Pulmonary Diseases Ward（南岗总院）

Introduction to the Pulmonary Disease Department

(2018.11)

The Pulmonary Disease Department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine was established in 2007. As a clinical department of a teaching hospital, it undertakes clinical care, teaching and research. It is a national drug clinical-trial base and has participated in and led several large clinical observations of medicines for respiratory diseases. The department has advanced, complete equipment; a well-structured medical team with highly skilled techniques; highly qualified professionals and excellent service; and stable research directions. It treats acute and chronic respiratory diseases, emphasizes treating both root and manifestation, has distinctive Chinese-medicine features, and is skilled in acupoint application, herbal paste prescriptions, acupoint injection and traditional Chinese-medicine rehabilitation training.

Professor Qu Qisheng, director of the department and a master’s supervisor, has received honors including Heilongjiang Health System March 8th Red-Banner Woman and Outstanding Department Director of the Second Hospital of Chinese Medicine, and has twice won the second prize for scientific and technological progress from the Heilongjiang Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The department has 7 physicians, all holding doctoral or master’s degrees, 4 of whom teach in the teaching and research section of Chinese internal medicine. It emphasizes talent development, organizes departmental study, participates in academic organizations and conferences, and regularly sends outstanding medical and nursing staff to renowned domestic hospitals for study and training, improving overall quality and diagnostic and treatment skills, keeping pace with advanced domestic and international standards and further improving care for critical illness. We maintain good collaborative relationships with many famous hospitals inside and outside the province and will continue using them to provide patients with consultation and referral advice and assistance while improving our own diagnostic and treatment level. The wards use human-centered management, place patients first, highlight Chinese-medicine features, and have achieved a good reputation and clinical results.

The entire department takes quality and service first as its principle and specializes in treating respiratory and cardiovascular-cerebrovascular diseases with Chinese medicine and acupuncture. With scientific management, advanced equipment, distinctive diagnosis and treatment, careful nursing, affordable prices and satisfactory results, we serve patients with respiratory diseases!

Distinctive traditional Chinese-medicine treatments:

1. Acupoint application: Based on the Chinese-medicine theory of treating disease before it occurs, the department encourages patients with lung-system diseases to make health preservation their top priority. Acupoint application integrates meridians, acupoints, medicines and magnetic therapy. It developed from the Sanjiu and Sanfu plaster treatment for treating winter diseases in summer. Following the Shu-Mu combination and near-and-distant acupoint principles, it selects back-shu, front-mu, airway and paranasal acupoints of the Lung Meridian, such as Feishu, Zhongfu, Tiantu, Dazhui and Yingxiang. Medicines and magnetic particles act directly on selected body-surface points, travel through the meridians to the organs and connect the exterior and interior. It is suitable for chronic bronchitis, emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma, cor pulmonale, upper respiratory tract infection, interstitial pneumonia, pulmonary fibrosis, pharyngitis, rhinitis and other lung-system diseases. Herbal acupoint plasters may be used in both summer and winter. During an acute attack, they may be combined with medication for the acute attack. The therapy relieves cough, transforms phlegm and calms wheezing through local acupoint effects, while meridian circulation regulates the body’s yin-yang and qi-blood balance, enhances immunity, prevents recurrence of respiratory disease and controls chronic disease progression. Combined with oral Chinese medicine, it has excellent effects.

2. Herbal paste prescriptions: For patients with chronic lung-system diseases such as bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, obstructive emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary fibrosis and cor pulmonale, and with dysfunction of the heart, liver, spleen or kidneys caused by these diseases, the department prescribes individualized pastes. Tailored to each person and syndrome, they strongly nourish deficiencies of qi, blood, yin and yang and regulate organ qi and blood. Paste prescriptions, also called decocted paste or nourishing paste, are one of the ancient dosage forms (pills, powders, pastes and pellets). Oral pastes are repeatedly decocted from prepared herbs, concentrated after removing residue, and solidified with auxiliary ingredients such as donkey-hide gelatin and tortoise-shell gelatin; they can be taken long term. Compared with decoctions, they cover more diseases and signs, preserve medicinal properties better, last longer and are convenient. When prescribed according to syndrome differentiation, they relieve symptoms, improve quality of life and have clear advantages. They are not merely tonics or an accumulation of supplements, but an overall regulation of bodily function through individualized formula combination and special processing.

3. Herbal acupoint injection: Different medicines are injected into corresponding acupoints to treat respiratory diseases. Antispasmodic and antiasthmatic medicines can rapidly relieve wheezing and shortness of breath; lung-dispersing and cough-stopping medicines can rapidly relieve dry cough without sputum. For patients with long-term, recurrent chronic respiratory disease, qi-benefiting and pathogen-resisting medicines may be injected at acupoints to enhance immunity and strengthen healthy qi.

Yang Shanjun, director of the Pulmonary Disease Department; chief physician, master of medicine, young renowned traditional Chinese-medicine physician of the province, master’s supervisor

Social appointments: member of the Chinese Medical Doctors Association; member of the Respiratory Diseases Expert Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association Branch of Integrative Medicine Physicians; member of the Respiratory Disease Rehabilitation Committee of the Chinese Medical Education Association; member of the Lung-System Specialty Branch of the Heilongjiang Association of Chinese Medicine; standing member of the Respiratory Committee of the Heilongjiang Association of Integrative Medicine; member of the Respiratory Medicine Committee of the Heilongjiang Geriatric Medicine Research Association; standing member of the Mental and Psychological Health Committee of the Heilongjiang Association of Integrative Medicine; council member of the Heilongjiang Collateral Disease Society; member of the Heilongjiang Longjiang Medical School Research Association; member of its Committee for Folk Characteristic Diagnosis and Treatment Technologies; member of the Sleep Committee of the Heilongjiang Ethnic Medicine Association; member of the Hematology Committee of the Heilongjiang Geriatric Medicine Research Association; and member of the Clinical Efficacy Evaluation Branch of the Heilongjiang Association of Integrative Medicine.

Academic position: More than 10 years of clinical, research and teaching work. He has conducted in-depth research on systemic lung diseases and achieved good treatment results. He has completed 2 department- or bureau-level projects, 3 monographs and 1 patent, and published more than 10 papers in professional journals.

Conditions treated: He specializes in integrated Chinese and Western medicine for pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis, lung cancer, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary hypertension, cor pulmonale, pleural effusion, pneumothorax, sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome, acute respiratory distress syndrome, respiratory failure and other respiratory diseases.

Wang Yue, deputy director of the pulmonary disease ward; master of medicine, attending physician

Social appointments: member of the Respiratory Disease Rehabilitation Committee of the Chinese Medical Education Association; standing member of the Lung-System Specialty Branch of the Heilongjiang Association of Chinese Medicine; standing member of the Respiratory Committee of the Heilongjiang Association of Integrative Medicine; member of the Respiratory Disease Management Committee of the Heilongjiang Hospital Association; standing member of the Youth Committee of the Paste-Therapy Branch of the Heilongjiang Association of Integrative Medicine; member of the Respiratory Medicine Committee of the Heilongjiang Geriatric Medicine Research Association; member of the Allergy Committee of the Heilongjiang Medical Doctors Association; and others.

Conditions treated: She specializes in Chinese medicine, acupuncture and rehabilitation therapy for acute and chronic cough, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, bronchiectasis, cor pulmonale, respiratory failure, lung cancer and other acute and chronic respiratory diseases.