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Meridian guide theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an experience summary of pharmacologists in past dynasties, which develops together with the meridian theory, and plays a pivotal role in guiding the rational clinical application. In recent years, many researchers have been devoted to the study of meridian guide theory and have obtained some substantive progress. Based on the idea of tracing origin and seeking innovation, the theoretical origin and modern research are taken as the thread, the emergence is summarized and analyzed; And the construction and application of meridian guide theory, as well as research progress in the past five years are reviewed in this paper, with a view to provide positive help for the standardized use of meridian guide medicine, and also provide reference for the further study of the effect of meridian guide medicine.
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Medicinal theory of Chinese materia medica (CMM) is an important part of theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicines (TCM). “Five flavors” as one of the core contents of medicinal theory, its effect on ensuring the accuracy of rational clinical drug use can’t be ignored. However, compared with “four natures”, the correlation between the properties and its clinical function among the five flavors is relatively loose, which is mainly derived from the mixture of the real tastes of herbs and their deductive properties of five flavors derived from their clinical function. Based on this, taking the “spice flavor”, one of the five flavors, as the research object to summarize the generation and construction process of its medicinal theory as well as the progress of modern research and so on, by which to clarify the origin of spicy flavor and the traditional understanding of medicinal theory of CMM, with a view to provide new research ideas and patterns for the modern research of the medicinal properties of CMM.
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The article made a study on the earliest literature and the initial time of the "Five Orbiculi" theory in TCM. By analyzing the masons for different locations of "Five Orbiculi" recorded in ancient TCM books, the author argued against that the term of "Five Orbiculi" originated from ancient India and the "Five Orbiculi" theory was a product with the combination of traditioinal Chinese and Indian cultures. The author further put forward that the "Five Orbiculi" theory most probably was a Chinese traditional medical innovation under the influence of Internal Classic of Medicine, a great development to the theory recorded in Miraculous Pivot On Serious Confusion.