Is the book "Typhoid Miscellany" the basis of Chinese medicine? It seems that many TCM practitioners use the methods of this book?
Is the book "Typhoid Miscellany" the basis of Chinese medicine? It seems that many TCM practitioners use the methods of this book?
Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases is the foundation of Chinese medicine, where also the precious judgment and prescription, and its pathology, treatment method is used to this day. Sun syndrome is called ephedra, and gui zhi syndrome, shaoyang syndrome is called chaihu syndrome. Yangming syndrome is called Chengsui syndrome, and so on, in short, the infectious disease typhoid fever is divided into six different syndromes, depending on the disease treatment. For example, headache, body heat, without sweating use ephedra soup, while with sweating change to gui zhi soup. For chest fullness, tinnitus, and body heat, use Chai Hu Tang. This Yang Ming syndrome, dry stools, thirst, short and reddish urine, all these conditions, should be examined in detail without any ambiguity at all. Apart from these six diseases, they can be diagnosed as other miscellaneous diseases. Nowadays, Chinese medicine practitioners also understand. But I have seen an old Chinese doctor. It is diagnosed according to the theory of typhoid fever. It is treated with these formulas, some people say too rigid, but the diagnosis is accurate, the medicine to the disease. Typhoid fever theory is a basis for treatment, Zhang Zhongjing is the ancestor of the physician.
Zhang Zhongjing as a person:good learning, to later generations of medical students to show the direction. ,, when young, worshiped a teacher to learn, afraid of people do not teach, and changed the name, there is a sick person, often abdominal pain, yellow face and thin. Zhang Zhongjing's teacher was asked to go to the clinic,, the teacher through the four diagnostic, was designated as 縧 worms, used the stone letter. He went home and told Zhang Zhongjing the amount of medicine used. When Zhang Zhongjing heard that, he said, tomorrow he will come to ask you again. After taking the medicine, the patient went to have a bowel movement, and the worm was discharged externally, but not finished, and the head of the worm went back into the abdomen. Because the teacher told him the amount of medicine, Zhang Zhongjing thought to himself that the amount of medicine was too small to cure him. After a few days, the sick man came back to ask for it again. Then the teacher knew that his disciple was Zhang Zhongjing.
On the basis of the theory of typhoid fever, later medical researchers, generation after generation, and created a lot of sects, research out of different prescriptions, not dead according to those prescriptions to prescribe. For example, Zhu Danxi created the theory that yang is often in excess and yin is often in deficiency. The first is to use Er Chen Tang to treat phlegm, but of course there are additions and subtractions, four things Tang for blood, four gentleman Tang for qi, flat stomach powder for food, plus a six Yu Tang, treating qi in the blood, and blood in the qi. There is also the Typhoid Plague Article, and the Warm Disease Article. In fact, the principles of these books are also associated with Zhang Zhongjing's Six Classics of Typhoid Transmission. In the Song and Jin Dynasties, there was a Mr. Li Dongyuan, who used the method of tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, and ascending the yang and dispersing the fire. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Mr. Xue Lizai, Mr. Li Zhongzi, Mr. Zhang Jiebin, and other old medical practitioners had their own doctrines, but still based on the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine and the Book of Typhoid Fever, and added explanations to them. Create their own theories.
I am a clinical Chinese medicine practitioner, and I often use sutra prescriptions in my clinical treatment. I think Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Typhoid Fever is not only a foundation but also a supreme clinical treasure book for clinical treatment!
1. Red ancient to date, where the big Chinese medicine, everyone clinicians are not recommended, typhoid fever and miscellaneous theories of this book. Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases inside the prescription after thousands of years of clinical practice, clinical efficacy is certain.
2. According to the six meridian identification of typhoid fever, clinical treatment, can be complicated into simple, can be clear, the most important thing is a good dialectic good with, with the effect of good to make. In fact, many beginners to learn traditional Chinese medicine can also be used in addition to the scriptures with very good results out.
3. The theory of typhoid fever and miscellaneous diseases emphasizes the combination of pulse and symptoms, the identification of evidence, and the flexibility of clinical treatment. The most important thing is that the idea of treatment and the thinking of adaptability, so that clinical workers have a good adaptable rules and get effective guidance.
4. If the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is a book of preaching and reasoning, then the theory of typhoid fever is a clinical treatment of medical manuals, very grounded, of course, after thousands of years of practice, the most important, the main essence is the treatment of effective formula. The formula is good.
I am a Chinese Medicine Second Sheep, a clinical herbalist who is constantly learning the classics and using them.

The Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever is a classic work of traditional Chinese medicine before the Han Dynasty, which includes the Treatise on Typhoid Fever and the Essentials of the Golden Chamber. This book is based on the theory of "Nei Jing" and "Nan Jing" combined with practical clinical experience, creatively linking the rationale, method, formula, and medicine of Chinese medicine, effectively guiding the identification and treatment of exopathogens and miscellaneous diseases, and making extremely important contributions to the development of medicine for later generations.
Since the book is compiled of basic theories, it is a mandatory prescription book for learning Chinese medicine.
If we compare the medicine of later generations to the branches and leaves of a big tree, then Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases is the main pole of the tree.
Subsequent generations of accomplished Chinese medicine practitioners have all emphasized the study and research of this book. From the Jin Dynasty to the present, more than 1,700 Chinese and foreign scholars have compiled, annotated, researched and played out the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" and "The Essentials of the Golden Chamber" into books, which have also been widely circulated overseas.
It is worth pondering, however, that the substance of the six meridians, the core of the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, is still inconclusive, with a wide range of opinions, making it doubly difficult for learners.
The core of the study of Typhoid Fever is the 'substance of the six meridians'. Without knowing the biochemical principles of the six meridians and the evolutionary relationship of the six obscenities, one will never be able to fully decipher its diagnosis and treatment even after learning old age.
In addition, this book Qian hundred diseases, do not limit to typhoid fever, if it is included in the sect, then the value of the book is greatly winked down.
The Treatise on Typhoid Fever can be described as a clinical guide to medication and a compendium of medical cases.
The format of the important articles is "so-and-so symptom" for "so-and-so disease" with "so-and-so formula".
A short thousand words, more than a hundred prescriptions, covering almost all the diseases of the time. It contains explanations of the disease mechanism, how to administer the medicine, how to formulate the prescription, and what herbs to use, all of which are said one by one.
Although the cause of illness is not explained much, or even not mentioned. However, it can be seen from between the use of medication, so that more reflect the "Typhoid Fever" focus on clinical, focus on the patient, people-oriented view of Chinese medicine.
But unfortunately, because of the long history of the loss of tampering is common, while the gap between ancient and modern texts is very large, the successive generations of medical practitioners of typhoid fever commentary as many as hair, so that the "Typhoid Fever Treatise" has become more and more ambiguous.
More mysteries of Typhoid are being solved.
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