"thirty-six" And The Evil Of Pathogenic Way

Researches of any professional subjects definitely included two important points:"researching into the origin" as one and "getting knowledge widely" as another. No deviation from the origin(so-called "the core thought") was allowed no matter how the academic development was evolving. Researching into the origin was a trace-back discussion for the core thought of any subjects. Various academic fields, despite how different their professional levels were, originated from the core thought. Based on the penetration of the core thought, these subjects could be relevant to each other in which to reach the effect of helping others in a mutual way. Therefore, in order to avoid overlooking, it was the major point of getting knowledge widely by gaining the essence through learning more different academic theories. Chinese medicine was also a professional subject. Its core thought originated from the traditional Chinese culture, such as the theory of Yin-Yang, the mutual generation or counteraction among the five elements, etc. Thus, it was the manifestation of researching into the origin and getting knowledge widely from the origin of the Chinese medicine to discover other professional subjects which inherited the traditional cultures. Based on this, the researcher selected ancient military theories as the study to hope to perfect the combination of Chinese Medicine and military in the development of the traditional medical theories.The "Thirty-six Stratagems", selected by the author, though only listed thirty-six stratagems, it connoted the overall thought of Sun Wu's "All warfare is based on deception." Therefore, it was no doubt that the "Thirty-six Stratagems" was honored as the wonderful works about military theories. However, referring to relevant literatures about modern Chinese Medicine using the "Thirty-six Stratagems", it was found that quite a few researchers put emphasis on the range of "Chinese Medicine illness curing science." Take the book "Thirty-six Stratagems and the science of Chinese Medicine" edited by Zhang jiemei for example, it basically manifested the thought of the combination of Chinese Medicine and military of Xu Lingtai's "Using drugs is like commanding soldiers" concept. But military strategists emphasized the concept of "If you know the enemy and know yourself, then you need not fear the result of every battle". Presumably we thought that during the process of the pathogenic factors infringing the human body, it was also utilizing stratagems to cause diseases. Various proofs were then presented. In other words, the "Thirty-six Stratagems" was like a double-edged sword. On one hand, it applied to analyze the thinking of the Chinese Medicine curing. On the other hand, it also described the pathogenic factors'disease modes as the study subject. It pondered on the way of solution to make traditional medicine better, either from the differentiation of syndromes to the determination of treatment, or from the enemies to the reinforcement. It could make it even better on the combination of the "Thirty-six Stratagems" its reference and utilization during the whole process.The "Thirty-six Stratagems" was still the compendium of this thesis. It was divided into six parts for discussion. They were "Stratagems When in a Superior position", "Stratagems for Confrontation", "Stratagems for Attack", "Stratagems for Confused Situations", "Stratagems for Gaining Ground" and "Stratagems for Desperate Situations." The major contents included concepts of analytical Chinese medicine's "Pseudo-deficiency Symptoms Appearing in an Extreme Excess Condition and Pseudo-excess Symptoms Appearing in an Extreme Deficiency Condition" through that of "Cross the Sea under Camouflage"; "Intense and Pathogenic Heat's" viewpoints of adverse environmental conditions of wind, cold, dryness, dampness, fire and summers-heat through that of "Borrow Others'Hand to Kill"; the relationship between "Probable Syndrome and Complications" of the science of disease and syndrome through that of "Loot a Burning House"; using "Creating Something out of Nothing" to interpret the occurrence of "Tumor and Cancer" in contemporary medicine; thinking of "sub-health" by using "sex trap" stratagem and utilizing "Making Use of a Series of Tactics" to describe individually the major theory of "Six kinds of Stagnancy" what Zhu Zhenheng was proclaiming. Other than these, major concepts of the four classics of Chinese Medicine—the science of "Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic", the science of "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", the science of "Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber" and the science of "Epidemic Febrile Diseases", combined with the contents of the "Thirty-six Stratagems", were analyzed in detail. Examples such as to explore the cause and effect of "Overjoy Leads to a Mild Situation of Heart-qi" mentioned in "Plain Questions" from "Hide a Dagger in a Smile"; to describe in general the analyses of the articles of "Taiyang fu-organ Disorder" in the "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" from "Palm Off a Substitute for the Real Thing"; to unify the concepts of women's "Invasion of Blood Chamber by Heat" mentioned in the "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" and "Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber" from "Lure the Tiger out of His Den"; to depict the logic of "Reverse Transmission to Pericardium" in the "Treatise on Epidemic Febrile Diseases" from "Capture the Ringleader First in Order to Capture All His Followers." Different from many literatures written before studying about Chinese medicine and the "Thirty-six Stratagems", it was focused on pondering on speculating in advance what the enemy will do, taking precautions against a calamity or mending the sheepfold after a sheep is lost in the pathogenic factors in order to seek a way of solution and eventually to make a contribution to the combination of Chinese Medicine and the military in the field of traditional medicine.It was thought that the prime characteristics of assisting dialectics of the art of war was to prevent the pathogenic factors from making further development, no matter what prevention first before the onset of disease or curing in time. It was to effectively keep the pathogenic factors from penetrating the human body. The major task of all these was to know the access of the pathogenic factors making further development. In the wisdom of the military, it was always the secret of winning to be able to keep control of what the enemy was going to do. It went the same to diagnosis that the disease could be cured earlier and the next move of the pathogenic factors could be correctly detected to stop the pathogenic factors from making further development. That was one of the commonest thoughts when the science of medicine practiced the theory of war. The "Thirty-six Stratagems" had such a result. According to the characteristics of each stratagem in the book, thirty-six commonly-seen diseases and related theories of traditional science of medicine in the science of diagnosis were presented in general to help interpret and explore the concepts of the science of war.By using "Pathogenesis", it was made to penetrate the main axis between the science of Chinese Medicine and the science of war.