Study On Disease Name Concept Of Febrile Disease

Febrile disease of Chinese Medicine is very important in the struggle against diseases history of human being. The concept of febrile disease is a very important part of febrile disease science, which play an indispensable role on the clinical and theoretical research. With social development, natural environment and disease spectrum constantly changes so do the occurrence of new epidemic diseases. So people hardly master connotation of febrile disease name because of its complexity and ambiguity, which restrict Chinese Medicine advantage on treating febrile disease. So synthetically analyzing and researching main disease name origin and concept connotation that may be beneficial to not only understand and enrich the theory of febrile disease but also play a significant role on preventing and treating new epidemic infectious diseases with Chinese Medicine .The thesis is focus on disease name concept of febrile disease by applying the method of philology, historiography etc to arrange 294 common disease names concept and classify them, select main disease names such as febrile disease,plague,instant febrile disease,latent evil febrile disease,pestilent abdominal disorder,epidemic throat disorder,virulent heat pathogen,pathogenic wind-dampness,spring epidemic febrile disease,summer epidemic febrile disease,dampness prevalent diseases,winter epidemic febrile disease,autumnal febrile disease,latent epidemic febrile disease and so on.Conclusion:1. Representative febrile disease names trace back before Song Dynasty. At that time febrile disease names and therapeutic methods still belonged to typhoid because febrile disease didn't detach from typhoid. Till Ming and Qing dynasty febrile disease name existed independently and formed system about syndrome and treatment theory.2.Febrile disease is general name of exogenous diseases that suffering damp-heat or warm-heat pathogenic evils. Its connotation include all exogenous fever diseases except typhoid. It is classified latent evil febrile disease and instant febrile disease according to pathogenesis, damp-heat febrile disease and warm-heat febrile disease according to pathogenic factor character, noncommunicable four seasons febrile disease and communicable plague disease according to transmissibility.3. "Cold plague" was understand and compared to "warm plague". This knowledge was developed from the regional typhoid diseases caused by the abnormal cold evil to the contagious disease caused by the pestilence. In fact, this kind of understanding enriched the etiology theory of plague and is part of the continuous development of the theory on disease caused by infectious pathogen.4. The development of febrile disease name was formed from single conception to multiple conceptions. Through arranging concept synonym and classificating medical practitioners during different periods have diversified cognition on disease named under the restriction of times. There are promoting factors on forming and developing febrile disease between name and theory.