Differentiation and treatment of apoplexy syndrome during Jin,Yuan and Ming dynasty / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

The apoplexy was first formally proposed by Zhang Zhongjing in TCM.After extensive study of the medical researchers,its on causes,pathogenesis,diagnosis and treatment and prescription were developed.The cause and pathogenesis covered three stagesThe period of exopathic wind,endogenous wind and combination of internal and external wind.The knowledge of the cause and the pathogenesis of the apoplexy during Jing,Yuan and Ming dynasty focused on endogenous wind.The article reviews the medical researchers' understanding of the apoplexy's pathogenic rule from the review on classical literatures of this period.