Experience of Consumptive Disease Treating Analysis of the Gushi Yijing / 浙江中医药大学学报

ABSTRACT

[Objective]To explore the consumptive disease treating experience in Gushi Yijing, written by Gu Songyuan who lived in the Qing Dynasty. [Methods]By studying consumptive disease related content in the book, discussing and summing up the consumptive disease treating experience. [Results] On the basis of pointing out seven kinds of error method that doctor treating consumptive disease at that time, Gu Songyuan put forward the opinion that consumptive disease was usual y caused by the internal injury of Zang and Fu organs which resulted into Yin deficiency as the main pathogenesis. The article contained other details as fol ows the basic symptoms of consumptive disease of the five internal organs, three main therapeutic methods on treatment of consumptive disease, the preference of nourishment combined drugs with food, habit of using some sweet and cold durgs which can clear heat, the use of flesh and blood of sentient beings and so on. So the key idea of this article focused on the method of nourishing Yin to enrich Jing and blood which could cure the consumptive disease effectively.[Conclusion]Gu Songyuan inherited predecessor ’s theory, analysed the etiology of consumptive disease of the five internal organs, pointed out Yin deficiency is the main pathogenesis, and then put forward the therapeutic method, which has some medical knowledge on modern clinic.