Abstract: BACKGROUND: Traditional Chinese medicine has rich experience and unique advantages in the empirical treatment of phlegm-heat and Fu-organs excess syndrome of ischemic stroke. In order to further explore the therapeutic targets and mechanisms of traditional Chinese medicine for this disease, it is crucial to establish a stable and reliable animal model of phlegm-heat and Fu-organs excess syndrome combined with empirical symptoms of ischemic stroke. 
OBJECTIVE: To explore the establishment method and evaluation system of the rat model of ischemic stroke with phlegm-heat and Fu-organ excess syndrome. 
METHODS: Sixty male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into four groups: blank control group (n=12), ischemic stroke group (n=18), disease+syndrome group (n=18), phlegm-heat and Fu-organ excess syndrome group (n=12), all of which were given high-fat diet for 25 days. On the 26th day, the rats in the blank control group and ischemic stroke group were intragastrically given normal saline and high fat diet, while those in the other two groups were intragastrically given autologous feces suspension and high fat diet for 3 continuous days. After gavage, ischemic stroke models were established using the suture method in the ischemic stroke group and disease+syndrome group. The changes in diet, water intake, body mass, body temperature, fecal traits, nasal secretions, sputum in the throat, and tongue image were recorded. Neurological deficits, tongue image, blood lipid levels, morphological changes of brain tissue and carotid artery, and the serum levels of motilin and somatostatin were detected. 
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Compared with the control group, the rats in the disease+syndrome group had shortness of breath, listlessness, irritability, bradykinesia, a large number of secretions around the nose, audible and heavy sputum in the throat, decreased diet and water intake, increased body mass, body temperature, and slingual vein score, decreased fecal pellet count, Bristol score and fecal moisture content, increased serum total cholesterol, triglyceride, low-density lipoprotein and somatostatin levels, decreased motilin level, increased neurological deficit score, significant pathological changes of the carotid artery, and significant morphological changes of the brain tissue. The ischemic stroke group only showed pathological changes of ischemic brain tissue, without the characteristics of phlegm-heat and Fu-organ excess syndrome. The phlegm-heat and Fu-organ excess syndrome group could present with the typical characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine syndromes, without the pathological changes of brain tissue with ischemic stroke. To conclude, the compound modeling method of high-fat induction combined with suture method and autologous feces gavage can establish an animal model of ischemic stroke with phlegm-heat and Fu-organ excess syndrome.

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点：组织构建；骨细胞；软骨细胞；细胞培养；成纤维细胞；血管内皮细胞；骨质疏松；组织工程

Key words: ischemic stroke, phlegm-heat and Fu-organ excess syndrome, combination of disease and syndrome, animal model, symptom factor