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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 22 Chinese medicine treatment of radiation pneumonitis Abstract in medicine, the pathogenesis of radiation pneumonitis with hot drugs, yin deficiency, blood stasis mainly used in heat treatment of detoxification, Yin lungs, blood circulation such as law, clinical significant side effects. With the pathological mechanism of this disease and further research and the involvement of modern and advanced experimental methods, showing that Chinese medicine treatment of this disease powerful advantage. Keywords: Chinese medicine treatment of radiation pneumonitis heat-toxin stasis Radiation pneumonitis is due to malignant tumors in the radiation therapy process, the exposure of normal tissue damage arising from inflammation, cancer radiation therapy to the chest during a common complication. Its occurrence and severity of lung irradiated volume, radiation dose, irradiation area, whether combined with chemotherapy, clinical sub-types, with or without history of chronic lung disease, individual differences and other factors. The disease belongs to Chinese medicine cough, Fei Wei and other areas of clinical practice can be seen coughing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, shortness of breath, fever and other symptoms. If not effectively controlled, chronic lung fibrosis occurs. Doctors to use more antibiotics plus high-dose hormone therapy, and achieved some results, but the larger side. Chinese medicine treatment for radiation pneumonia obvious advantages. 1 Etiology and Pathogenesis of Modern medicine, the incidence of radiation pneumonitis have the following two mechanisms [1]: ① the traditional theory of radiation pneumonitis. The doctrine that the radiation exposure of local cytokine production, leading to pulmonary fibrosis, the histological changes of small blood vessels and lung injury in type Ⅱ cells. ② disseminated theory of radiation pneumonitis. The theory that radiation pneumonitis produced by t