Theoretical Study On The Life Gate Theory And Clinical Research On The Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan Syndrome

The life gate theory is an important component of the Chinese medical theoretical system, which has the important value to the theoretical development and clinical practice of Chinese medicine. Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan, a famous Chinese medicine prescription, is from Zhang Zhongjing' Jin Gui Yao Lue, which is still used widely today. There are two parts in this thesis: one is the theoretical study on the life gate, the other is the clinical research on the Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan syndrome.Theoretical Study: The term life gate is first recorded in Nei Jing, and Nan Jing is the first text to mention the life gate theory. Based on the systematic collection and analysis on the previous academic documents about the life gate and the life gate theory, combining with the philosophical background the theory was produced, the thesis gives a comment on the academic origin of the life gate theory, an exploration of the theoretical essence of the life gate theory and a summarized elucidation about the life gate and its function. The life gate is the TaiJi of the human body and the origin of the human life. The shapeless congenital yin and yang are transformed from the Qi of TaiJi, and subsequently they produce the shaped acquired yin and yang. That is, first the life gate, then the five Zang-viscera; first the life gate, then the kidney. The congenital water and fire contained in the life gate being as the original substance basis and the foundational motivity sourse makes the life gate not being affiliated itself to the kidney, but the central organ directing the five Zang-viscera and controlling the whole body. The congenital water and fire contained in the life gate (original yin and original yang) can not be divided and the relationship between them is interdependent, not restricted. The shaped acquired fire can be restricted by the shaped acquired water, the shapeless congenital fire can be promoted by the shapeless congenital water. Being good at supplementing yang, the person must be acquainted with the rule of " seeking yang from yin", while being good at supplementing yin, the person must be familiar with the regulation of " seekingyin from yang" ......Of all academic opinions about the life gate theory, some have already beenaccepted by the Chinese medical scholars today. Modem researches indicated that the life gate is a very complicated system in the human body, whose functions are involved in many endocrine organs, such as hypothalamus, adrenal gland and sexual gland, and it also keeps in touch with central nervous system, vegetative nervous system, immune system and substance metabolism. So the study on the essence of the life gate should depend on showing its broad, important and regulating functions sufficiently. Furthermore, doing the research on integration and from multi-level, multi-system and multi-factor will be more persuasive to explore the essence of the life gate and to learn about the truth of the life gate.Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan is from Zhang Zhongjing' Jin Gui Yao Lue, which is a famous Chinese medicine prescription still widely used today in clinical practice. The intention of making the formula is mainly to treat the syndrome of kidney-qi deficiency, as we have known from the name of the prescription. But at present, warming and recuperating kidney yang are commonly recognized as the effects of Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan, and those people whose health are improved after taking the prescription are generally considered as the patients with syndrome of kidney yang deficiency. Therefore, summarizing the views of Schools of Chinese medical theories, by analyzing the therapeutic symptoms of Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan in Zhang Zhongjing' primary work, displaying the following doctors' various opinions about the intention of the prescription, the paper gives a new comment and recognition about the intention of the formula:The formula of Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan is a representative Chinese medicine prescription treating the decline of kidney-qi and the debilitation of the fire in the life gate rather than the sy...