Chinese awareness of autism and treatment status.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Chinese awareness of autism and treatment status [Abstract] Along with modern medicine to the diagnosis and treatment of autism, in-depth understanding of the level of improvement in recent years, Chinese medicine on children’s understanding and treatment of autism has also further improved. In the etiology and pathogenesis, the view that autism disease located in the brain, one heart, liver, kidney three dirty closely linked to that congenital deficiency of kidney essence deficiency, God lost the support, and clear thinking unreasonable, the liver lost over article or hair is a disadvantage The main pathogenesis of autism; in treatment, mainly traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture therapy treatment, and in raising children with autism, cognitive and language function to achieve a certain effect. [Keywords:] autism / TCM therapy; medicine, Chinese traditional; children; etiology; pathogenesis Autism, also known as autism, pervasive developmental disorders are a kind of mental disorders in children is a common one [1,2]. Are barriers to social interaction, language, developmental disorders, interests narrow, stereotyped repetitive movements as the main clinical manifestations of the syndrome, a combination of acts. In 1943, American children psychiatrist Leo Kanner first reported the disease [3]. In recent years, various aspects of reported incidence of the disease prompted an upward trend, such as the United States for 10 ~ 20 / million people, Canada is 8 ~ 10 / million people, Japan, 13 ~ 16 / million people. According to project the incidence of foreign and domestic estimated to have 500,000 people with autism to 500 million [4]. Early age onset disease, symptoms of special, there is no curative effect of drugs and training methods. After several decades of continuous research and exploration, at present, the cause of modern medicine for autism research, diagnostic techniques, treatments and so on has been continuously enriched