March 04, 2024
1. Overview.
Malignant lymphoma is a malignant tumor which originates from lymphoid reticular tissue and is closely related to immunity. It mainly occurs in lymph nodes, and can also occur in extra-lymph nodes and non-lymphoid tissues, such as lung, stomach, intestine, bone, skin, head and neck organs, male and female reproductive organs, brain and bone marrow. Lymphoma can be divided into Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (non-Hodgkin lymphoma, NHL). There is no syndrome name of malignant lymphoma in traditional Chinese medicine, but according to the description of the disease with enlarged lymph nodes, the common syndromes in traditional Chinese medicine include "dysphagia", "dishonor", "stone gangrene", "evil nucleus" and so on. Its common feature is that the skin color is unchanged, painless and innocuous, all belong to the category of "gangrene" in traditional Chinese medicine.
2. Etiology and pathogenesis.
1. At present, the etiology of malignant lymphoma tends to be the result of multiple factors. The etiology of the virus is widely studied in lymphoma, and it is closely related to lymphoma, such as EB virus, human T-cell lymphoma virus (HTLV), and human herpesvirus VI. There are high doses of radiation in physical causes. Chemical causes such as exposure to chlorophenol, benzene, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, some drugs and immunosuppressants used in organ transplantation. Among the immune factors, it is worth mentioning that AIDS caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has a high incidence in western countries, and the chance of complicated with lymphoma is also high. Genetic factors are also possible. In short, when the disease resistance of the body is low, it is more conducive to the role of external factors.
two。. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that all patients with enlarged lymph nodes are related to "phlegm", the so-called "no phlegm without nucleation". And the cause of phlegm is due to.
3. Second, one is cold and damp condensed into phlegm, and the other is hot boiled body fluid into phlegm. Ordinary spleen and stomach weakness, water dampness transfer dereliction of duty, dampness depression in the inside, for a long time into dampness poison. Dampness does not turn into phlegm, and phlegm and toxin coalesce for a long time, which leads to cancer; emotional discomfort leads to stagnation of liver qi, accumulation of phlegm, stagnation of heat, burning fluid for phlegm, and if it binds to evil poison, it is an evil nucleus; emotional failure, mental depression, or anger injury of liver qi, qi block, so that the blood is not smooth, vein stasis, qi stagnation, daily accumulation, agglomeration is accumulation; disease evil lingering for a long time, consumption of qi, blood and yin. Long-term disease and kidney, kidney yin deficiency, water does not contain wood, deficiency fire internal movement, burning fluid for phlegm, phlegm-fire phase for swelling nucleus; disease to the late stage of evil nucleus, long-term disease qi and blood consumption. In short, the disease lies in phlegm, inducing factors care about depression, phlegm depression mutual accumulation, qi and blood stagnation, consumption of qi and blood, damage to yin and yang, can lead to qi and blood yin and yang deficiency.
