Exploration Of The Treatise On Febrile Diseases, According To Those Theories And Concepts Of The Chinese Traditional Medicine And The Book Of Changes Are Similar

Treatise on Febrile Diseases states each article very clearly with brief content description, logic and dialectical thinking. Inherited a lot of medical thought from the Internal Canon of Medicine though, some of the content are quite different from it. The Book of Changes explores the ideas of Yin-Yang changes, advocates the unity of heaven and man with abundant dialectical philosophy ideas in it, thus making it the origin of Chinese traditional culture.Certain thoughts in Treatise on Febrile Diseases are closely connected with that in the Book of Changes, especially in terms of philosophy dialectics and analogy, which in turn have great impact on the connotation of Treatise on Febrile Diseases, particularly Etiology, pathology and treatment. This dissertation conducted research about those keys.The first chapter stated the origin and relation between Treatise on Febrile Diseases and the Book of Changes, relevant concepts and thoughts in the two for starters that stressed in holism and Yin-Yang changes, similarities in theories and concepts in the two books as demonstrated in Yin-Yang theory connection later and great resemblances in terms of thoughts an differentiation of the two in particular.The second chapter compared the point-making in Treatise on Febrile Diseases with key thoughts in the Book of Changes so to illustrate the correlation between etiology and pathology of the former and the idea of unity of man and nature of the latter, and to put forward the mutual thinking about conception of nature and time in both books as well as their influence on etiology and pathology. It also had discussion comparing vital energy and pathogenic factors in Treatise on Febrile Diseases with Yin-yang differentiation thoughts, put forward relation between medicine and Yin-yang with special exploration on the conception of Yin-Yang in both books.The third chapter mainly talked about holistic thinking in Treatise on Febrile Diseases and holism in the Book of Changes, which led to certain symptom development in the former and Taiji structure in the latter, development patterns in Taiji and Eight Diagrams with similar analogical thinking. Also, structuring concept of six-meridian syndrome differentiation in Treatise on Febrile Diseases was compared with Six-ridge structuring in the Book of Changes was proposed, as well as similar analogy between symptom differentiation and thinking, eight principal syndrome differentiation and Yin-Yang unity and opposites in the two books respectively, with specific reference to philosophic ideas of accidens, and application of eight principal syndrome differentiation and Yin-Yang unity and opposites.The fourth chapter explored the relevance between treatment principle in the former book and thought of supreme harmony in the latter book, with special argument about eight methods in Treatise on Febrile Diseases, importance of dynamic equilibrium and methods changing in terms of syndromes particularly, and ideas of neutralization and harmony in the Book of Changes, leading to relation between dynamic equilibrium and Shizhong in the latter book, and discussion regarding only by Yin-Yang balance can one cure the root of disease.The fifth chapter compared characters of Treatise on Febrile Diseases including differentiation, change, flexibility, strictness and briefness, with Sanyi, Bianyi, Buyi and Yijian in the Book of Changes,This paper studied Treatise on Febrile Diseases from connections between medicine and the Book of Changes and found some important discoveries regarding mutual rules in both books such as circularity, extremes meet, proximity, unity and opposites, and came to the conclusion that the idea of connecting medicine with the Book of Changes has certain mutual operability at thought and dialectical philosophy levels, especially in terms of holism, Yin-Yang changes, conception of nature, which will benefit future study of Treatise on Febrile Diseases.The Book of Changes is not about medicine. It cannot be used as direct guide for disease treatment, but for medical thinking, which can bring about innovative thinking to Treatise on Febrile Diseases, particularly for the ideas of analogical thinking, organic relation and advancing with the times, and can inspire future research of the book as well and thus more innovations are expected to Treatise on Febrile Diseases.