The Origin And Development Of Shanghan And Warm Disease

There are two different school of thoughts in heat disease of Traditional Chinese Medicine.They are Shanghan School and the school of warm diseases.All the heat diseases are called Shanghan in Qin and Han Dynasties.Shanghan is considered to be the reason of heat diseases in Neijing.There are five names of Shanghan in Nanjing.And Shang Han Lun is a monograph on Shanghan.A debate between Shanghan and warm disease is start in Jin and Tang Dynasties period.Chen Yanzhi opposes the view that all the heat diseases are named Shanghan.He think all the heat diseases must be separated. And he realizes the importance of warm pathogen.Many TCM scientists begin to make improvements to the theory of Shanghan in Song and Yuan Dynasties.Han Zhihe first proposes to resolve superficies syndrome with pungent and cool natured drugs.Pang Anshi put cool natured drugs into Zhang Zhongjing's prescriptions.During this period the concept of warm diseases has evolved.Zhu Gong considers that the warm diseases also have superficies syndrome. Guo Yong considers that all the heat diseases occurred in spring are called warn diseases.In Ming Dynasty,Wang Andao considers that the range of applying the theory of Shanghan must be restrict in winter.He against treat the warm diseases with the theory of Shanghan.So the Shanghan School shrinks back.Many other Schools replace its position.Zhang Fengkui pay attention to the summer heat and Wu Youke pay attention to the plague.In Qing Dynasty,Ye Tianshi establishs the theory of "defense, qi, nutrient and blood pattern identification".Wu Jutong establishs the syndrome differentiation of sanjiao theory.At this point the Theory of Epidemic Febrile Diseases is Established.In summary,the heat diseases is constitute by Shanghan and warm diseases. Shanghan School and the school of warm diseases has advantages and shortcomings each.If we take the two theories together,we can do better when we treat with heat diseases.