Treating emergency and severe case by WU Pei-heng’s methods of warming yang and assisting yang / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

The academic thinking of WU Pei-heng derived from the theory of thinking highly of yang-qi in Inner Canon of Huangdi and the theory of waming yang to support vital qi in Treatise on Febrile Diseases. He considered that the yang-qi was the essence of the life, warming yang and assisting yang was the core of his academic thinking. He was good at using Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata with hige dosage. The 4 cases in this article proved the science and practicality of warming yang and assisting yang.