Study Of Professor Xiong Ji-bo's Diagnosis, Treatment And Prescribing Characteristics And Construct Of His Medical Cases Database System

Lots of traditional Chinese medicine herbalist doctors are very famous in the contemporary era. They represent the highest traditional medical level in China. Their theory and clinic experience represent characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine. It is necessary to research and summarize them, and make them known over a wide area through modern information technology tools.Professor Xiong Ji-bo is a famous doctor in Hunan province. He focuses on character and essence of pathological changes and focuses on position of pathological changes which in diagnosis and treatment, and emphasize symptom of tongue and pulse diagnosis. When prescribing, he persists on two principles: one is prescribing after diagnosis and treatment on the basis of an overall analysis of the illness and the patient's condition, the other is that every symptom must correspond with a primary formula. He is good at using all kinds of formulae. He uses classical formula and non-classical formula alternately, uses special formula and common formula integratively, uses internal medicine formulae and gynaecology formulae flexibly. He uses heavy formulae to handle critical illness, uses treatment by analysis on phlegm and silt to handle miscellaneous and difficult diseases, adjusts compatibility of medicines, dosage and form of prepared drugs of formula according to symptom, state of an illness and realistic condition. To common symptom, he increase or decrease medicine flexibly; to emergent diseases, he adds some fixed medicine to better treatment subtly; he uses some common medicine in some formulae skillfully to assist the primary formula.In order to learn Mr. Xiong's experience, we built a database system named "Medical Cases Database of Professor Xiong Ji-bo", which is a sub-system of "Famous Formulae and Medical Cases Database of Famous Doctors at All Time". This system stores clinic treatment information of Mr. Xiong, and some representative case histories. By using modern information technology, this system realized knowledge sharing and query online in Internet.