A summary commentary on academic achievement of Orthodox Manual of External Diseases / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

Orthodox Manual of External Diseases is a book giving an exhaustive description on various kinds of external and surgical disease,written by CHEN Shi-gong(1617),the author pay more attention to concept of wholism and syndrome differentiation.He provided the original view on the treatment of disease that combine internal with external therapy,needle with herbs.① All the external symptoms originates from internal causes and all diseases arisen from pathogenetic fire.Carbuncle definitely caused by visceral disorders,addiction to greasy diet,overstrain and exhaustion of sexual activities.② Based on occurrence and development of surgical disease,currency of ebb and flow between pathogenic factors and health qi,he provided three therapeutic methods for surgical disease including resolving,expelling from within,and reinforcing.③ He created and improved some surgical operation and provide the new therapeutic way that expelling the pathogenic factor by opening and drainage.④ He also believed that invigorating and regulating spleen and stomach,harmonizing qi and blood should be put in the first place when treating disease.