Zhang Zhong Jing
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Zhang Zhong Jing, author of "On Cold Disease", the Shang Han Lun was the Hippocrates of Chinese medicine.[1] He lived from 115-218 AD. The Shang Han Lun or Shang Han Bin Lun provides the earliest framework for diagnosis and treatment of diseases from exterior wind-cold. This corresponds roughly to viral infections affecting the respiratory tract. Although his famous classic does also discuss infections caused by invasions of wind-heat and their treatment, a comprehensive theory of exterior diseases from Wind-Heat was not developed until the late 1600s. [2]
The canonical Shang Han Lun lays out a sophisticated diagnostic technique for exterior wind cold diseases. The book has 397 sections with 112 herbal prescriptions. The discussion is based on the Six Divisions: 1 The Six Divisions of the Shang Han Lun are:[3]
TAl YANG (greater yang): a milder stage with external symptoms of chills, fevers, stiffness, and headache. Therapy: sweating
YANG MING (yang brightness): a more severe internal excess yang condition with fever without chills, distended abdomen, and constipation. Therapy: cooling and eliminating
SHAO YANG (lesser yang): half outside, half inside half excess and half deficiency with chest discomfort, alternating chills, and fever. Therapy: harmonizing
TAl YIN (greater yin): chills, distended abdomen with occasional pain. Therapy: warming with supplementing.
SHAO YIN (lesser yin): weak pulse, anxiety, drowsiness, diarrhea, chills, cold extremities. Therapy: warming with supplementing
JUE YIN (absolute or reverting yin): thirst, difficult urination, physical collapse. Therapy: warming with supplementing
He also wrote Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber with 300 Cases.[4]
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- Shang Han Lun
- Compendium of Materia Medica
- Huang Di
- Chinese herbology
- Chinese patent medicine
- Traditional Japanese medicine (Kampo)
- Traditional Korean medicine
- Medicine
- Qigong
- Li Shizhen
- Zhang Zhongjing
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- ^ http://www.giovanni-maciocia.com/articles/flu.html
- ^ http://www.giovanni-maciocia.com/articles/flu.html
- ^ Shang Han Lun: On Cold Damage, Translation & Commentaries by Zhongjing Zhang, Feng Ye, Nigel Wiseman, Craig Mitchell, Ye Feng. Paradigm Press. 1999.
- ^ Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber with 300 cases by zhang zhongjing, luo xiwen New World Press, 1995
