Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Pulmonary Diseases Department

Department development history: In 2007, drawing on previous work experience and combining clinical needs with basic research, the department positioned its development direction as the TCM-characteristic treatment of lung diseases (chronic phase, persistent phase, and remission phase), including cough, asthma, COPD, etc. In 2008, the Key Research Laboratory of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (chronic cough and wheezing of lung diseases) was established. In 2013, on the basis of the key research laboratory, the Second Department of TCM Lung Diseases (Second Department of TCM Respiratory Medicine) was founded, with Professor Li Youlin, director of the key research laboratory (chronic cough and wheezing of lung diseases), serving as department director, further bringing into play the clinical advantages of TCM through innovation in TCM-characteristic treatment methods for lung diseases. When the department was founded, clinical medical work was mainly outpatient and outpatient treatment room work, with Professor Li Youlin leading the experts in consultations. In July 2014, through clinical observation and work summaries, combined with the occurrence, development, and evolution patterns of respiratory diseases, a new idea for the prevention and treatment of allergic diseases with Chinese medicine was proposed, and an application was made to the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission for a 'Beijing Key Laboratory'; after approval it entered the trial construction period. In July 2015, with the strong support and assistance of the hospital, the Second Department of TCM Lung Diseases officially began inpatient work, concretely applying the 'holistic zang-fu syndrome differentiation view with lung and spleen at the core' to the clinical treatment of lung diseases and allergic diseases, achieving good clinical efficacy. At this point, the department's construction trended toward a mature comprehensive department. In December 2017, the Second Department of TCM Lung Diseases (Second Department of TCM Respiratory Medicine) was officially renamed the Second Division of TCM Lung Diseases, and officially became a component of our hospital's Respiratory Center, fully coordinating with other divisions of the Respiratory Center to undertake the hospital's medical, educational, and research work for respiratory diseases, contributing to building our hospital's Respiratory Center into a leading unit in the field of respiratory disease prevention and treatment in China.

Department personnel composition:

The department director is Li Youlin, and the head nurse is Shi Jing. There is 1 chief physician, 6 attending physicians, 1 resident physician, 6 nurse supervisors, and 8 nurse practitioners. All department physicians are doctoral students (have doctoral degrees).

Director Li Youlin: Doctor of Medicine, chief physician, Grade 2 professor, doctoral supervisor, postdoctoral mentor, and adjunct professor at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. Member of the China Zhi Gong Party and a central committee member of the party's Special Committee on Medicine and Health. He has served as department director since May 2010 and currently holds: Director of the Second Division of TCM Lung Diseases of China-Japan Friendship Hospital and Deputy Director of the Respiratory Center, Director of the Key Research Laboratory of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (chronic cough and wheezing of lung diseases), and Director of the Beijing Key Laboratory for the Prevention and Treatment of Allergic Diseases with Chinese Medicine. Concurrent positions (9 in total): standing committee member of the Lung Diseases Professional Committee of the China Association of Chinese Medicine, vice chairman of the Clinical Research and Statistics Professional Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, vice chairman of the Respiratory Diseases Professional Committee of the Beijing Association of Integrative Medicine, etc.

Director Li Youlin of the Second Division of TCM Lung Diseases has worked continuously on the front line of TCM clinical practice for more than 30 years, growing from a resident physician to chief physician and Grade 2 professor. He has continuously learned from classics and famous physicians of past dynasties, and has been deeply instructed by TCM luminaries such as Academician Wang Yongyan, national TCM masters Chao Enxiang and Xu Runsan, and famous TCM teachers Tian Delu, Wu Weiping, and Jiang Liangduo. He strives to improve the level of TCM theory and practice in clinical work, which inspired and consolidated his confidence in TCM theory, in the advantages and characteristics of TCM, in TCM methods, and in TCM efficacy. In clinical practice of lung and related allergic diseases: he correctly recognized the clinical features of deficiency-excess, cold-heat in lung and related allergic diseases — 'yang is usually insufficient, true cold with false heat, floating deficiency yang, heat above and cold below'; deepened the understanding of the root-branch (ben-biao) relationship of disease and revealed the root-branch law that 'the branch arises from the root, the branch's retreat also lies in the root, and promoting the root suppresses the branch'; pioneered the 'holistic zang-fu syndrome differentiation view with lung and spleen at the core'; innovated the method of treating different diseases with the same method for lung and related allergic diseases; established the treatment principle of 'warm-moist acrid-metal root cultivation' for lung and related allergic diseases; created several pure-TCM comprehensive treatment plans featuring a series of characteristic TCM external therapies; formulated TCM diagnosis/treatment and technical operation standards, and established characteristic clinical pathways.

As the first completer, with China-Japan Friendship Hospital as the first completing unit, Professor Li Youlin won 1 second prize of the 2012 National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 second prize of the 2011 Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award, and 1 first prize of the 2011 Science and Technology Progress Award of the China Association of Chinese Medicine. Professor Li Youlin's team has led a total of 23 research projects to date. The project research achievements have obtained 3 invention patents and 12 invention patent applications; 1 copyright; 4 national and municipal awards; more than 100 articles published in core journals, including 12 SCI papers.

Outpatient and inpatient setup: the department offers the Second Division of TCM Lung Diseases VIP clinic, renowned experts clinic, Second Division of TCM Lung Diseases general clinic, TCM internal medicine general clinic, and preventive treatment of disease (zhi wei bing) specialty clinic; 13 inpatient beds; the department comprises several components such as the Second Division of TCM Lung Diseases outpatient featured treatment room, the Key Research Laboratory of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (chronic cough and wheezing of lung diseases), and the Beijing Key Laboratory for the Prevention and Treatment of Allergic Diseases with Chinese Medicine.

Department diagnostic and treatment features: the Second Division of TCM Lung Diseases takes chronic cough and wheezing and allergic diseases as advantageous disease types, such as chronic cough, bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchiectasis and pulmonary interstitial fibrosis, allergic diseases (allergic rhinitis, urticaria, eczema), etc. Oral Chinese herbal medicine combined with characteristic TCM external therapies is the basic work content of the department, including individualized TCM syndrome differentiation-based herbal prescriptions based on 'holistic syndrome differentiation with lung and spleen at the core,' combined with TCM external therapy series such as the 'warm-moist acrid-metal root cultivation gunpowder transdermal series therapy,' 'warm-moist acrid-metal root cultivation meridian-point ironing/compress series therapy,' 'warm-moist acrid-metal root cultivation nasal hot washing and packing therapy,' 'warm-moist acrid-metal root cultivation pharyngeal sealing therapy,' and 'warm-moist acrid-metal root cultivation nebulized inhalation.' For chronic cough, bronchial asthma, and allergic diseases: reducing recurrence or achieving cure; for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchiectasis, and pulmonary interstitial fibrosis: reducing recurrence, improving long-term efficacy, improving survival, and delaying disability.

Current specialty clinic: preventive treatment of disease (zhi wei bing) clinic.

Department research achievements: since its establishment, the department has achieved a series of research results, presiding over clinical and experimental studies including the National Science and Technology Major Project (major new drug development), national science and technology support projects, National Natural Science Foundation general projects, Beijing Natural Science Foundation key projects, National Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund projects, industry special projects of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission's 'Ten Diseases, Ten Drugs' R&D projects. As of January 2021, the department has completed 20 projects, with 3 projects in progress. It has obtained 3 invention patents, 12 invention patent applications, 1 copyright, and 4 national and municipal awards. More than 100 articles have been published, including 12 SCI papers.

Department teaching: Professor Li Youlin is a doctoral supervisor and postdoctoral mentor at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. Since 2005 he has supervised 16 classes of master's students; since 2008, 12 classes of doctoral students. Among them: 18 doctoral students have graduated and 4 are currently enrolled; 34 master's students have graduated and 7 are currently enrolled; 1 postdoctoral researcher has been supervised. In addition, as a clinical teaching base of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, the department undertakes the teaching of 'Internal Medicine of Chinese Medicine' and 'Emergency Medicine of Chinese Medicine' at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, as well as the internship and clinical attachment teaching of international and domestic undergraduates.

To date, the department has supervised more than 430 standardized residency trainee physicians, with 6 teachers participating in the teaching. In recent years, Director Li Youlin has mentored 6 apprentices. A total of 3 advanced-study physicians have been admitted.

Department honors: the department won 1 second prize of the 2012 National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 second prize of the 2011 Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award, and 1 first prize of the 2011 Science and Technology Progress Award of the China Association of Chinese Medicine.

Other important matters:

1. Poverty alleviation free clinics: From July to September 2018, Director Li Youlin made more than ten round trips between Beijing and Yulin, Shaanxi, to carry out poverty alleviation free clinic activities, treating more than a thousand patients and writing the work report 'Analysis of the Incidence of Allergic Rhinitis and Other Allergic Diseases in the Yulin Area of Shaanxi and TCM Intervention,' and holding a themed health education activity entitled 'Allergic Rhinitis in Yulin.'

2. COVID-19 support for Wuhan: From February 7 to April 7, 2020, Dr. Long Hongzhu, attending physician of the department, went to Wuhan as a member of the hospital's fifth batch of medical teams supporting Hubei to fight the COVID-19 epidemic.

3. Touring medical services: From August 1 to 31, 2020, Dr. Yan Yue, attending physician of the department, participated in the health poverty alleviation touring medical service organized by the National Health Commission.

Location in the hospital: the department's outpatient clinic is located in consultation rooms 5 and 10 on the 1st floor of Building M; the inpatient ward is on the 6th floor of Building M; the outpatient treatment room is the Second Division of TCM Lung Diseases treatment room to the right of the cashier on the 4th floor of the outpatient building.

Department telephone: outpatient: 010-84205285; ward: 010-84206246; nurses' station: 010-84205216.