Textual Research On The Names And Headstreams Of Symptoms And Signs In Huang Di's Canon Of Internal Medicine

The important materials are introduced about symptoms and signs in Qin and Han Dynasties' documentaries. Those documentaries are mainly on the basis of inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells, thirteen classics, dictionary including many medical knowledge, The Classic of Mountains and Rivers, Historical Records, 52 Bingfang, symptoms and signs of diseases. The contents about symptoms and signs in Huang Di's Canon of Internal Medicine are compared with those in above documentaries. The headstreams of some names of disease are researched textually such as malaria, flaccid paralysis, faint, jaundice, heat-symptom-complex, insane, madness, epilepsy, carbuncle, pestilent lesions in order to ensuring the role and significance of Huang Di's Canon of Internal Medicine. According to the continent generalization and dissimilation of lexical meanings in Huang Di's Canon of Internal Medicine, some words meanings such as apoplexy, diabetes, dysentery, insane, madness, epilepsy, flaccid paralysis, faint have been compare with the current knowledge and relative western medicine in order to confirming the original meanings in Huang Di's Canon of Internal Medicine and providing the references for TCM terms standardization.