blood retention
2.Part One Research backgroundIt is believed that congential defect, improper diet, overstrain and emotional maladjustment are essential etiological factors of DN in Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM), as deficiency of ben (deficiency ofyin, yang, qi, blood, lung, spleen and kidney) with excess syndrome of biao (retention of dampness and blood stasis) is the basic pathogenesis.
4.On the base of reviewing treatment and research on AFL by TCM and modern medicine, this article considers that people with liver Qi deficiency is liable to suffer from AFL and that alcohol toxicity can injure liver directly as pathogenic factor, the critical pathology is liver Qi deficiency and damp pathogen retention with blood stasis obstructing blood vessels.

