Amyotrophy Department of Hebei Yiling Hospital is the key specialty of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Over the past twenty years, the department has applied TCM to treating various myatrophies and achieved preferable results. Especially for difficult myatrophic diseases of motor neuron disease, muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis and syringomyelia, the department storms strongholds in defiance of difficulties, brings forth new ideas, and makes a breakthrough in traditional diagnosis and treatment with TCM on amyotrophy related diseases, and under the theoretic guidance of extra meridians and collateral vessels, creates a comparatively perfect therapy system characterized by traditional Chinese medicine. The department has become a reputed specialty for the treatment of myatrophic diseases throughout the country, and over the past twenty years, it has diagnosed and treated over one hundred thousand myatrophic patients both at home and abroad, some of which come from countries and regions like Russia, Japan, Pakistan, Egypt, Poland, Canada and Australia. The substantial diagnosis and treatment of these rare myatrophic diseases enables Yiling Hospital and its myatrophic treatment team to gain plentiful experience in treatment, and some patients of misdiagnoses and improper treatments sighed when they were admitted to the hospital, should they come earlier, much "unnecessary long way" could have been avoid.
        In view of the progressive nature of motor neuron diseases and unsatisfactory efficacy of their traditional therapies, the department carried out continuously in-depth researches and clinical practices, found that the running course of the eight extra meridians was closely related to pathology of motor neuron diseases, and that the eight extra meridians governs other meridians and anterior horn neurons controls body motions,  the flowing and nourishing effects of the eight extra meridian and the coordination of trophic action of nerve and cytokine is closely related, and that the eight extra meridians is also closely related to muscle atrophy, muscular tension lesions, dyspnea and dysarthria and dyspnea such that proposed a unique theoretical system of "diagnose under the guidance of the eight extra meridians, differentiate symptoms combined with the five organs, treats from Sanjiao respectively", and adopted the general therapy principle of "regulating and reinforcing the eight extra meridians, shoring up energy and invigorating flaccid paralysis, nourishing and promoting tissue regeneration", and with modern molecular biology and latest research developments, successfully created Jiweiling and its series of preparations; with substantial clinical practices, innovatively developed a series of therapies of "oriented tissue regeneration, sacral canal treatment, and holistic therapy for dysarthria", which works very well in slowing disease progression, raising patients' life quality, alleviating patients' pain and prolonging life-span.
◎ The key specialty of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (the 10th Five-year Plan, the 11th Five-year Plan and the 12th Five-year Plan)
◎ The National Continuing Education Base for TCM specialty
◎ TCM Treatment Center for Amyotrophy in Hebei
◎ALS Rescue Service Model Base of Chinese Medical Doctor Association