阻塞型睡眠呼吸中止症是呼吸道疾病。緊急狀況如夜間呼吸道塌陷,引起呼吸困難。嚴重狀況可能造成死亡。疾病盛行率為5-10%。中醫可透過中藥、針灸及傷科手法作為輔助治療,改善肺通氣量下降,提升大腦認知功能,本文依照中醫理論闡述對本病的辨證論治,臨床用藥治療疾病的思路。
Obstructive sleep apnea(OSA) is airway disease.Emergency condition like airway collapse at night,lead to dyspnea.Severe condition may lead to death. Disease prevalence is about 5-10%. Chinese medicine can use Chinese herb,acupuncture and chinese traumatic method as an complementary therapy to improvepulmonary ventilation decreasing and increasebrain cognitive function.The article is according to Chinese therapy to do syndrome differentiation and treatment, providing clinical thinking process to use chinese formula to treat the disease.