我国是最早开始用含碘药物治疗地方甲状腺肿的国家。远在唐代孙思邈就提倡用海藻,昆布治疗甲状腺肿。自十九世纪初发现碘元素后,人们才逐步明确地方甲状腺肿系因缺碘所致,并自1831年开始以加碘食盐防治地方甲状腺肿,至今已一百余年。此法适于大面积防治,效果也较可靠,但操作不方便,针对性差为其主要缺点。虽以后有碘化酱油、 China is the earliest country to start treatment of local goiter with iodine-containing drugs. Sun Simiao far in the Tang Dynasty advocated the use of seaweed, kelp treatment of goiter. Since the discovery of iodine in the early nineteenth Century, people gradually gradually due to lack of iodine caused by the Department, and since 1831 with iodized salt prevention and treatment of local goiter, has been more than a hundred years. This method is suitable for large-scale prevention and treatment, the effect is more reliable, but the operation is not convenient, poor targeted for its main drawbacks. Although iodized soy sauce later,