"Treatment of Syndrome Differentiation for Consumptive Diseases Based on the Theory of""Rise and Fall of Middle Qi"" by HUANG Yuan-yu" / 中国中医药信息杂志

ABSTRACT

The famous TCM doctor, HUANG Yuan-yu, proposed the theory of rise and fall of middle qi, which was a main academic ideology for the understanding of human physiology and pathology. He believed that rise and fall of middle qi played an important role in qi-blood and yin-yang and normal operation of five zang viscera. He also emphasized that there was an important relationship between the consumptive diseases and function damage of other viscera caused by imbalance of middle qi. Based on the theory of rise and fall of middle qi, this article discussed its guiding function to the treatment of syndrome differentiation for consumptive diseases, with a purpose to provide new ideas for clinical treatment.