祖国古典医学,虽然沒有肝硬变这个名辞,但早在兩千年以前,就对肝硬变的症狀有較詳細的記述。根据不同的症狀,把它分別列入积聚、癥瘕、血痹、虫症、單腹脹、臌脹,黄疸等門类。对本病記載,如:“臌脹者,腹脹身皆大,大与膚脹等也,色蒼黄,腹筋起,此其候也。”又:“肝病目眩胁支滿,肝脹者胁下痛。”(黄帝內經)腹大、腹筋起可能是指腹部靜脉曲張而言,也說明肋下脹滿及疼痛等症狀。又如晚近記載有:“血痣初起,其形如痣,渐大如豆,……此由肝經怒火郁血凝集而成。血膨之症,胁滿小腹脹,滿身有血絲缕,煩燥漱水,小便赤,大便 Classical medicine in the motherland, although not the name of cirrhosis, but as early as two thousand years ago, the symptoms of cirrhosis are described in more detail. According to different symptoms, it is included in the accumulation, Syndrome, blood paralysis, insect disease, single bloating, swelling, jaundice and other categories. The disease records, such as: “bloating who abdominal distension are big, big and skin swelling and so on, yellow color, abdominal tendons, this also.” And: Lower pain. “(Huangdi Nei Jing) abdominal large, abdominal tendons may mean abdominal varicose veins, but also shows the ribs under the fullness and pain and other symptoms. Another example is the recent record contains: ”blood mole at the beginning, the shape of such as mole, gradually as beans, ... ... This by the liver by anger Yu blood coagulation formed. Bloating disease, threatened with small abdominal distension, covered with bloodshot eyes Lost, irritable rinse water, red urine, stool