Abstract: | Objective:To investigate the differences of syndrome characteristics between middle aged and senile patients with acute cerebral infarction by comparing clinic symptoms and syndromes in 170 patients with the disease. Method: All the patients were divided into the middle aged group or the senile group according to their age. Then the symptoms, condition of tongues and pulses were recorded, and the different types of syndromes were differentiated. Result: The syndromes of deficiency of Qi & blood stasis were the most in both groups. Several syndromes were often occurred together in the senile group ,but single syndrome in the middle aged group. Conclusion: Both deficiency of Qi & blood stasis plays important role in the pathogenesis & pathologic change of both middle aged and senile patients with the disease. But in senile patients, the deficiency of Qi & blood stasis is caused by deficiency of constitution that can lead to endogenous noxious factors produced, which include blood stasis. In middle aged patients, the blood stasis is mostly caused by excessive pathogenic factors and deficiency of Qi is the predisposing cause of the disease. |