Study On Warming Therapy In Treaties On Febrile Diseases

"Thermotherapy" is a treatment for cold syndrome with medicines of warm and hot nature.It is one of the "eight therapeutic methods".Cold-pathogen is one of the "six exopathic factors".In the olden days of Eastern Han, people think that cold-pathogen was the main cause of many diseases,therefore,cold syndrome had become the main research by a lot of medical scientists,and thermotherapy was commonly used.But after the Ming and Qing Dynasties,the existance of the science of epidemic febrile disease of traditional Chinese medicine was so popular that the cold syndrome and thermotherapy is neglected.People nowadays prefer to use cool and cold method and also cold-natured herbs.They are lacking in the cold-deficiency syndrome thinking and the usage of the thermotherapy.Shang Han Lun(Treatise on Febrile Diseases) is a classic book with brilliant achievements and important value in development history of Traditional Chinese Medicine, that must be read by every Chinese physician and the elements in the Shang Han Lun are mostly about thermotherapy.Till today,people still regard this book as a monograph.The thesis uses the following to discuss thermotherapy of Shang Han Lun:1.discuss the importance "yang qi".2.defination of cold syndrome.2.1.Etiologic and pathogenic factors of cold syndrome.2.2.main clinical characteristic of cold syndrome.3.importance of thermotherapy in Shang Han Lun.4.discuss on the basis of thermotherapy in Shang Han Lun.5.Segregate Shang Han Lun decoction into 10 types,namely rescuing.from collapse by restoring Yang method,warming and replenishing heart yang method,warming Middle-Jiao to dispel cold method,warming lung to reduce watery phlegm method,warming liver to dispel cold method,warming yang to induce diuresis method,warming yang and balance weiqi method,warming yang and relieving exterior syndrome method,warming yang and arresting discharge method,expelling pathogentic cold from channel and expelling wind and removing damness method.All these mentioned-above compare,systemize,analyze,compatible,decoct and consume.6.Summation of thermotherapy in Shang Han Lun in terms of usage and constraints.7.Explain the following:(1)《Synopsis of Prescription of the Golden Chamber》characteristics of thermotherapy(2) explain the usage and development of thermotherapy by various dynasty physicians(3) usage of thermotherapy in the disease caused by Pathogenic Warmth(4) modern mechanism of Action in thermotherapy8.discuss thermotherapy in the modern age of predominance and future expectation.