Traditional Chinese Medicine Treating Dilated Cardiomyopathy: A Literature Review.

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), as a difficult problem in modern medical treatment, has become an important cardiovascular disease threatening human beings all over the world with an increasing incidence rate and mortality. Conservative drug therapy is mainly used in clinical practice, but due to unavoidable adverse reactions such as low blood pressure, it is often difficult to achieve satisfactory prognosis. Traditional Chinese medicine has the characteristics of syndrome differentiation and multi-target treatment for DCM, with few adverse reactions and certain advantages. It has achieved good therapeutic effects in clinical practice. Therefore, we summarized and analyzed the clinical evidence and mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of DCM, and combined with the current research status of this disease to analyze the problems and shortcomings, in order to provide more ideas and methods for the treatment of DCM with traditional Chinese medicine.