Professor Zhang Fa rang, a tutor, has engaged in teaching, scientific research and clinical work for 40 years and has made many achievements therein. This research paper systemizes, on the relatively comprehensive basis, the research on his primary academic ideas, which includes 6 aspects, say, 1) comprehensively preventing diabetes, giving priority to prevention, actively universalizing the scientific knowledge of diabetes prevention as well as stressing administering prescriptions according to the differentiation of syndromes and signs that possess the characteristics of the Traditional Chinese Medicine. 2) Advocating preventing and treating Ceiebropathy and the diseases or problems specific to the aged by the methods of tonifying the kidneys and invigorating the circulation of blood, i.e. selecting drugs and preparing the Brain Invigorator (Capsules) to treat Vascular Dementia. 3) Vigorously advocating combining, according to the differentiation of syndromes and signs, the restoring prescriptions for typhoid fevers and that for blast to treat the external-caused fevers, supposing that the typhoid fever incorporates the blast and the relationships between the typhoid fever and blast are of inheritance and development, as well as that the typhoid fevers and blast must be treated on the integrated basis to found a new therapeutics for external-caused fevers. 4) The clinical prescriptions epitomize the basic skills and stress the dosages and the medicine decocting and taking methods, pay attention to the taste of the medicines to protect the Gastric Qi, alternate the prescriptions to avoid the patients' discomfort, apply the methods ofsupporting healthy energy to eliminate evils in treating external-caused fevers and stroke at its acute stage, absorb achievements in modern medicines, pay attention to the side-effects of the Chinese herbal medicine and master how to apply them properly. He is both bold and careful in the use of virulent Chinese medicine. He weed through the old and bring forth the new, administers prescriptions according to the physiological characteristics of the Zhang and Fu (or viscera), applies the traditional methods ingeniously and flexibly. The prescription combinations for the internal-injury-caused miscellaneous diseases often follow the Xie xin tang principles of the Sang Han Nun (or Treatise on Cold-induced Febride Diseases). 5) Being versed in but not sticking to the conventions, administering treatment by ascertaining the causes, imitating but not sticking to the ancient, closely integrating theories and practices. 6) Paying attention to clinical psychology and stressing that doctors should study the knowledge of clinical psychology and attach importance to clinical psychotherapy. And, the tutor's lifelong rich and profound academic ideas need to be further systemized and researched and, to be perfected step by step. |