Study on Combined Prescriptions / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

Even though a single prescription may be applied in different treatments, it may not be effective in treating patients with complex conditions. In cases like this, the problem can only be solved through the expanding of medicines in a prescription. Because a new prescription is not easy to create, the usage of adding another or more appropriate prescriptions into the prescription can be considered to expand the curative effects. The existing prescriptions were left by the confirmation of their curative effects from clinical tests which made by doctors of several generations. Therefore, the combination of prescriptions is a method which is convenient and easy to control the curative effects. By analogical reasoning, prescription user often uses a single prescription as a basic unit to generate the combined prescriptions from the existing corresponding prescription. It follows the rule of treatment based on syndrome differentiation to take a dynamic adjustment for complex symptoms. Disease with multiple major symptoms is the main basis for a doctor to use combined prescriptions. The combination of different prescriptions may produce the curative effects of addition, reinforcement, antagonism, or even new effects. Since traditional prescriptions have experienced many years of clinical tests, doctors who utilize traditional prescriptions actively will have more methods and ways to treat diseases.