ZHU Zongyuan's Experience on Treating Yin Essence Deficiency from Five Internal Organs / 中医杂志

ABSTRACT

This paper summarized Professor ZHU Zongyuan's clinical experience in applying the treatment method of nourishing yin. Professor ZHU attaches great importance to the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine classic theory to prescription. He is good at combining self-made empirical prescription with classical formulas， and applying the five treatment methods， including clearing and moistening lung yin with sweet-cold medicinals， nourishing stomach yin with sweet-cold medicinals， nourishing kidney yin with sweet-cold medicinals， enriching liver and subduing yang with normal salty medicinals， enriching and astringing heart yin with sour-cold medicinals. In addition， advocating the use of small doses of medicinals in groups can avoid the disadvantages of yin-nourishing medicinals encumbering the spleen and reduce the damage caused by long-term administration， but also easy to handle the cold-heat-warm-cool property of prescriptions， and ensure that the circulation of the qi movement when the five viscera's yin essence to be nourished.