoking cessation recipe, such as smoking, smoking cessation, smoking tea soup sugar, alcohol etc.. How to spread the application of the traditional Chinese medicine product, we need to be workers in Chinese medicine is explored ceaselessly in practice, give full play to traditional Chinese medicine 's characteristics and advantages, for China's tobacco control efforts to make positive contribution.