The development and thinking of the pattern and treatment for impotence / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

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.