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Chao Yuan-fang's The Origin and Indicators of Disease(Zhu Bing Yuan Hou Lun) established a foundation for the treatment for impotence from the kidney.Most doctors in all the past dynasties thought that impotence was mainly caused by the kidney vacuity.Some doctors in the Jin and Ming dynasties treated impotence from the liver.In the Qing dynasty,Chen Shi-duo treated impotence from the heart and Han Shan-zheng treated impotence by nourishing yin.The article considers that impotence should be treated from the kidney vacuity,liver depression and blood stasis with the age,constitution,occupation aad region of the patients according to the common patterns of impotence in the modern times.
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Biological, psychological and sociological model of medicine substantializes the old model lacking the social humane attributes. The new medical model makes people take medical anthropology into research and highly evaluate traditional medical system. Cultural anthropology of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is part of medical anthropology with three major characteristics: wide research scope, specificity, and integration. It has developed its own research methods, such as field investigation, comprehensive inspection and comparison study. Cultural anthropology provides an efficient research method for TCM, and its application would further develop TCM theory and form comprehensive evaluation on TCM effects.
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Doctors in history always payed attention to yang qi in chest obstruction with pain theorectically and clinically,because yang defi ciency of fi ve viscera may cause chest obstruction with pain,method of supporting yang should be adopted in treating angina pectoris.According to symptoms some concrete treatment should be taken,such as warming yang for dispelling cold,benefi ting qi and reinforcing yang,relieving obstruction of yang and dredging channel blockage,restoring yang and rescuing patient from collapse,dispersing stagnated yang for relieving qi stagnation,and so on.