Traditional Medicine Department 1 (General Practice)

The discipline to which the Department of General Practice of Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Affiliated with Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, belongs has entered the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s “12th Five-Year Plan” key discipline—“Preventive Treatment of Disease in Traditional Chinese Medicine”; its academic influence radiates to major colleges and universities nationwide, and the discipline is a discipline of the Shanghai Traditional Medicine Demonstration Center. It is one of Shanghai’s first-batch TCM general practice training bases and an excellent teaching team of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The Department of Internal Medicine adheres to the treatment principles of “the holistic concept and prevention before illness”, strengthens the clinical features of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and at the same time leverages the advantages of traditional TCM characteristic therapies to provide integrated Chinese-Western medical diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation for the later stages of various acute and severe illnesses and for complex and difficult diseases in internal medicine. Under the guidance of Zhu Liangchun, Xia Xiang, Wang Qingqi, and many other renowned veteran TCM physicians, it has formed a medical and nursing team with a solid clinical foundation, in which teaching and research mutually promote one another, and which is sincere and benevolent. The internal medicine ward has 50 inpatient beds, 2 special-needs beds, and 1 comprehensive treatment room.

【7 Major Specialized Outpatient Clinics for Diseases with TCM Advantages and Distinctive Features】In the internal medicine outpatient department, 7 major TCM specialized outpatient clinics have long been offered for chronic fatigue syndrome, arrhythmia, insomnia, headache, fatty liver, preventive treatment of disease, and sweating disorder, with good clinical outcomes. Among these, fatigue syndrome, arrhythmia, insomnia, and preventive treatment of disease are key specialty diseases with distinctive advantages.

【Comprehensive TCM Treatment Room of the Department of Internal Medicine】Based on the principle of “the holistic concept and prevention before illness”, it regulates the five zang organs and six fu organs, comprehensively applies different types of medications, and combines medicinal plaster application, acupuncture and moxibustion, ear acupoints, infrared physiotherapy, umbilical therapy, rehabilitation and health-preserving exercises, and other non-pharmacological diagnostic and therapeutic techniques to treat miscellaneous internal medicine syndromes, improve clinical efficacy, and improve patients’ quality of life.

【Characteristic Diagnostic and Therapeutic Method of Medicinal Application】The specially prepared medicines are crushed and finely ground, then processed into medicinal pills; combined with therapeutic acupoints, they enter the meridians through the skin’s interstices and reach the zang-fu organs directly, stimulating pathogenic qi to move outward, thereby achieving the effects of treating internal diseases externally and combining prevention with treatment.